State Stigmatisation in Urban Turkey: Managing the "Insurgent" Squatter Dwellers in Dikmen Valley
State Stigmatisation in Urban Turkey: Managing the "Insurgent" Squatter Dwellers in Dikmen Valley
复制标题
土耳其城市中的国家污名化：管理迪克门谷的“叛乱”棚户区居民
作者：
Yardimci Ö
本文通过研究国家在领土污名中所扮演的角色来解释领土污名化，土耳其是一个国家权力日益增长的国家。现有的辩论主要局限于它作为一种经济战略的作用，通过让工人阶级和地方贬值来为资本积累铺平道路。通过对政治演讲、地方通讯和主流全国性报纸的文本分析，以及包括对迪克曼山谷的采访和观察的田野调查材料，我论证了国家对“问题人群”的概念针对的是“叛乱者”，而不是“无利可图的”群体。在迪克门山谷，一些棚户区社区动员起来，反对政府强制实施的城市改造项目。在城市环境中，耻辱的作用是激发人们满足国家而不是市场认为合适的模式的愿望。从这一点出发，我认为污名被用作国家主导的政治战略，这是土耳其日益增长的威权主义不可或缺的组成部分。
This paper contributes to the accounts of territorial stigmatisation by examining the state role in it in the case of Turkey, a country that suffers from growing state power. The existing debates are mainly restricted to its function as an economic strategy paving the way for capital accumulation through devaluing working‐class people and places. Drawing on textual analysis of political speeches, local newsletters and mainstream national newspapers and fieldwork material that include interviews and observations in Dikmen Valley where some squatter communities mobilised against the state‐imposed urban transformation project, I demonstrate that state conceptualisation of “problem people” targets the “insurgent” rather than the “unprofitable” groups. Stigma in urban settings functions in inciting the desire to meet the patterns deemed appropriate by the state, rather than the market. Moving from that, I argue that stigma is used as a state‐led political strategy, which is integral to the growing authoritarianism in Turkey.