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Gökçe Günel, Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019, xi + 256 pages.

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Gökçe Günel, Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019, xi + 256 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2019

Kutay Kutlu
Kutay Kutlu*
Affiliation:
Marmara University
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 61 , November 2019 , pp. 175 - 179
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References

1 Latour, Bruno, Aramis, or the Love of Technology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996)Google Scholar.

2 See “Turkey’s Main Opposition Vows to Build a New Mega City,” Hürriyet Daily News, May 21, 2015, http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkeys-main-opposition-vows-to-build-new-mega-city-82743.

3 Republic of Turkey Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, 2015–2019 Strategic Plan, February 17, 2015, https://www.enerji.gov.tr/en-US/Strategic-Plan.

4 Republic of Turkey Ministry of Development, Turkey’s Sustainable Development Report: Claiming the Future, June 2012, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/853turkey.pdf.

5 See, e.g., Turhan, Ethemcan and Gündoğan, Arif Cem, “The Post-politics of the Green Economy in Turkey: Re-claiming the Future?” Journal of Political Ecology 24, no. 1 (2017): 277–295.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 See, e.g., Islar, Mine, “Struggles for Recognition: Privatisation of Water Use Rights of Turkish Rivers,” Local Environment 17, no. 3 (2012): 317–329 and Sinan Erensu, “Fragile Energy: Power, Nature, and the Politics of Infrastructure in the ‘New Turkey’” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar