Kent marjinlerinde gündelik yaşamda şiddet deneyimleri: Okmeydanı örneği

This thesis examines the transformation of an Alevi working-class district in Istanbul, Okmeydanı, with a long history of left-wing politics since the 1960s, to depoliticization, with a specific focus on how women experienced this shift. The fieldwork that lasted on-and-off four years indicate that Okmeydanı's robust contentious politics from the past have significantly diminished since the 2000s, mainly because of increased state interference in daily life. The state interfered in everyday life through both repression and cooptation. While the increasing presence of police in everyday life increased, the state co-opted with social aids. Such state-led interventions have resulted in decreasing number of protests, narrowing of repertoire of actions, and the intertwining of municipalities and muhtars. The fieldwork revealed that the district's gendered nature and the gender-based impacts of urban violence are integral to analyzing the depoliticization process transformation. With their nuanced and sometimes ambiguous responses to these political changes, the women living in Okmeydanı offer more than a narrative of temporal transition. Their experiences underscore the complex dynamics at play as they move back and forth between the region's political past and present. The analysis of transformations in Okmeydanı aims to contribute to the depoliticization literature by examining it in an authoritarian context, exploring the effects of neoliberal state practices in urban margins, and assessing the gendered consequences of depoliticization.