CONCEPTUALIZING URBICIDE: SPACE, MEMORY, WAR, AND NECROPOLITICS

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2023-10

Author

Bekiroğlu, Sibel

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This study is an attempt to specify the limits of the urban and wonders what happens if it is transcended through destruction. Urbicide is a conceptual tool put forward by urban planners, architects, and researchers to understand the new urban situation that emerges as a result of the destruction of the urban fabric through war. Although this conceptual tool provides great convenience in defining this new situation that emerges in the war zones of the globe, it has been incomplete in terms of providing a systematized definition. This thesis presents a seminal and noteworthy contribution to the extant literature by offering an exhaustive study of the notion of urban genocide. The study delves deep into four major constituents of the concept, namely, space, time, constitutive violence, and power relations. The purpose of this research is to gain an in-depth understanding of the urban phenomena observed in these areas of destruction, utilizing sociological methodologies rooted in the established body of literature on urbicide. In this context, the focus of the thesis will be solely on the matter of urban fabric destruction and violence, specifically examining the impact on collective memory resulting from a necropolitical approach.

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Urbicide, memory, rhythmanalysis, war, necropolitics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105500

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis