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From gecekondu to apartmankondu: economic transformation of the squatter settlers of Rumeli Hisarüstü from 1960 onward

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Economics.
dc.contributor.advisor Özar, Şemsa.
dc.contributor.author Özdabak, İrfan.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:00:40Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:00:40Z
dc.date.issued 2010.
dc.identifier.other EC 2010 O83
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16419
dc.description.abstract In this study the primary and secondary transformation of the economic lives of the squatter settlers of Rumeli Hisarüstü in line with the building up of gecekondu/ gunduzkondu/ apartmankondu from 1960 onwards, the impact of the neoliberal policies in the world and specifically in Turkey on this transformation process, and the modifying role of the Bogazic;i University and its students is analyzed utilizing a qualitative research methodology by directing open-ended and semi-structured interview questions to the respondents selected through a judgmental and purposive sampling from the population of Rum eli Hisariistii as well as through participant observation. The squatter settlers of Rumeli Hisarüstü have gone through a process of acculturation with the outcomes of assimilation, integration, marginality and separation at different levels. When the primary and secondary economic transformation process is viewed and analyzed within a dialectical socio-economic and historical continuum, the empirical evidence suggests that, contrary to the prevailing understanding on the social exclusion thesis with regard to the squatter settlements due to the global neo-liberal policies, Rumeli Hisarüstü squatter settlement is rather integrated into the system containing the prototype of the neoliberal economic relations and transformation within itself and at the same time giving rise to a minor urban underprivileged class. This economic transformation also paved the way for the transformation of Rumeli Hisarüstü squatter settlers' economic ideologies, forming a new Rumeli Hisarüstü identity.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Squatter settlements -- Turkey.
dc.subject.lcsh Urbanization -- Economic aspects.
dc.title From gecekondu to apartmankondu: economic transformation of the squatter settlers of Rumeli Hisarüstü from 1960 onward
dc.format.pages ix, 253 leaves ;


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