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    Being a forestry labourer in the late Ottoman Empire: Debt bondage, migration, and sedentarization
    (Cambridge University Press, 2022-12) Kovankaya, Başak Akgül; Humanities and Social Sciences; KOVANKAYA, Başak Akgül
    This article examines the survival strategies of forestry workers and craftspeople in the late Ottoman Empire. Through the example of the Tahtacl, a semi-nomadic community specialized in lumbering in the forests along the western and southern coasts of Anatolia, it visualizes the adaptation strategies of forestry labourers in the changing economic and ecological environment of the Mediterranean Basin, which became warmer, less forested, and more integrated into regional and global markets after the mid-nineteenth century. Contrary to the generally accepted view that perceives the Tahtacl as a self-isolated, authentic clan with a static way of life, this article considers them a highly adaptive community that developed a wide range of strategies to earn their livelihood under intense commercialization in forestry and agriculture.
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    Can nacar, labor and power in the late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco workers, managers, and the state, 1872-1912
    (Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-26) Kovankaya, Başak Akgül; Humanities and Social Sciences; KOVANKAYA, Başak Akgül
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    Timber and forestry in Qing China. Sustaining the market
    (Cambridge University Press, 2022-08) Kovankaya, Başak Akgül; Humanities and Social Sciences; KOVANKAYA, Başak Akgül
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    Timber smuggling and forestry politics in late nineteenth-century Western Taurus
    (Taylor & Francis, 2020-07) Kovankaya, Başak Akgül; Humanities and Social Sciences; KOVANKAYA, Başak Akgül
    The nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire witnessed a gradual change in the forestry regime. In response to the intensifying struggle over forest resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Ottoman government introduced a series of reforms aimed at exerting more direct control over forests. In the implementation of these reforms not only did opposing interests clash at the central level but local interest groups involved in regional trade networks also appeared as influential actors. Focusing on a lawsuit related to forest crimes committed in the Teke region in the beginning of the 1890s, this paper discusses how modern, bureaucratized forestry practices were negotiated at the local level. By uncovering a complicated interaction among forest officials at the center and in the provinces, as well as timber merchants, this paper considers smuggling an integral component of politics over natural resources.