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ArticlePublication Metadata only What is the ‘alternative’? Insights from Istanbul’s food networks(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Ghosh, Candan Türkkan; Gastronomy and Culinary Arts; GHOSH, Candan TürkkanOutside of the Global North, where agri-food systems have not yet consolidated into a ‘funnel shape,’ what makes an urban provisioning actor ‘alternative’ is not always clear. In this paper, I use members’ own definitions, emphases, and arguments to differentiate ‘alternative’ networks from other provisioning actors. Using data from semi-structured interviews, I show that while community-building and an affiliation with the food movement (broadly defined) are the most critical features identified by people who participate in these networks, more informal, ad hoc, familial or village networks that are utilized as a response to urban food insecurity are excluded. While such exclusions may not be unique, in this case, they reflect more fundamental divisions regarding what ‘alternative’ implies and how to challenge the throttling hold of conventional provisioning agents on the contemporary agri-food system.ArticlePublication Metadata only Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Ghosh, Candan Türkkan; Gastronomy and Culinary Arts; GHOSH, Candan TürkkanIntroduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibility requirements, and go around the screening processes, make visible these otherwise-mostly invisible information infrastructures. Through a discussion of the contestations, subversions, and go-arounds applicants use (not always successfully) to receive emergency food relief from municipal food banks in Istanbul, the paper shows that these information infrastructures not only appear as if they are value-neutral and apolitical, but in so doing, they also serve as useful tools for obscuring who the actual decision makers are.ArticlePublication Metadata only Wasteful or sensible? Donor imageries in İstanbul’s food banks(Cambridge University Press, 2020-05) Ghosh, Candan Türkkan; Gastronomy and Culinary Arts; GHOSH, Candan TürkkanThis article investigates Alevi youth subjectivities in a neighborhood of Istanbul, Okmeydani, in which mainly Alevi people live, through the youth's self-positionings in revolutionary groups, which has deeply marked the highly politicized history of the district. The grievances of Okmeydanli Alevi youth have grown increasingly complex, stemming from experiences of violence, family legacies of victimhood, and, in recent years, new forms of exclusion. Coupled with generational ruptures between youth and their families in experiencing Alevi identity, Alevi youth have created a political identity and collectivity in the sphere of revolutionary politics. In this politicization, Okmeydani becomes a spatialization of resistance which gives the youth a sense of power to achieve solidarity and find intimacy to defend themselves and their rights. Moreover, for the youth, engaging in a revolutionary political identity enables them to define themselves and redefine Alevi identity in contrast with, and sometimes against, the perceptions of their families. I argue that it is through this performativity that Okmeydanli Alevi youth achieve self-empowerment and identity construction; and through this performativity in street politics that the youth render their agencies and self-representations visible on public space.ArticlePublication Metadata only The right to self-preservation? corporeal considerations in the leviathan(Bogazici Universitesi, 2021) Ghosh, Candan Türkkan; Gastronomy and Culinary Arts; GHOSH, Candan TürkkanbbArticlePublication Metadata only Who is "deserving" of aid? Subject-formation in Istanbul's food banks(Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-27) Ghosh, Candan Türkkan; Gastronomy and Culinary Arts; GHOSH, Candan TürkkanThis paper focuses on how the food banks, in working to allocate resources appropriately, constantly generate appropriate subjects, the "deserving poor", and through processes of identification and verification, unmask the "undeserving poor". The paper argues that process of identification, which includes practices of identification, registration, and documentation, push the applicants to self-identify and self-register as "the poor". Next, process of verification, which includes practices of categorization, surveillance, and verification, divide the applicants into "deserving" and "undeserving". While the "deserving poor" become the recipients of food aid from the food banks, the "undeserving" are characterized as lazy, greedy, and cunning and attempting to claim more than what they are entitled to. Even though the recipients resist this categorization, the separation is maintained to ensure that the aid is allocated appropriately. What is appropriate, however, is closely related to who is appropriate, which, in turn, is dependent upon who the food bank staff prioritize in terms of age, ethnicity, gender, employment, and marriage status. As such, not only some experiences of poverty and food insecurity are recognized as public problems, but also associations of reproductive and productive labor, public and domestic realm with specific gender roles and identities are reinforced.ArticlePublication Metadata only Clean foods, motherhood and alternative food networks in contemporary Istanbul(Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-01) Ghosh, Candan Türkkan; Gastronomy and Culinary Arts; GHOSH, Candan TürkkanSince the early 2000s, the numbers of alternative food networks (AFNs) in Istanbul have increased significantly. Members are usually white collar, university educated, upper middle class Istanbulites who got into the AFNs during their (or their partner's) pregnancy. Contributing to an ongoing discussion about the exclusionary dynamics within the food movement, in this paper I trace the meanings these affluent mothers attach to "clean and fresh foods" and AFN participation-membership. Using evidence from semi-structured interviews, I argue that they link their identity as food activists and their identity as mothers, and they use motherhood discursively to distinguish themselves from others - particularly lower-class mothers who are not AFN members, and women who are AFN members, but are not mothers. Further reinforcing the socio-economic boundaries and hierarchies within (and beyond) the AFNs, these discourses on motherhood also undermine the expansive potential of the food movement in Turkey.ReviewPublication Metadata only The charity of war: Famine, humanitarian aid and world war I in the middle east(Cambridge University Press, 2020-11) Ghosh, Candan Türkkan; Gastronomy and Culinary Arts; Kolluoğlu, B.; Yükseker, D.; GHOSH, Candan TürkkanN/A