1. Hello Radix’ers, @akgungor_c here. I’m glad to be with you this week. It will be a pleasure for me to post here. My thing is to generate and “mobilize” information & knowledge to assist organizations and communities with respect to emergencies & disasters.
2. An eternity ago, I defended a Ph.D. thesis in political science in which I had mainly focused on #disaster and #sociopolitical #change. At that time, I thought I would not spend a single more minute on that text but instead leave it to collect dust in the French archives.
3. And after I walked away from academia, I literally forgot about it for a long period, until a couple of years ago. In fact, I’m catching myself -more and more- thinking about some of the conclusions I had drawn back then.
4. I had started to work on “the birth of #civil #society” discourse we had observed following the great #Marmara #earthquakes in Turkey in 1999, to end up with an analysis of all major quakes from 1939 to 1999.
5. Looking at that country today, I see how the disaster had been useful to me as an analysis “tool” and how it allowed me to develop pretty accurate arguments about the shape of the things to come.
6. My closing paragraph was something along the lines of “…as we have shown it, Turkish society still seems to seek for its identity… and its itinerary will be shaped by the outcomes of the conflict between the secular “new” middle class and the neo-conservators.”
7. Not bad, eh? But the Turkish case isn’t what I want to tweet about. I’m interested in discussing what the disaster can show us from a sociopolitical (and even organizational) perspective, rather than elaborating on a particular case.
8. Still if you would like to take a look at the work, be my guest: halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00222781/ See you tomorrow 👋
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