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2011

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Kaçar, Duygu

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Atatürk Forest Farm is a unique spatial practice representing the main philosophy of the Turkish Republic. This private farm of Mustafa Kemal was established in 1925, with the goals of creating a new society by bringing together modern agricultural and industrial production techniques, combining them with leisure activities and developing an urban farm. Consequently, Forest Farm is discussed neither as a land problem nor as a heritage issue in the present paper. Its being is evaluated as a conscious contribution for the cultural transformation of the Turkish nation. Therefore, its genesis is elaborated in relation to the main definitions of culture in history: 1. ‘cultivating nature’ with the idea of increasing the efficiency in products and lands. 2. ‘cultivation of minds’ in relation to the education of human beings’. 3. the ‘process of social development’. 4. ‘meanings, values, ways of life’. 5. ‘practices which produce meanings’ (Bocock, 1992, 234) and finally 6. the meshing of anthropological views linking the two definitions of ‘a way of life’ and ‘the production of meaning’ as ‘a network of representations’ (Frow and Morris, 1993, viii). All the ideologies and scientific knowledge are mentioned in addition to clarify this main argument. Thus, ideology, space and production are the complementary discussions to the main argument, culture. As an overall structure, the findings and conclusions will be given sequentially under the definitions of culture.

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Culture, Agri-culture, Production, Education, Development, Civilization, Meaning, Representation, Spatial practice, Atatürk Forest Farm

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http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2011/cilt28/sayi_1/165-178.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50799

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