CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Goksen, Tomris Ozge |
|---|---|
| Title | Neoliberal Urban Restructuring Accelerated: Gentrification in Karakoy, Istanbul |
| Summary | The present study examines the case of a recently gentrified commercial neighborhood in a central area in Istanbul, Karaköy. For three years, the neighborhood has been witnessing the process of gentrification as the neighborhood started to host cultural classes and large businesses, while displacing the former small businesses. Based upon my fieldwork in Karaköy, I reached the conclusion that the process took place in a short period of time and without any opposition owing to the restructuring mechanisms that enabled appropriation of the built environment through negotiation. In parallel with this conclusion, in this thesis I focus on the long term small businesses in Karaköy. By this, I investigate the mechanisms that enabled gentrification to take place through negotiation as a result of the neglected positionality of the small businesses in the process of urban remaking. The study contributes to the gentrification debate by suggesting an undermined angle on its research and proposes the reading of it as a systematically accelerated and facilitated; but subjectively and locally experienced process. My findings are largely based on interviews that I conducted with the long-term small businesses, which are subjected to displacement from the neighborhood. All in all, I argue that the case reveals the extent of the neoliberal restructuring processes that positions and neglects the insignificant actors in the urban remaking, which displays the systematic, rapid and accelerated transformation of the urban neighborhoods in globalized cities. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel; Zentai, Violetta |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/goksen_tomris-ozge.pdf |
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