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Gedikpaşa :|a neighborhood shaped by the footwear market

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.
dc.contributor.advisor Yazıcı, Berna.
dc.contributor.author Tanış, Rabia Irmak.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-22T04:20:36Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-22T04:20:36Z
dc.date.issued 2019.
dc.identifier.other HTR 2019 T35
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/20195
dc.description.abstract This thesis focuses on a space of economic production, trade and labor. It examines Gedikpaşa, a neighborhood in the city of Istanbul’s historical peninsula and its informal footwear market, which consists of small-scale and labor intensive shoe manufacturers, wholesalers of shoes and leather and material suppliers. The study builds on a field research and twenty-four in-depth interviews conducted with a range of economic actors in Gedikpaşa’s informal market. The study draws on the literature on informal markets by highlighting the significance of social networks and trust relationships in the constitution of the market. It also seeks to contribute to urban studies on Istanbul by bringing a space of economic activity rather than residential areas to the center of analysis. The thesis argues that Gedikpaşa’s footwear market and economic actors have been transformed by the unpredictable, changing socio-economic conditions and macro political dynamics since the market’s emergence in the 1960s. This thesis seeks to demonstrate, to survive against these changing conditions and dynamics economic actors have generated defense mechanisms allowed by the flexibility of informality. In doing so, they have ensured the continuation of the Gedikpaşa footwear market until today.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019.
dc.subject.lcsh Shoe industry -- Turkey -- İstanbul -- Employees.
dc.title Gedikpaşa :|a neighborhood shaped by the footwear market
dc.format.pages xiii, 129 pages ;


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