Different Faces of Urban Poverty

Course Code:

ANT 349

Semester:

Fall

Course Type:

Area Elective

P:

3

Credits:

3

ECTS:

5

Course Language:

English

Course Coordinator:

Egemen Yılgür

Courses given by:

Egemen Yılgür

Course Objectives:

The course aims to teach students about poverty literature and patterns from an analytical perspective.

Course Content:

Poverty theories, the culture of poverty, the relation between underclass literature and culture of poverty, the concept of territorial stigmatisation, different migration patterns and poverty, informality from a global perspective, deteriorating zones, teneke mahalles, gecekondus

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion

Course Evaluation Methods:

A: Testing, C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
Students will gain the ability to comprehend poverty theoretically.	1,3	A, C
Students will learn the characteristics of poverty patterns.	1,3	A, C
Students will learn the historical development of spatial appearances of poverty.	1,3	A, C
Students will gain the ability to comprehend urban informality from a global perspective.	1,3	A, C
Students will be able to link local and global appearances of poverty experience.	1,3	A, C

Course Flow

Week	Topics	Preparation
1	Introduction to the Course
2	Introduction: Why should we study poverty?	Jeffrey Sachs. (2005). The End of Poverty. London: Penguin Books. Georg Simmel. (1965[1908]). The Poor. Social Problems, 13(2). Lewis Coser. (1965). The Sociology of Poverty: To the Memory of Georg Simmel. Social Problems, 13(2). Mike Davis. (2006). Planet of Slums. London, New York: Verso.
3	A General Evaluation of the Structuralist and Subjectivist Poverty Theories	David Calnitsky. (2018). Structural and Individualistic Theories of Poverty. Sociology Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12640. David L. Harvey, Michael Reed. (1992). Paradigms of Poverty: A Critical Assessment of Contemporary Perspectives, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 6(2).
4	Culture of Poverty	Oscar Lewis. (1966). The Culture of Poverty. Scientific American, 215(4). Oscar Lewis. (1967). The Children of Sánchez, Pedro Martínez, and La Vida. Current Anthropology, 8(5).
5	From Culture of Poverty to Underclass	David L. Harvey, Michael H. Reed. (1996). The Culture of Poverty: An Ideological Analysis. Sociological Perspectives, 39(4). Charles Murray. (1999). The Underclass Revisited. Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute. John Welshman. (2006). Underclass A History of the Excluded. London: Hambledon Continuum. Lydia Morris. (1994). Dangerous Class The Underclass and Social Citizenship. London: Routledge. Michael Morris. (1989). From the Culture of Poverty to the Underclass: An Analysis of a Shift in Public Language. The American Sociologist, 20(2). William Julius Wilson. (1987). The Truly Disadvantaged the Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
6	Stigma and Territorial Stigmatisation	Loïc Wacquant. (2007). Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality. Thesis Eleven, 91. Loïc Wacquant. (2008). Urban Outcasts A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality. Cambridge: Polity. Loïc Wacquant. (2014). Territorial Stigmatization in Action. Environment and Planning A. 46.
	Midterm
8	Migration Patterns and Poverty	Charles Tilly. (1976). Migration in Modern European History. CRSO Working Paper, 145. Gillian Bottomley. Anthropologists and the Rhizomatic Study of Migration. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 9(1). Nina Ergin. (2011). The Albanian Tellak Connection: Labor Migration to the Hammams of 18th-century Istanbul, Based on the 1752 İstanbul Hamamları Defteri. Turcica, 43. Simone A. Wegge. (1998). Chain Migration and Information Networks: Evidence from Nineteenth Century Hesse-Cassel. The Journal of Economic History, 58(4). Tahire Erman. (2021). Migration from Rural Anatolia to Metropolitan Cities. The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey. London: Routledge.
9	Urban Informality from the Global Perspective and Diversity of Informal Settlements-I	Ahmed Soliman. (2004). Tilting at Sphinxes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 498-598). Oxford: Lexington Books. Alejandro Portes. (1971). The Urban Slum in Chile: Types and Correlates. Land Economics, 47(3). Amida Bhide, Smita Waingankar. (2015). Comparing Informalities: Slums, Gunthewaris and Other Informalities in Maharashtra. Environment and Urbanization ASIA, 6(2), 125-138. Asef Bayat. (2004). Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 236-305). Oxford: Lexington Books. Charles J. Stokes. (1962). A Theory of Slums. Land Economics, 38(3). Janice Perlman. (1975). Rio’s Favelas the Myth of Marginality. Politics and Society, 5(2). Janice E. Perlman. (2004). Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2002. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 307-427). Oxford: Lexington Books. John Turner. (1965). Lima’s Barriadas and Corralones: Suburbs versus Slum. Ekistics, 19(112). Mangin William. (1967). Latin American Squatter Settlements: A Problem and a Solution. Latin American Research Review, 2(3). Nezar AlSayyad. (2004). Urban Informality as a “New” Way of Life. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 35-101). Oxford: Lexington Books. Peter Lloyd. (1979). Slums of Hope? Shanty Towns of the Third World. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Peter Lloyd. (1980). The ‘Young Towns’ of Lima Aspects of Urbanization in Peru. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Peter M. Ward. (1976). The Squatter Settlement as Slum or Housing Solution: Evidence from Mexico City. Land Economics, 52(3).
10	Urban Informality from the Global Perspective and Diversity of Informal Settlements-II	Ahmed Soliman. (2004). Tilting at Sphinxes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 498-598). Oxford: Lexington Books. Alejandro Portes. (1971). The Urban Slum in Chile: Types and Correlates. Land Economics, 47(3). Amida Bhide, Smita Waingankar. (2015). Comparing Informalities: Slums, Gunthewaris and Other Informalities in Maharashtra. Environment and Urbanization ASIA, 6(2), 125-138. Asef Bayat. (2004). Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 236-305). Oxford: Lexington Books. Charles J. Stokes. (1962). A Theory of Slums. Land Economics, 38(3). Janice Perlman. (1975). Rio’s Favelas the Myth of Marginality. Politics and Society, 5(2). Janice E. Perlman. (2004). Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2002. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 307-427). Oxford: Lexington Books. John Turner. (1965). Lima’s Barriadas and Corralones: Suburbs versus Slum. Ekistics, 19(112). Mangin William. (1967). Latin American Squatter Settlements: A Problem and a Solution. Latin American Research Review, 2(3). Nezar AlSayyad. (2004). Urban Informality as a “New” Way of Life. Ananya, Roy, Nezar, AlSayyad (Eds). Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 35-101). Oxford: Lexington Books. Peter Lloyd. (1979). Slums of Hope? Shanty Towns of the Third World. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Peter Lloyd. (1980). The ‘Young Towns’ of Lima Aspects of Urbanization in Peru. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Peter M. Ward. (1976). The Squatter Settlement as Slum or Housing Solution: Evidence from Mexico City. Land Economics, 52(3).
11	Deteriorating Zones	Didem Danış, Ebru Kayaalp. (2004). A Neighborhood in Flux. İstanbul: IFEA Edhem Eldem. (2010). “İstanbul: İmparatorluk Payitahtından Perileşmiş Bir Başkente” [Istanbul: From Imperial to Peripheralized Capital], in Doğu ile Batı Arasında Osmanlı Kenti Halep, İzmir ve İstanbul, ed. Edhem Eldem and Daniel Goffman ve Bruce Masters. İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2010. Frederick Engels. (1952[1892]).The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Harry Barnes. (1931). The Slum its Story and Solution. London: P. S. King & Son. Zeynep Çelik. (1993). The Remaking of Istanbul Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
12	Teneke Mahalles	Ceylan İrem Gençer, Işıl Çokuğraş. (2016). Regulation of Urban Space in the Ottoman State: The Case of Istanbul (1820-1900). Megaron, 11(1). Edhem Eldem. (2010). “İstanbul: İmparatorluk Payitahtından Perileşmiş Bir Başkente” [Istanbul: From Imperial to Peripheralized Capital], in Doğu ile Batı Arasında Osmanlı Kenti Halep, İzmir ve İstanbul, ed. Edhem Eldem and Daniel Goffman ve Bruce Masters. İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2010. Egemen Yılgür. (2022). Formation of Informal Settlements and the Development of Idiom Teneke Mahalle in the Late-Ottoman Istanbul. Journal of Urban History, 48(3). Zeynep Çelik. (1993). The Remaking of Istanbul Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
13	Gecekondus	Ayşe Buğra, Çağlar Keyder. (2003). New Poverty and the Changing Welfare Regime of Turkey. Ankara: UNDP. Cem Behar. (2003). A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Ilyas Mahalle. Albany: State University of New York Press. D. W. Drakakis-Smith, W. B. Fisher. (1976). Housing in Ankara. Ekistics, 42(249). D. W. Drakakis-Smith. (1976). Slums and Squatters in Ankara: Case Studies in Four Areas of the City. The Town Planning Review, 47(3). Jean-François Pérouse. Deconstructing the Gecekondu. European Journal of Turkish Studies,1. Kemal Karpat. (1976). The Gecekondu Rural Migration and Urbanization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mahyar Arefi. Rethinking the Local Knowledge Approach to Placemaking: Lessons from Turkey. Open House International, 36(2). Sema Erder, “Where Do You Hail from? Localism and Networks in İstanbul,” in Istanbul between the Global and the Local, ed. Çağlar Keyder (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999),
14	Students Presentations
15	Final

Recommended Sources

The sources for weekly lectures are indicated above.

Assessment

ASSESSMENT
IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Mid-terms	1	30
Homework	1	10
Final	1	60
Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE		60
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE		40
Total		100

Course’s Contribution to Program

No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	The student learns about the cultural and physical development of human beings throughout history, the basic terminology of Anthropology and its basic theories.					X
2	The student gains the ability to think analytically and approach topics from a critical perspective					X
3	The student gains the ability to convey information effectively both in oral and written manners.		X
4	The student gains an occupational ethics, social ethics, and a social responsibility.		X
5	The student gains the ability to interpret cultural and historical dynamics, the cultural characteristics of Turkish culture and world cultures, analyzing the culture phenomenon and its intricate dynamics.					X
6	The students maintains an occupational and personal development beyond the understanding of the world and nation problems.		X
7	The student gains an ability to make use of the sources outside of the discipline and make this a life-long ability.		X
8	The student gains the ability to designate a research topic in line with anthropological guidelines and form the required methodology.					X
9	The student will gain the ability to question scientific and societal problems, being able to take part in individual and team projects.		X

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	15	3	45
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	15	1	15
Mid-terms	1	25	25
Quiz	-	-	-
Homework	1	10	10
Final examination	1	30	30
Total Work Load			125
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			5
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

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