Turkey
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Green grabbing: A new form of appropriation
CASAS’ member, Duygu Avci, has published this paper in English and Turkish with Fikret Adaman, Hande Paker, and Gökçe Yeniev. Abstract: In traditional land grabbing, an area is expropriated under the pretext of “common good. ”It is then typically sold or leased to for profit enterprises. You are left without your land, your home, or…
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Seasonal migrant farm workers at the nexus of production and social reproduction in contemporary Turkey
CASAS’ members, Sinem Kavak & Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy have published this article in Agriculture and Human Values. Abstract: This paper examines seasonal migrant farmworkers in Turkey, focusing on the intersection of relations of production and social reproduction under rapidly shifting land and labour regimes. The workers are predominantly Kurds and Arabs of Turkey and…
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Who is who in CASAS? Deniz Pelek
Deniz Pelek is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at İzmir Democracy University in Türkiye. She received her PhD degree from the Atatürk Institute at Boğaziçi University and the Geopolitical Institute at Paris-8 University (2019) within the framework of the double doctoral degree programme (cotutelle). Her research interests are critical agrarian studies, migration…
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Agricultural production and COVID-19 disease in Turkey: emergent contradictions and solidarities
by Deniz Pelek Turkey announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on 11 March 2020, relatively later than many other countries. Several precautions were taken gradually for preventing the spread of the virus. Schools and universities were closed and distance education started; a travel ban was imposed to most countries where the number of COVID-19…