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2022-3-14

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Toprak, İsmail Ömer

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The contradictory location of intellectual labor today brings before us a picture in which they are being dragged into two contradictory directions. On the one hand qualified/educated labor widely experiences some form of deprofessionalisation and precarization in different sectors. On the other hand, there occurs another debate that ignores all this reality. It is emphasized by the predictions of creative class over cities that the same qualified labor has become the engine of urban growth in today’s world. This imagination insists that attracting qualified workforce into the cities is now the prerequisite for urban growth. The conditions we face pose a difficult question as to how we can relate these two different worlds depicted to the world we experience. Departing from this point, this thesis aims to give a partial answer to this question by revealing these contradictory conditions created by neoliberal policies and urbanization agendas while focusing on the working life conditions of young architects who have recently graduated from different universities in Turkey. This thesis emphasizes that while deprofessionalisation is a norm in the world of new graduates of architecture, nevertheless the hope of becoming a member of strata of so-called creative class is a driving force among the young professionals and in that respect such a prospect could play a vital role in the reproduction of educational and professional fields which produce deprofessionalisation and precarization.

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Creative Class, Deprofessionalisation, Precarization, Young Architects, Architecture Education

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96661

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis