This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey. The unifying thread of its chapters is to challenge the rendering of the material world as a mere background to or object in politics, revealing the formative role of material entities and processes in political processes of infrastructure construction, knowledge production, and technical expertise in Turkey. Chapters explore the politics of material entities such as roads, canals, oilfields, and mines as well as less elaborated material sites, including military bases, soccer fields, and wetlands. In the context of Turkey''s ongoing politics of ''modernisation'', these interdisciplinary case studies from the fields of anthropology of infrastructure and extraction, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities, provide important new analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding Turkish politics at local, national, and transnational scales.

Autorentext
Duygu Kasdogan is Assistant Professor of Urbanization and Environmental Problems in Political Science and Public Administration Department at Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey. Ekin Kurtiç is Assistant Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College.Mehmet Ekinci, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, USA

Inhalt
On Materiality and Politics in Turkey: An Introduction
Duygu Kasdogan and Ekin Kurtiç

PART 1
The Politics of Infrastructure

1 Water Pipes versus Power Lines:
GAP Between the Promises and Practices of Infrastructure Build-Up
Aybike Alkan

**2 Making the Water Infrastructure of Istanbul Visible:**
Disease, Fountains, Blueprints (1933- 1971)
Asya Ece Uzmay

**3 "Not for Sale":**
Coal as a Pedagogical Infrastructure After the Soma Mine Disaster
Elif Irem Az

4 Commentary
Canay Özden-Schilling

PART 2
Making Material Worlds Scientific

5 **The Liminal Forest:**
Mud, Science and Nationalism in Turkey's Forests
Hande Özkan

6 **Pasture-Cheese Diplomacy:**
Carving Knowledge in Dairy Technosciences
Mehmet Fatih Tatari

**7 The Social Life of Environmental Expertise:**
Leveraging Scientific Knowledge for Remaking Bio-Cultural Communities
in Turkish Wetlands
Caterina Scaramelli

**8 "Is there Oil in Turkey?"**
Geology, Oil Exploration, and the Indeterminate Materiality of Resources
Zeynep Oguz

9 Commentary
Ståle Knudsen

PART 3
Translating Techniques and Expertise

**10 Smoking under a Volcano:**
Cold War Base Life in Turkish Thrace
Sertaç Sen

11 **Undoctoring Sport:**
Constructing Liberal Bodies in Postwar Turkey
Can Evren

**12 Assembling Gold, Manufacturing Risk:**
Technopolitics in the Age of the Third Gold Rush
Tarik Nejat Dinç

13 Commentary
Begüm Adalet

14 Afterword
Andrew Barry