Feeding Istanbul: The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning

Candan Türkkan, Ph.D. (2019), University of Massachusetts Amherst, is Assistant Professor of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts at Ozyegin University. In addition to her academic publications on urban provisioning, alternative food networks and food banks in Turkey, she writes regularly for general audience on the politics of food in Turkey and beyond.

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 Introduction1 Three Food Regimes2 So, What Are Food Regimes?3 Success vs. Failure: Scarcity, Hunger, Malnutrition, and Famine4 The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning5 Notes on Terms, Periodization, and Methodology6 Chapter Outlines2 The Hungry CapitalThe Provisioning of Ottoman Istanbul1 The Provisioning Apparatuses: Routes, Ports, and Actors2 Shared Provisioning Apparatuses3 Sovereignty and Kudret4 Timelines and Macro Processes5 Transitions: Global Wheat, Local Plum6 The Urban Food Provisioning Food Regime3 Unruly Transitions1 The War Years and Republican Istanbul’s Codependent Provisioning1.1 Years of War1.2 Republican Istanbul2 Urban Provisioning During Unruly Transitions3 Scarcity in War vs. Scarcity in Peace4 The Emerging Food Regime4 Planned Scarcities1 Growing Istanbul: The Pangs of Development or the Crisis of Capitalism?1.1 The 1950s: Menderes’ Istanbul1.2 The 1960s and 1970s: Volatile Growth2 A Rationed Sovereignty3 Urban Provisioning in Import Substitution4 The Codependent Provisioning Food Regime5 Feeding Global Istanbul1 The 1980s: From Import Substitution to Market Liberalization2 The 1990s: A Decade of Crises3 The 2000s: A World City? Globalization and Istanbul4 The Contemporary Provisioning Apparatus4.1 In the Day of a Bazaar Vendor4.2 At the Hal5 A Precarious Sovereignty or the Sovereignty of Precarity?6 The Urban Food Supply Chain Food Regime6 Diverging Paths1 The 2010s: From Consolidation to Domination2 The Future of Istanbul’s Provisioning Apparatus3 The Promise of a Different Future4 Of the Sovereignty, Political Community, and the Central Authority5 The Global and the Local7 ConclusionAppendix 1 Some Early Sources on Istanbul’s Bağ, Bahçe, and BostanAppendix 2 List of Various Foods Provisioned to Istanbul and Their Locations of ProductionBibliographyIndex