Assembling gentrification in Istanbul: The Cihangir neighbourhood of Beyoğlu

This paper aims to contribute to the gentrification literature through the potentials of assemblage thinking. We focus on gentrification in Istanbul, which represents the characteristics of both the Global South and North, and use assemblages to link together gentrification and the temporal scales of Istanbul’s urbanisation as well as geographical scales of gentrification around the world. Approaching gentrification as a continual process of transformation and emergence, we intend to illuminate how assemblages of gentrification in a historical inner-city neighbourhood, Cihangir, can be produced and reproduced in the trajectory of this neighbourhood. In so doing, we reveal and explore the role of the state in seemingly market-led gentrification and draw attention to the generative potentiality in the local resistance to the recent state-led gentrification of Cihangir. 本文旨在通过组合思维的潜力为绅士化研宄作出贡献。我们专注于伊斯坦布尔集南北半球的特点于一身的绅士化，并运用组合思维将绅士化与伊斯坦布尔城市化的时间尺度以及世界各地绅士化的地理尺度联系在一起。我们将绅士化作为一个持续不断的变革和崛起过程，意在阐明绅士化在 Cihangir 历史文化街区的组合过程如何能在该街区的变迁轨迹上生产和再生产。在这一过程中，我们揭示并探讨了政府在看似由市场主导的绅士化过程中发挥的作用，并提请注意当地对 Cihangir 由政府主导的绅士化的抵制所具备的生成潜力。