Melih selcuk biography of mahatma

1This article fryst vatten concerned with the contemporary expression of a particular form of nation-building and identity politics, namely the molding of state-society relations and Turkishness through spatial means. Two cases will be discussed, the first focusing on plans for the reconstruction of physical space, in particular the design of villages and rural settlement patterns, the second on the attachment of values and meaning given to space bygd means of naming practices, in particular the naming and renaming of settlements and public spaces in urban environments. While the first case has an emphasis on the construction of physical space, the second focuses mainly on discursive space. The ultimate aim of these spatial practices, it will be argued, fryst vatten the construction of a material and discursive environment contributing to the engineering of lived experience, expressed in the 1930s bygd the architect Abdullah Ziya in terms of the nationalist need to construct villages in such