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Dissertation by Önder Eren Akgül
Unpublished Dissertation, Georgetown University, 2022
This dissertation is an entangled history of capitalism, environment, and labor in Western Anatol... more This dissertation is an entangled history of capitalism, environment, and labor in Western Anatolia-the rural hinterland of the Ottoman Empire's major commercial port city of Izmirbetween the 1850s and 1910s. Focusing on two environmental scales-lowland plains and valleys and mountain forests-this dissertation illustrates how local, regional, imperial, and global capitalists employed a set of technologies to appropriate nature and subordinate labor into the circuit of capital during a moment of mounting global and local markets, the subsequent expansion of commodity production in the region, and fiscal crisis in the Ottoman Empire. It examines two economic spaces as case studies: landed estates known as çiftliks that were owned by capitalist land entrepreneurs; and forest tracts, over which capitalist entrepreneurs secured control and exploitation rights via concessions auctioned by the state. Drawing upon Ottoman, Turkish, and British archival sources, this dissertation traces the two main processes that marked the local trajectory of accumulation and dispossession, and development of capitalist relations of exploitation in the region's lowland and highland environments: the primitive accumulation of rural commons and capital, and the subsumption of labor-and hence nature-into capital.
Papers by Önder Eren Akgül
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2024
, Ahmed Cemal Pasha departed Istanbul's Haydarpaşa railway station for Damascus. A few weeks prio... more , Ahmed Cemal Pasha departed Istanbul's Haydarpaşa railway station for Damascus. A few weeks prior to his departure-after the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary on October 29-Enver Pasha, the minister of war, invited Cemal Pasha to his mansion. At this meeting, Enver Pasha requested that Cemal Pasha, who was then minister of the navy, take up the post of governor-general of the Greater Syrian provinces and assume command of the Fourth Army. Cemal Pasha enthusiastically accepted Enver Pasha's offer to, in his words, "prepare for and carry out an attack on the (Suez) Canal, and also to maintain security and internal order in (Greater) Syria." 1 He secured his existing ministerial post in addition to gaining full authority as the commander of the Fourth Army and governor of the Greater Syrian provinces. Before his train departed from Haydarpaşa, Cemal Pasha addressed the crowd who had gathered there to see him, describing his mission as the "divine but extraordinarily difficult" duty of "saving Egypt from British invaders." 2 Upon his arrival in Damascus, Cemal Pasha devoted himself to "execute[ing] the Egyptian expedition along with the defense of Syria." 3 He wrote to Istanbul that he would personally command the campaign and do whatever necessary to address the issue of provisions for the army's march across the Sinai Desert; the same march that had thwarted the first expedition. 4 However, the Ottoman military expedition he commanded in January-February 1915 failed, leading the Fourth Army's Ottoman and German military leadership to conclude that any prospect of success would first require overcoming the Sinai Desert's inhospitable environment, climate, and topography in order to transport soldiers to the canal and supply them with water and food. Following the failed attack, the Ottoman army retreated from the Suez Canal to Beersheba. In what followed, Ottoman decision makers-Cemal Pasha first and foremosttogether with German and Austrian military colleagues, waged war on the desert from February 1915 to January 1917, between the failures of the first and second Suez expeditions. The war on the desert involved the militarization of the Sinai landscape through various modes of manipulation, including the construction of railways and motorways, the digging of
Toplumsal Tarih 312, 2019
Toplumsal Tarih 312, 2019
Book Reviews by Önder Eren Akgül
Technology and Culture, 2024
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 1, 2019
Interviews by Önder Eren Akgül
Toplumsal Tarih 312, 2019
Ottoman History Podcast by Önder Eren Akgül
Ottoman History Podcast 435, 2019
World War I and along with it the life of Talaat Pasha, who headed the Ottoman Ministry of Interi... more World War I and along with it the life of Talaat Pasha, who headed the Ottoman Ministry of Interior and became empire’s Grand Vizier after 1917, remain contentious in Turkey today. Hans-Lukas Kieser, professor at Australia’s Newcastle University, has recently published a pioneering biography of Talaat Pasha, which casts him as the primary author of the Armenian Genocide and a founder of modern Turkey. In this episode, we sit down with Kieser to talk about this new book and the significance of Talaat Pasha not only for understanding the history of the late Ottoman Empire but also Europe during an era of extremes.
Ottoman History Podcast 432, 2019
Ottoman History Podcast’in bu bölümünde Ayşe Ozil ile geç Osmanlı döneminde millet sisteminin ne ... more Ottoman History Podcast’in bu bölümünde Ayşe Ozil ile geç Osmanlı döneminde millet sisteminin ne ifade ettiğini, Rum cemaatini, cemaat kavramının kendisini, Rum topluluklarının devlet ile ilişkisini ve bu ilişkinin ondokuzuncu yüzyıl ortalarından itibaren ne tür değişimler geçirdiğini konuştuk.
Ottoman History Podcast 415, 2019
Bu bölümde Erol Ülker ile 1918 - 1923 yılları arasında İstanbul'da işgal güçlerine karşı oluşan d... more Bu bölümde Erol Ülker ile 1918 - 1923 yılları arasında İstanbul'da işgal güçlerine karşı oluşan direniş hareketini, bu hareket içerisinde yer alan İttihatçılar'dan, komünistlere farklı kesimlerin siyasal faaliyetlerini, birbirileri ile olan ilişkilerini ve gerilimlerini konuştuk. Ayrıca dönem içinde çok canlı olan işçi hareketine ve aynı zamanda da İstanbullu gayr-i Müslimler tarafından bu dönemin nasıl deneyimlendiğine değindik.
Ottoman History Podcast 410, 2019
Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde Doğan Çetinkaya ile 1908 - 1914 yılları arasında Osmanlı ... more Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde Doğan Çetinkaya ile 1908 - 1914 yılları arasında Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda ortaya çıkan boykot hareketlerine odaklanarak, II. Meşrutiyet dönemindeki kitle hareketi mefhumunu, toplumsal sınıfların siyasal alandaki yeni rollerini, Müslüman-Türk milliyetçiliğin aşağıdan toplumsal bir olgu olarak gelişimini ve Osmanlı toplumsal ve siyasal ikliminde bu kısa zaman zarfında ortaya çıkan dönüşümleri ve kırılmaları konuştuk.
Ottoman History Podcast 392, 2018
Bu bölümde Stefo Benlisoy ile II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Osmanlı sosyalist ve işçi hareketinin oluş... more Bu bölümde Stefo Benlisoy ile II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Osmanlı sosyalist ve işçi hareketinin oluşumunu ve gelişimini konuşup Osmanlı'daki sosyalist grupların faaliyetlerini, yayınlarını, ve geliştirdiği siyasal perspektifleri incelemenin Osmanlı-Türkiye tarihini ve tarih yazımını anlamak açısından nasıl alternatif kanallar açabileceğine değindik. Özel olarak da Mayıs 1909’dan başlayarak İstanbul’da örgütlenmeye çalışan, Ergatis adlı bir gazete çıkaran, ağırlığını Rumlar’ın oluşturduğu Türkiye Sosyalist Merkezi örgütünü, bu örgütün İstanbul’daki işçilerle, imparatorluktaki diğer sosyalist çevrelerle ve uluslarası sosyalist hareketle ilişkilerini, ve ayrıca gazete sayfalarında feminizmin nasıl yer bulduğunu ele aldık.
Podcast by Önder Eren Akgül
Unpublished Dissertation, Georgetown University, 2022
This dissertation is an entangled history of capitalism, environment, and labor in Western Anatol... more This dissertation is an entangled history of capitalism, environment, and labor in Western Anatolia-the rural hinterland of the Ottoman Empire's major commercial port city of Izmirbetween the 1850s and 1910s. Focusing on two environmental scales-lowland plains and valleys and mountain forests-this dissertation illustrates how local, regional, imperial, and global capitalists employed a set of technologies to appropriate nature and subordinate labor into the circuit of capital during a moment of mounting global and local markets, the subsequent expansion of commodity production in the region, and fiscal crisis in the Ottoman Empire. It examines two economic spaces as case studies: landed estates known as çiftliks that were owned by capitalist land entrepreneurs; and forest tracts, over which capitalist entrepreneurs secured control and exploitation rights via concessions auctioned by the state. Drawing upon Ottoman, Turkish, and British archival sources, this dissertation traces the two main processes that marked the local trajectory of accumulation and dispossession, and development of capitalist relations of exploitation in the region's lowland and highland environments: the primitive accumulation of rural commons and capital, and the subsumption of labor-and hence nature-into capital.
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2024
, Ahmed Cemal Pasha departed Istanbul's Haydarpaşa railway station for Damascus. A few weeks prio... more , Ahmed Cemal Pasha departed Istanbul's Haydarpaşa railway station for Damascus. A few weeks prior to his departure-after the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary on October 29-Enver Pasha, the minister of war, invited Cemal Pasha to his mansion. At this meeting, Enver Pasha requested that Cemal Pasha, who was then minister of the navy, take up the post of governor-general of the Greater Syrian provinces and assume command of the Fourth Army. Cemal Pasha enthusiastically accepted Enver Pasha's offer to, in his words, "prepare for and carry out an attack on the (Suez) Canal, and also to maintain security and internal order in (Greater) Syria." 1 He secured his existing ministerial post in addition to gaining full authority as the commander of the Fourth Army and governor of the Greater Syrian provinces. Before his train departed from Haydarpaşa, Cemal Pasha addressed the crowd who had gathered there to see him, describing his mission as the "divine but extraordinarily difficult" duty of "saving Egypt from British invaders." 2 Upon his arrival in Damascus, Cemal Pasha devoted himself to "execute[ing] the Egyptian expedition along with the defense of Syria." 3 He wrote to Istanbul that he would personally command the campaign and do whatever necessary to address the issue of provisions for the army's march across the Sinai Desert; the same march that had thwarted the first expedition. 4 However, the Ottoman military expedition he commanded in January-February 1915 failed, leading the Fourth Army's Ottoman and German military leadership to conclude that any prospect of success would first require overcoming the Sinai Desert's inhospitable environment, climate, and topography in order to transport soldiers to the canal and supply them with water and food. Following the failed attack, the Ottoman army retreated from the Suez Canal to Beersheba. In what followed, Ottoman decision makers-Cemal Pasha first and foremosttogether with German and Austrian military colleagues, waged war on the desert from February 1915 to January 1917, between the failures of the first and second Suez expeditions. The war on the desert involved the militarization of the Sinai landscape through various modes of manipulation, including the construction of railways and motorways, the digging of
Toplumsal Tarih 312, 2019
Toplumsal Tarih 312, 2019
Technology and Culture, 2024
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 1, 2019
Toplumsal Tarih 312, 2019
Ottoman History Podcast 435, 2019
World War I and along with it the life of Talaat Pasha, who headed the Ottoman Ministry of Interi... more World War I and along with it the life of Talaat Pasha, who headed the Ottoman Ministry of Interior and became empire’s Grand Vizier after 1917, remain contentious in Turkey today. Hans-Lukas Kieser, professor at Australia’s Newcastle University, has recently published a pioneering biography of Talaat Pasha, which casts him as the primary author of the Armenian Genocide and a founder of modern Turkey. In this episode, we sit down with Kieser to talk about this new book and the significance of Talaat Pasha not only for understanding the history of the late Ottoman Empire but also Europe during an era of extremes.
Ottoman History Podcast 432, 2019
Ottoman History Podcast’in bu bölümünde Ayşe Ozil ile geç Osmanlı döneminde millet sisteminin ne ... more Ottoman History Podcast’in bu bölümünde Ayşe Ozil ile geç Osmanlı döneminde millet sisteminin ne ifade ettiğini, Rum cemaatini, cemaat kavramının kendisini, Rum topluluklarının devlet ile ilişkisini ve bu ilişkinin ondokuzuncu yüzyıl ortalarından itibaren ne tür değişimler geçirdiğini konuştuk.
Ottoman History Podcast 415, 2019
Bu bölümde Erol Ülker ile 1918 - 1923 yılları arasında İstanbul'da işgal güçlerine karşı oluşan d... more Bu bölümde Erol Ülker ile 1918 - 1923 yılları arasında İstanbul'da işgal güçlerine karşı oluşan direniş hareketini, bu hareket içerisinde yer alan İttihatçılar'dan, komünistlere farklı kesimlerin siyasal faaliyetlerini, birbirileri ile olan ilişkilerini ve gerilimlerini konuştuk. Ayrıca dönem içinde çok canlı olan işçi hareketine ve aynı zamanda da İstanbullu gayr-i Müslimler tarafından bu dönemin nasıl deneyimlendiğine değindik.
Ottoman History Podcast 410, 2019
Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde Doğan Çetinkaya ile 1908 - 1914 yılları arasında Osmanlı ... more Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde Doğan Çetinkaya ile 1908 - 1914 yılları arasında Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda ortaya çıkan boykot hareketlerine odaklanarak, II. Meşrutiyet dönemindeki kitle hareketi mefhumunu, toplumsal sınıfların siyasal alandaki yeni rollerini, Müslüman-Türk milliyetçiliğin aşağıdan toplumsal bir olgu olarak gelişimini ve Osmanlı toplumsal ve siyasal ikliminde bu kısa zaman zarfında ortaya çıkan dönüşümleri ve kırılmaları konuştuk.
Ottoman History Podcast 392, 2018
Bu bölümde Stefo Benlisoy ile II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Osmanlı sosyalist ve işçi hareketinin oluş... more Bu bölümde Stefo Benlisoy ile II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Osmanlı sosyalist ve işçi hareketinin oluşumunu ve gelişimini konuşup Osmanlı'daki sosyalist grupların faaliyetlerini, yayınlarını, ve geliştirdiği siyasal perspektifleri incelemenin Osmanlı-Türkiye tarihini ve tarih yazımını anlamak açısından nasıl alternatif kanallar açabileceğine değindik. Özel olarak da Mayıs 1909’dan başlayarak İstanbul’da örgütlenmeye çalışan, Ergatis adlı bir gazete çıkaran, ağırlığını Rumlar’ın oluşturduğu Türkiye Sosyalist Merkezi örgütünü, bu örgütün İstanbul’daki işçilerle, imparatorluktaki diğer sosyalist çevrelerle ve uluslarası sosyalist hareketle ilişkilerini, ve ayrıca gazete sayfalarında feminizmin nasıl yer bulduğunu ele aldık.