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In this study, ghetto tourism, in which the aspects of poverty, exclusion and marginality are included in the tourism activity is discussed in ghettos which is a sharp form of urban segregation. Slum tourism, defined as a niche tourism type, is discussed through the discourse analysis of promotional texts on the websites of tour companies (Daytours4u, African Trails and Reality Tours & Travel) serving in Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and Mumbai, where the world's largest ghettos are located. The discourses of these companies, which refer to the social benefits of ghetto tourism, are analyzed under the themes of "authentic consumption, awareness and regional development", which are related to each other. While the authentic consumption discourse offers the promise of a unique experience to the tourists, it is expected that experiencing poverty in the ghettos and intercultural interaction will create an awareness. It is assumed that this awareness will provide economic and cultural development in the ghettos through combating the stereotypes about the ghettos in the global media, increasing philanthropy and commercial activity in the region, and supporting NGOs. These relational themes are discussed based on the literature where two main approaches that see ghetto tourism as an opportunity and treat these tours as "alternative tours", "reality tours", "authentic tours" and critical approaches that consider it as "poverty tourism", "dark tourism", "safari tours" from the points of "social voyeurism", "commercialization of poverty" and other sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The concept of poverty and anti-poverty practices have always occupied an important place in social life and on the agenda of governments. Practical examples highlight the transformation of these facts and the perception of poverty in the historical process. Today, the concept is mainly addressed at the urban scale, particularly in developing and developed countries. Especially in the last quarter of the 20th century, there has been a major process of transformation in poverty and welfare regimes in response to economic, political and social changes. In this period in which the understanding of the welfare state has weakened, the rapid change in literature is largely attributed to the dominance of neoliberalism. Because during this period, neoliberalism concentrated on establishing a new economic order to secure the power of the ruling classes. For the establishment of this new order, various practices such as downsizing of the public sector, privatizations, flexibility of employment markets, and reduction of labor costs began to spread on a global scale. In parallel with these structural changes in the economy, we can see that there have been significant changes in poverty and anti-poverty practices. In this context, in this study, the transformation of urban poverty is discussed and the change in the approach of fighting against urban poverty in line with the development of social policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The new concept of poverty or urban poverty includes the disadvantaged status of people who are unable to obtain an equal share of various socio-spatial factors, particularly economic, in regards to daily life. Waste collectors are one of the main groups in the urban environment who are deprived of welfare, justice, and representation. This study aims to answer the questions of what psychosocial effects and other difficulties are faced by waste laborers, as well as how their reflections on their experiences and sense of belonging to the city has developed. The study population consists of three (3) metropolitan districts of Ankara (Altındağ, Çankaya, and Keçiören), and the sample group is comprised of seventy (70) waste workers who eke out an existence by collecting waste in these districts. The data obtained in the study and carried out in the form of face-to-face interviews, which is one of the qualitative research techniques utilised in this study, were analyzed through the use of descriptive and content analysis. The results obtained show that waste laborers experience urban poverty in their socio-spatial relations with regard to daily life. It was revealed that they were susceptible to certain spatial and psychosocial traumas, such as marginality produced by the new concept of poverty, inability to relate to urban space, exclusion and stigma. Various suggestions are made in the study to include waste laborers in the recycling sector, and so help them find solutions to the multiple disadvantages they face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sixteenth century Istanbul contained numerous imarets that fed significant population. Apart from the imarets, food was distributed through institutions such as dervish lodges, masjids, mektebs, madrasas and tombs. Of these, dervish lodges and mektebs in particular supplied food to the urban poor as well as to their own staff. Masjids had a role in meeting need for sustenance among the people living in their vicinity, while madrasas unlike other institutions, served food mostly to their staff. Among the aforementioned institutions, dervish lodges were the ones to which philanthropists allocated the most food. Dervish lodges were thus were the most important institution in food distribution after the imarets. The support of people called "müridin and muhibbin" was particularly important in the distribution of food by the dervish lodges. Holy days and nights special significance as occasions for serving food in these lodges. Based on data in Tahrir Registers of Istanbul Waqfs dated 1546, this study discusses food waqfs, other than imarets. As this data shows, the philanthropists who donated food to the needy included people of modest means as well as those possessing enormous wealth.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Between 1973-1980, a local political movement called social(ist) municipality/new municipal movement/social democratic municipalism/democratic municipalism emerged in Turkey. The mentioned movement, created by the experiences of mayors who were producing local policies for urban poor, holds a valuable place in the history of Turkish local politics. Although many academic studies discuss the unique experiences and cases of the mentioned movement, Denizli city -a peculiar experience of social(ist) municipality- could not find a place in the literature. This paper will try to discuss the social(ist) municipality experience in the politics of Denizli. The main aim of the study is to focus on the unique and restricted parts of new municipalism in Denizli which were different from the mainstream discussions of Turkey. The new municipal experience in Denizli was shaped by the individual efforts of the mayor which produced local policies for urban poor. Producing local projects for urban poor in Denizli, called the castle of the center-right parties, caused tensions at the urban level. On the other hand, Denizli's new municipalism experience was deprived of urban social movements, urbanization experts and the political potential of slums. Mayor Hasan Gönüllü's political discourse, the featured parts of the new municipalism in Denizli and the comparison of Gönüllü's experience from the mainstream Turkish cases determine the basic problematic of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the problems of "internally displaced persons" who live in poverty in urban settlement, with special reference to Bourdieu's terms "habitus" and "culture capital". "Internally displaced persons" have suffered urban poverty, lack of education, lack of better access to health services, poor participation in labor market and they have been subjected to the so called "urban discrimination", that is, a discrimination that is not based on "belief" and or "ethnicity" as expected, but is based on "urban-rural dichotomy". The culture of poverty generated under such conditions become man made fate of Thus, new generations grown up within the families living below poverty line have developed a culture of poverty determining the thinking and perception of internally displaced persons and their cultural and social reproductions. In other words, poverty in its all dimensions becomes a vicious circle, a man made fate written into the bodies of internally displaceds or a culture capital in Bourdieuan terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Grounds of the Study: Under the logic of capital accumulation process; poverty has been aggravating day by day in the world-wide with deepening problems of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged sections of the society, and nowadays with mostly influencing the urban population. Urban poverty demonstrated itself with %8.86 in Turkey (TUIK, 2009). At the study, urban poverty and urban poverty alleviation have been searched from the socio-economic and political restructuring process from 1980s onwards. Since 1980s, global planet has been under the influence of neo-liberal discourses. New political agenda reflected itself with the policies supporting capital, new order has been settling on decentralization, localization, governance, privatization, elimination of global trade boarders, and alleviation of social security network. In this respect, within the framework of re-scaling and re-structuring of state; state transfers power to global scale (multinational organizations and institutions) and local scale (local administrations).That process leads to change at state's intervention to urban fields and local administrations come to the front side as the pivot actors at combating poverty. Purpose of the Study: That paper's first objective is highlighting the emergence of local administrations at combating poverty within the socio-economic transformation of world order under capitalist formation within the re-scaling of state process. The second target at the research paper is to set forth the aggravating trend on urban poverty, and demonstrating the intersection points with the critical role and responsibilities of local administrations on that framework. Lastly, the current condition of local administrations in Turkey, at poverty alleviation process is analyzed firstly with the evaluation of institutional responsibilities by the previous and newly enacted local laws, secondly budget proportions have been analyzed by the help of 'current transfer expenditures' budget item; finally, technical staff capacity building issue concerns which have a key role at the success of poverty alleviation are evaluated. In that context, relative strengths and weaknesses of local authorities on poverty struggle have discussed, some solution proposals have been given on that dimension. Method: Within the context of the study, literature review has been made concerning poverty and urban poverty; and international institutions reports that highlighting the functions and responsibilities of local administrations at combating poverty and legal framework at national level have been deeply searched. Main Discussion and Conclusions: That study's main assumption has been shaped around that hypothesis, "while at the new political order, decentralization argument let to the attribution of lots of roles and responsibilities to the local administrations, recently, it is seen that local administrations can produce effective poverty alleviation policies only with coordinated and integrated central government upperhand policies; because local administrations cannot take the necessary financial, administrative and human resource power transition that is in harmony and sufficient with their local responsibilities. Consequently, local administrations have no needed financial and technical capacity for being remedy at urban poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on one of the problematic fields of internal migration process in Turkey, this study tries to analyse the problems arose from industrialisation in the physical and social structure in the case of Dilovası district. Sociologically, migration and urbanisation are natural outcomes of social changes. However, it is quiet striking that migration itself actually possesses the ability to lead up to social transformations. Considered in the context of a field of study, Dilovası today can be said to be experiencing urban poverty and lower class localisation conditions significantly and remaining on the agenda with environmental problems. In spite of the fact that the newspaper headings about Dilovası as "cancer plain" are left far behind, it seems that the industry originated problems still remain to be on the agenda. From this perspective, taking into account the case of Dilovası despite the fact that it is limited, the study scrutinises the economical, political and cultural regard to migration phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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