Description
Book Synopsis Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath. The book shows that people can accommodate their own dispossession and displacement if they are directed to negotiate, invest in, and speculate on the destruction of their built environment and nature, and their material and immaterial bonds, wealth, and activities.
Trade Review “The book offers a powerful contribution to the anthropological and political economy literature focused on infrastructure, construction, and financialization. Its clarity and concise prose makes it accessible to both specialists and undergraduates alike. It is captivating and insightful—I found myself haunted by some of its ethnographic descriptions and I could not stop reading it.” • Fabio Mattioli, University of Melbourne
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Rise and Decline of an Anti-Displacement Campaign
Chapter 2. Politics of Time and Space
Chapter 3. Entangled Dispossessions
Chapter 4. Economies of Construction and Destruction
Chapter 5. Tenses of Violence
Conclusion
References
Index
