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Yazarlar: Seda AYDIN

Konular:-

Anahtar Kelimeler:Middle class,New middle class,Gated communities,Neoliberal urbanization,Housing

Özet: In broad terms, this article deals with the expansion of the once-exclusive gated communities in İstanbul to the large segments of the middle class especially following the 2008 economic crisis. It analyses how the characteristics of this housing form and its meaning for the city change with the inclusion of new segments of the middle class to the target mass. It also examines what the discourses of the residents about their gated communities, their fellow residents and the city reveal about the category of “middle class”. Based on 19 in-depth interviews with the residents of the gated communities addressing larger segments of the society, and discourse analysis of the advertisement material and other media coverage, it shows how the ideal types of neoliberal housing and the neoliberal middle-class urbanite are drawn, It also argues that the category of “middle class” is a political one with malleable boundaries (re)drawn according to the present regime of capital accumulation with these ideal types.     

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