
Production of Space (Production of Space) is a foundational theory developed by the French thinker and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, who lived between 1901 and 1991 and is known in the literature as a Neo-Marxist, to radically analyze the relationships between city, space and politics.【1】 Lefebvre’s redefinition of space not as a physical and static void but as a social production field was significantly shaped by his experience as a taxi driver in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s and his internat
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The title of our article is taken from a poem written by Sezai Karakoç in February 1959. However, in this piece we will address a different subject than a poetic analysis: wearing a dress stained with blood and never wanting to change it… The poem begins with these lines: “You added something of yourself You made death beautiful”【1】 Today I learned of the death of Sultan Özcan, known on social media as “the red-clad woman.” Who was this red-clad woman and why were they calling her that? I first
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Urban Anthropology is a subfield of socio-cultural anthropology that examines cultural systems in cities and their interactions at local, regional, and global scales.【1】 Unlike traditional anthropology, which focused on non-modern, primitive, or rural communities, this field centers on complex and industrialized urban structures. Urban anthropology views the city not merely as a physical settlement but as a dynamic habitat where social processes, spatial forms, and ideological representations ar
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Civil inattention is one of the fundamental concepts developed by Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman to explain face-to-face interactions between strangers in everyday life. The concept refers to individuals briefly acknowledging the presence of unfamiliar people they encounter in public spaces through a fleeting glance or body language, then withdrawing their attention to respect the other person’s privacy. Thus, the individual demonstrates that they do not ignore the other person, yet also do
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