A critical inquiry on the mode of production of informal fabric and their reflections on built environments: a Romani community at Izmir Ege neighbourhood

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This dissertation elaborates on the socio-spatial analysis of a Roma Community, through the dialectical relation between labour and the circuit of capital. The neighbourhood faced socio-spatial transformations in the last century, along with Turkey's political and economic transformation. It emerged before the Republican Era, turned into a Roma community with the population exchange. Following Turkey’s industrialisation, urbanisation and de-industrialisation period, the urban fabric of the neighbourood faced several transformations, evolving from a tin-can area to a working-class neighbourhood, then turning into a marginal setting. The labour force and urban interventions became pioneer factors in transforming the built environment as political and economic conjuncture changed. The rapid industrialization transformed the community into a labour force and this was later supported by social housing project. In the de-industrialisation phase of the country, the community affected by the change in labour practice and the urban interventions of the urban regeneration and New City Center projects. The thesis re-frames these historical transformations concerning labour practice to discuss the urbanisation of the capital by carrying outethnographic research, in-depth semi-structured interviews, and archival work to present spatial narratives and historical transformation of space. Drawing from an epistemological stance analysing the circuit of capital and transformation of labour practice, I focus on the dialectical relation between transformation of the land and change in labour force. The transformation of urban space and labour economy through socio-political, historical, and temporal contextualisation cannot be ontologically separated from the broader paradoxes in Turkey’s history. Thus, this thesis also aims to draw a relational framework from the national economic crisis using the Roma neighbourhood of İzmir as a case study.

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Circuit of capital, Ege neighbourhood, Labour practice, Roma community

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102530

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M. M. Cin, “A critical inquiry on the mode of production of informal fabric and their reflections on built environments: a Romani community at Izmir Ege neighbourhood,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.