Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A BIAA-I.B.Tauris Series Joint Online Book Launch with Eray Çaylı, Pınar Aykaç and Sevcan Ercan.
Challenging existing political analyses of the state of emergency in Turkey, this volume argues that such states are not merely predetermined by policy and legislation but are produced, regulated, distributed and contested through the built environment in both embodied and symbolic ways. Contributors use empirical critical-spatial research carried out in Turkey over the past decade, exploring discourses and practices of heritage conservation, processes of displacement and imaginaries and measures associated with disasters. Contributing to the broader literature on the related concepts of exception, risk, crisis and uncertainty, the book discusses the ways in which these phenomena shape and are shaped by the built environment, and provides context-specific empirical substance to this discussion by focusing on contemporary Turkey. In so doing, it offers nuanced insight into the debate around emergency as well as into recent urban-architectural affairs in Turkey.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/online-book-launch-architectures-of-emergency-heritage-displacement-and-catastrophe
A BIAA-I.B.Tauris Series Joint Online Book Launch with Eray Çaylı, Pınar Aykaç and Sevcan Ercan.
Challenging existing political analyses of the state of emergency in Turkey, this volume argues that such states are not merely predetermined by policy and legislation but are produced, regulated, distributed and contested through the built environment in both embodied and symbolic ways. Contributors use empirical critical-spatial research carried out in Turkey over the past decade, exploring discourses and practices of heritage conservation, processes of displacement and imaginaries and measures associated with disasters. Contributing to the broader literature on the related concepts of exception, risk, crisis and uncertainty, the book discusses the ways in which these phenomena shape and are shaped by the built environment, and provides context-specific empirical substance to this discussion by focusing on contemporary Turkey. In so doing, it offers nuanced insight into the debate around emergency as well as into recent urban-architectural affairs in Turkey.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/online-book-launch-architectures-of-emergency-heritage-displacement-and-catastrophe
