Territorial Stigmatisation: Urban Renewal and Displacement in a Central Istanbul Neighbourhood (Culture and Social Practice)

Territorial Stigmatisation: Urban Renewal and Displacement in a Central Istanbul Neighbourhood (Culture and Social Practice)
by: Constanze Letsch (Author)
Publisher:transcript publishing
Publication Date: August 1, 2023
Language:English
Print Length:306 pages
ISBN-10:3837666883
ISBN-13:9783837666885
Book Description
In Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalised residents speak about belonging, stigma, and what their community means to them. Based on a long-term ethnographic study that includes interviews, photographs, and archival research, Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatisation is weaponised by the state and how differently stigmatised groups try to fight against the vilification of their neighbourhood. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio-demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades.
About the Author
In Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalised residents speak about belonging, stigma, and what their community means to them. Based on a long-term ethnographic study that includes interviews, photographs, and archival research, Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatisation is weaponised by the state and how differently stigmatised groups try to fight against the vilification of their neighbourhood. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio-demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades. Read more