This study explores how early career academics negotiate precarity in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom under the amplified uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our preliminary findings based on the semi-structured interviews with nine early career academics (six women and three men) shed light on varying experiences of early career academic precarity with regard to working and life routines, and their participation in the job market. We argue that early career academics' gender, employment status, and their university affiliations influence the degree to which they are able to instrumentalise and negotiate precarity during the pandemic in the UK.
This paper will focus on the renovation and regeneration projects, and also on the gentrification concept in regards to neoliberal urban politics in the historic neighbourhoods of Istanbul. How neoliberal urban politics affect the process of urban renovation and gentrification in historic neighbourhoods? Examining the diverse and complex relationships between regeneration, renovation projects and gentrification processes and in addition to these, one of the main aspects of the present study is to understand why in certain cities gentrification occurs after renovation and regeneration projects. To investigate these points, changes in Turkish economic and housing system will be studied to understand the dynamics that affect Istanbul. In this part, also, a particular attention will be provided to the gentrified neighbourhoods in the historic part of Istanbul. Before the 2000s, gentrification through private housing market was the case in Istanbul, but from the 2000s state-led gentrification started to become more common. The reason behind the increase of state intervention and involvement in gentrification from the 2000s will represent a key aspect to investigation.
ÖZETBu makale yenileme ve dönüşüm projeleri odaklanırken aynı zamanda İstanbul'un tarihi mahallelerinde neoliberal kentsel politika açısından soylulaştırma kavramını araştıracaktır. Neoliberal kentsel politikalar, tarihi mahallelerde, kentsel yenileme ve soylulaştırma sürecini nasıl etkiler? Kentsel dönüşüm, yenileme projeleri ve soylulaştırma süreçleri arasındaki karmaşık ilişkiler ve buna ek olarak neden bazı durumlarda soylulaştırma yenileme dönüşüm projelerini takip etmekte olduğu araştırılacaktır. Bu noktaları anlamak için, Türkiye ekonomi ve konut sistemindeki değişiklikler ve bu dinamiklerin İstanbul üzerindeki etkileri incelenecek ve bu bölümde, özellikle İstanbul'un tarihi soylulaşmış semtleri önem kazanacaktır. 2000'li yıllardan önce soylulaştırma sürecinin konut piyasası üzerinden gerçekleşmesi, ancak 2000'li yıllarla berbaer bu dürecin daha çok devlet eliyle yapılan kentsel projelerle gelişiyor olması araştırmanın önemli konularından biridir.
Territorial stigmatisation has been drawing attention in the past decade as an important concept in analysing the bad reputation of run-down neighbourhoods and how this bad reputation is used and produced by state agencies. Especially, the links between territorial stigmatisation and urban policies that are followed by state-led gentrification processes have been an emerging discussion in this analysis of understanding the phenomenon of stigmatised places.
This paper aims to examine the links and relationships between the concepts of territorial stigmatisation, state-led gentrification and state power in the neighbourhood of Tarlabasi in historic Istanbul. The questions this paper responds to through the analysis of Tarlabasi are: What were the motivations of agencies of power to mobilise stigmatisation of Tarlabasi during urban renewal projects? Why did territorial stigmatisation increase during processes of state-led gentrification? How did the inhabitants of Tarlabasi behave in the face of increased stigma? The paper concludes with reflections on the use of territorial stigmatisation as a tool and accelerator for urban renewal/regeneration/transformation projects as well as its use as a mechanism by which to procure consent from the public.
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