We Chewed This Mud Together

"Let me knock on their door and say I have a problem like this, my parents will take me and feed me. If he comes too, he knows that I am Alevi, I know that he is Sunni. (…) If there is no road, neither does he, nor do I. With those children, we We grew up together." "They trampled this mud, and so did we. They were not happy when our house was destroyed, or we were not happy when there was damage to their house. If we had a funeral, they ran and we ran." Slum is a concept that is now almost considered obsolete. Urban transformation is dispersing even established slums. Previously, shantytown was a name with a negative connotation. He was identified with disorder, poverty and deprivation. Burcu Şentürk looks at the reality of slums from a different window: As an experience of establishing a common life, solidarity, as a living world; as an original and vivid example of urban movements and struggles. From the first settlements to urban transformation... This book tells the story of Turkey's slum history, in the example of the Ege District in Mamak, Ankara. It is the story of how slums and squatters change depending on the change in the social and economic regime. A separate story within this story is about the labor of women living in slums. A research to be read with its magnificent lively material and novel flavor.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 261

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2015

Language Turkish