Book Launch: Bulldozer Capitalism
A MERGE event in cooperation with the Institute for European Ethnology
Thursday, 14 July 2022, 16:00 -18:00 (CEST)
Room 507, Mohrenstraße 40-41, 10117 Berlin
in cooperation with the Institute for European Ethnology
Book Launch: Bulldozer Capitalism
With the author:
Dr. Erdem Evren
Moderator:
Dr. Özge Yaka
BULLDOZER CAPITALISM
Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey
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.