The'Green Road' Project and an assessment of neoliberal environmental policies' effect on Rize's local community on the basis of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology

Neoliberalism is a form of organisation aimed at undermining the state's power while strengthening the private sector and destroying the labor force. This kind of organisation influencing societies structurally presents itself as the only truth through itsphilosphically and politiclly well-arculated arguments. In this research, the influence of the neoliberal policies targeting the naturehas been studied on the basis of sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. In doing that, based on the assumption that neoliberalism is a doxa, the effect of the Green Road Project planned to be constructed in Rize and on the nature and its people has been investigated. The aim of this study is to reveal the episteme as a source of nature emerging in the discourse of the local Rize community.