Makeshift Publicity

In the case of Kayseri, this analysis, which deals with the municipal practice under the management of political cadres coming from the "National View" tradition, can actually be read on several levels. First of all, of course, an analysis of Islamist municipalism: Conservative space production policy and urban image... Local class-social alliance structure... Traditional notables and the rising 'new bourgeoisie'... Charitable aid policy that 'tempts' the urban poor... .And the success of this policy in articulating with neoliberalism. Temporary Publicity conceptualizes the results of exactly this synthesis. Ali Ekber Dogan's book can also be read as a general overview of the economic-political history of local governments in Turkey. Again, in the example of Kayseri, a meticulous analysis of the process extending from the Single Party government to the DP-AP line, to the ANAP experience after September 12, to social democratic administrations and from there to Islamist municipalism, "the neoliberal line of which became evident in its second term". In this change, the comparison between the "productive municipalism" movement of the CHP in the 1970s and the SHP experience of the 1989-94 period is of great importance. The conceptual plane is also important in itself. The author bases his analysis on the fundamental political difference between seeing the city as an exchange value (an object of rent and marketing) and a use value (a place and relationship network where life will be reproduced). It shows the damage caused by the increasing dominance of the first one. In terms of the analysis of "Turkish conservatism", traces worth following can be found in the book. Road traces meeting with the pragmatism that lies behind the "merchant from Kayseri" cliché... Besides all this, this is a book about Kayseri. This ancient trade center of Central Anatolia cannot become a modern city. A book about your adventure...



Number of Pages: 288

Year of Printing: 2007


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Yayincilik

Number of Pages: 288

First Edition Year: 2007

Language: Turkish