A Shining Icon of Progress: The Keban Dam as a ‘Turning Point’ for Infrastructural Development in Turkey

Laurent Dissard (1, 2)

1 CETOBaC - Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques
2 ITEM - Identités, Territoires, Expressions, Mobilités

Dams around the world no longer seem to be part of the utopian dreams of nation-state building like a century ago. Instead they have become associated with the broken hopes of displaced people and the destruction of ecological habitats. In Eastern Turkey, this article asks what has changed since the building of the Keban Dam on the Upper Euphrates in the late 1960s?

Mots clés: Infrastructure; Keban; Turkey; Nationalism; Infrastructure; Infrastructure

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Etudes de l'environnement; Histoire; Géographie

Laurent Dissard. A Shining Icon of Progress: The Keban Dam as a ‘Turning Point’ for Infrastructural Development in Turkey. International Water Power and Dam Construction, 2016, 68 (9), pp.20-22. ⟨hal-02169152⟩