Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tez Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: City University of New York, The Graduate Center, Anthropology, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
Tez Danışmanı: David Harvey
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Desteklendiği Program: Bu tezi destekleyen bir program bulunmamaktadır
Özet:
This dissertation examines the theoretical and political
contradictions surrounding the notion of the right to the city. The
right to the city concept has lately attracted a great deal of
attention, both from academics who have long engaged with urban theory
and politics, and from grassroots activists around the globe who have
been fighting on the ground for an alternative just urbanism. In
addition to urbanists and grassroots urban justice activists, the right
to the city concept has also drawn considerable attention from the
United Nations (UN) agencies such as UN-HABITAT and UNESCO, which have
organized meetings and outlined policies to absorb the notion into their
own political agendas. This wide-ranging interest has created a
conceptual vortex that has pulled discordant political projects behind
the banner of the right to the city. By reframing the notion of the
right to the city to foreground its roots in Marxian labor theory of
value, this dissertation offers a theoretical framework to analyze
diverse and often contradictory struggles for realizing the right to the
city. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in New York, Boston
and Istanbul, the dissertation is organized around the three pillars of
the labor theory of value, namely, use value, exchange value and value.
It begins with an examination of the political struggles that are
mobilized for accessing use values in the city. This is followed by an
examination of the UN agencies’ claim over the right to the city that is
primarily for realizing exchange values in the city. Although this
dissertation acknowledges the usefulness of the analyses of urban
political struggles based on the contradiction between use value and
exchange value, it concludes with the shortcomings of such analyses and
argues for a politics of value, which aims to cast labor in the
epicenter of struggles for the right to the city.