An urban political ecological analysis of the Canal Istanbul Project

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2023-12

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Tütüncüoğlu, Fatma Merve

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The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the planned Canal Istanbul Project from the perspective of Marxist urban political ecology by examining it around the theme of the reproduction of urban life. The reproduction and reproduction of urban life are used in the research in two different but interrelated contexts. While the first context refers to the multifaceted process by which labor and capital produce themselves as social classes in the urban environment, the second context, inspired by David Harvey's "right to the city" discussions, is used to express the reproduction of urban life in terms of the class-based inequalities that the urbanization process relies on and reproduces. In the research, the definition of the city is taken as a process within socio-environmental metabolisms inspired by Swyngedouw, and it is tried to understand how the planned project will prevent the reproduction of urban life in Istanbul. Another attempt to make sense of the project is made through the political struggles that took place during the planning phase of the project. Here, the opinions and reports of experts and civic organizations are included.

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Marxist urban political ecology, Urban metabolism, Accumulation by dispossession, Spatial fix, The right to the city

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/107671

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis