NETWORK OF ACTORS AND POLITICS OF POSITION IN INTERVENING HERITAGE PLACES IN ANTAKYA, HATAY

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2025-7

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Tuğrul, Selen

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Heritage places are dynamic environments shaped by human and non-human influences, affected by time and subject to ongoing negotiation among cultural, economic, and political forces. This complexity intensifies in multi-layered and multicultural urban contexts, where divergent interpretations, stakeholder positions, and temporal forces complicate conservation interventions. Antakya, with its rich and continuous urban history, exemplifies such a setting. Over time, its diverse heritage has been subject to fragmented interventions, often reflecting the conflicting values, expectations, and interests of actors with differing socio-cultural backgrounds, spatial affiliations, and power relations. These challenges were further amplified following the devastating earthquakes of February 2023, which radically altered the relationship between people and place, disrupted existing value systems, and reconfigured networks of heritage governance. In this context, Antakya has emerged as an accelerated urban laboratory to examine the mechanisms behind the success or failure of heritage conservation interventions. The post-disaster landscape offers a unique opportunity to critically explore how various actors reposition themselves and mobilize their networks in response to shifting conditions. This research claims that conservation interventions are shaped by complex interactions among people, places, objects, and practices, where the mobilization of resources is deeply influenced by actors’ values, capacities, and relational dynamics. By identifying measurable causes leading to fragmented/holistic approaches, shared/conflicting values, and sufficient/insufficient capacities, this study aims to contribute to the development of more integrated and context-sensitive heritage. Ultimately, it offers critical insights into how heritage conservation can more effectively engage with the complexities inherent in multilayered and multicultural urban environments.

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Antakya, urban conservation, actor network, stakeholders, post disaster

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115440

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis