Right here, right now: a call for engaged scholarship on climate justice in Turkey

A policy content analysis for evaluating urban adaptation justice in İstanbul

“…These are linked to structural impediments such as decision-making processes, regulations, institutional setup and resource allocation (Peker and Ataöv, 2021). This observation echoes the distinct lack of tangible and measurable targets enhancing the impressions of vagueness around climate change adaptation policy, confirming previous findings describing Turkey's adaptation efforts as indistinct and poorly enforced (Savas ¸an, 2019;Balaban, 2017;Turhan, 2017).…”

“…Although there has been a rise in the interest on adaptation planning and justice considerations, it can be argued that Istanbul is a laggard compared to other megacities in terms of scholarly attention on these topics (for some exceptions, see Aygün Ogur and Baycan, 2022;Connelly and Bal, 2016;Onur and Tezer, 2015;Yazar and York, 2021). Henceforth, this study responds to and justifies growing calls for exploring equity and justice criteria around climate change adaptation at the national and sub-national levels in Turkey (Turhan, 2017).…”

Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey

“…Such "national macroeconomic accounting" does not recognize, however, the costs of displacement and dispossession of communities in the extractive commodity frontiers through the destruction of their socio-ecological sources of livelihood. Neither does it recognize the destruction of environmental patterns and processes such as biodiversity and climate (Martinez-Alier, 2012;Turhan, 2017).…”

“…Yet, we believe that this is not enough. A more complete treatment of Turkey's troubled environments on the edge calls for employing the toolbox of environmental humanities and exploring the main political, cultural and historical factors related to socio-environmental problems (including, but not limited to climate change, see Turhan, 2017). This helps us not only to better ground some of the historical and contemporary debates on the actually existing socio-natures in Turkey, but also to understand the multiplicity of framings and narratives around human-nonhuman interactions in the country in a time of authoritarian populism.…”