Papers by Ece Baykal Fide
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & PLANNING, 2023
Responsive land-use policy amid climate change in urban settings includesinfrastructure transfor... more Responsive land-use policy amid climate change in urban settings includesinfrastructure transformation and necessitates recognizing community- andindividual-level vulnerabilities as well as climate-driven injustices, which areisolated in the existing literature. This paper highlights how climate policies set inthe nine cities of Turkey identify vulnerable groups and individuals, and developland-use policy to address the identified vulnerabilities and climate justiceconcerns. Employing policy content analysis and expert interviews, wefind criticalrelationships between the identified vulnerable groups, responsive land-use policy,and climate justice. While social-aid municipalism-related vulnerabilities dominatethe districts’climate policies, nature-based solutions (NBS), especially greeninfrastructure and urban agriculture, emerge as the dominant climate adaptationsolutions. The way urban vulnerabilities are prioritized in the climate andsustainability plans put less emphasis on intersectionality and urban infrastructure-related vulnerabilities. With tokenism of justice taking place in policy documents,the plans do not incorporate vulnerable communities in land-use planning.Ultimately, the complexity of responsive land-use policies for cities must cultivate agreater awareness of how to support vulnerable communities practically
Global Environmental Change, 2023
Although climate policy diffusion is widely studied, we know comparatively little about how these... more Although climate policy diffusion is widely studied, we know comparatively little about how these global policies and the norms that surround them are used by various political actors seeking to advance their own agendas. In this article, we focus on how global climate norms are diffused differently at national and local scales and used to repoliticize or depoliticize climate change. We focus on the case of Turkey, which carries the stark contrast of showing willingness to achieve global climate goals in the international arena but less so in domestic politics and actions. The article employs a novel methodological approach, using topic modeling and network analyses on a range of climate change–related policy documents, and interviews with high-level officers, conducted at the three jurisdictional levels in Turkey. The findings reveal that although global climate policy is diffused to both national and local governments, it is used in different ways at these levels. The national government uses climate policy diffusion to depoliticize climate change by creating ad hoc climate coalitions and limiting local climate actions to seeking external climate-related funds. Meanwhile, the metropolitan municipalities replicate nationally adopted climate goals, whereas the district municipalities domesticate ambitious climate norms and repoliticize climate change via local climate entrepreneurs and civic action. The paper contributes to understanding how climate policy diffusion and norm domestication can have different political outcomes in achieving global climate goals and argues for increased policy attention to the strategic use of climate policy diffusion for the depoliticization of climate change.
KENT AKADEMİSİ | URBAN ACADEMY, 2022
In this article, some of the assumptions commonly put forward in media research about wildfires a... more In this article, some of the assumptions commonly put forward in media research about wildfires and disasters will be examined by exploring how the 2021 fires in Turkey were framed in newspapers with differing editorial and political views. Within the scope of this reporting, the discussion will centre on how these reports of fires, omitted any mention of climate change and its impact on these disasters. Media organizations evaluate disasters through the lens of their geographical and national positions as well as power relations, without associating them with global events such as climate change. The media in Turkey covered the fires within the framework of their current political and social conflicts. This situation has seen newspapers deliver news focused on extinguishing fires, post-disaster response discussions and 'last minute' developments, instead of offering solutions on climate change and the implementation of mitigation or adaptation policies. In this research, through the use of frame analysis method, the approaches and the actors that newspapers represented while covering wildfires are analyzed. In the next phase, news frames are studied whether they are oriented to reveal the causes of the wildfires (diagnostic) or to propose solutions (prognostic) regarding firefighting or climate adaptation policies. The publication which provides most solutions, referred to solutions in 14,2% of all its news. Regardless of their political views all newspapers in the sample generally proposed solutions regarding the recovery process rather than proactive or preventative climate adaptation policies.
Sur le journalisme, About journalism, Sobre jornalismo, 2020
Although the terms “populist,” “populism” and even “people” are deeply ambiguous for theorists wo... more Although the terms “populist,” “populism” and even “people” are deeply ambiguous for theorists working on different aspects of populism in various countries, they have reached a consensus with respect to certain characteristics of populism and its incipient drivers: its emergence following a political or economic crisis (Moffit, ibid.), the presence of a charismatic leader (Taguieff, 2007), etc. The populism of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) in Turkey and its leader can be seen to vary from one era to the other, however. A crisis, triggered by the Gezi Protests in 2013, resulted in the existing populist discourse becoming more personalized, with some scholars calling it Erdoğanism (Bora, 2017). With the support of conservative and right-wing columnists, who framed the protests as a plot against Turkey and its democratically elected leader, Erdoğan realized that it would be possible to benefit from the crisis. This article discusses the role played by pro-government columnists during the Gezi protests and attempts to shed light on the emergence of a new populist discourse. It focuses on columns and in-depth interviews of Islamist-conservative or right-wing columnists (14 of 40 columnists interviewed) and relies on discourse analysis theories that underlie the characteristics of populist discourse (Laclau & Mouffe, 1985; Charaudeau, 2011; Wodak, 2015). The study reveals that the personalization of political power, the argumentation of an economic threat and the demonization of the social groups that joined the protests are the three main elements of the new populist discourse.
Marmara İletişim Dergisi, 2008
Book chapters by Ece Baykal Fide
Ekoloji ve İklim Krizi İletişiminde Adaletin İnşası, 2024
English Below
Etik bir görev olarak ekoloji ve iklim iletişiminde adaletin inşası başlıklı çalışm... more English Below
Etik bir görev olarak ekoloji ve iklim iletişiminde adaletin inşası başlıklı çalışmamda çevre iletişimini hem bir kriz hem de bakım (care) disiplini olarak tanımlayan Pezzulo ve Cox’un (2018) çerçevesinden yararlanıyorum. Yazarlara göre hem krizi hem bakımı merkezine alan bir çevre iletişimi inşa etmek, etik bir görev. Emek ve ekoloji hareketlerini hem birbirleriyle hem de toplumla olan iletişimleri açısından önce tarihsel bir bağlamda ardından hak ve adalet kavramlarının merceğinden inceliyorum. Hak ve adalet odaklı iletişim süreçlerinin ekolojik yıkımları onarmada, bir ‘bakım’ dili kurmaktaki etik rolünün en az yıkımın faillerini sergilemekteki görevi kadar etik bir görev olduğunu, bunun farklı toplumsal hareketlerin mücadelesini ortaklaştırmakta da etkili olacağını ileri sürüyorum.
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I draw on the framework of Pezzulo and Cox (2018) who define environmental communication as both a crisis and a care discipline under the title of “Constructing Justice in Ecology and Climate Communication as an Ethical Duty”. According to the authors, constructing an environmental communication that centers both crisis and care is an ethical duty. I examine labor and ecology movements in terms of their communication with each other and with society, first in a historical context and then through the lens of the concepts of rights and justice. I argue that the ethical role of rights and justice-oriented communication processes in repairing ecological destructions and establishing a language of ‘care’ is at least as much an ethical duty as the duty of exposing the perpetrators of the destruction, and that this will be effective in uniting the struggles of different social movements.
Türkiye'de 9 Gazete, 2009
From Multitude to Crowds Social Movements and Media, 2015
Hakikat Temsil İnşa, 2022
Introduction
Although it is not yet clear where the sixth extinction we are going through will le... more Introduction
Although it is not yet clear where the sixth extinction we are going through will lead, we are already witnessing the rapid extinction of many living species. Amazon forests now emit more carbon dioxide than oxygen. Farmers in India are committing suicide due to drought. People are now migrating due to wars as well as climate change and drought. Walls drawn to the borders, refugees whose boats are turned away on the open sea, few people getting richer in the face of the impoverished masses with the increasingly unfair distribution of income, and rising right populist leaders are shaking the rational paradigm of the modern age.
With the arrival of right-wing populist leaders in power such as Donald Trump in the USA, Boris Johnson in the UK, and Jair Bolsanaro in Brazil, post-truth debates flared up. While the opposition to reason, science and democracy constituted the main points of this discussion (Erdoğan and Uyan-Semerci, 2020), the role of the media in this issue began to be discussed. The effects of climate crises on the planet play an undeniable role in undermining this dominant paradigm. The climate crisis, which is a result of the capitalist production system's destruction of its own development conditions, is effective in destabilizing politics by exacerbating conflicts over resources and causing migration. With the rise of neoliberal authoritarian populist regimes, the number of studies that reveal the relationships between ecological issues and struggles is increasing (McCarthy, 2019).
In this study, although this mutual relationship between ecological issues and neoliberal authoritarian regimes is accepted, it will be tried to show that the economic imagination that triggered the climate crisis (Jessop, 2012) emerged in a historically earlier period. First of all, the Cartesian world view, which provided the intellectual basis for these developments, together with the historical events that were influential in the formation of the dominant economic imagination will be examined. The relationship of modern thought based on dualist Platonist and cartesian perception of reality with today's economic rationality will be discussed. Then, it will be mentioned how the findings of climate science have been distorted and denied by fossil fuel lobbies since the end of the 1980s, when the climate crisis began to be discussed in the field of international politics, and how this form of denial has changed in the last thirty years. It will be revealed how the new types of denialism intertwine economic rationality and ecological reason. How this denialism takes shape in developing economies like Turkey will be shown again through the role of economic actors in this. Finally, the importance of factual reality and truth-telling against the discourses of economic imagination and economic reason will be emphasized and how truth-telling will be related to the climate crisis narrative will be discussed.
Conference presentations by Ece Baykal Fide
CONSTRUCTED|CONSTRUCTIVE JOURNALISM BRUSSELS, 2016
Communication du symbolique et symbolique de la communication dans les sociétés modernes et postmodernes , 2012
Reports by Ece Baykal Fide
Environmental Education and Climate Change Course Current Situation Report, 2024
Türkçe özet aşağıda
This report has been prepared within the scope of the “Development of Rights-... more Türkçe özet aşağıda
This report has been prepared within the scope of the “Development of Rights-Based Education to Tackle the Climate Crisis Project” carried out by the Alternative Media and Communication Association in partnership with the Sabancı Foundation and Newslab Turkey. The report aims to analyze the current status of the Environmental Education and Climate Change Course in terms of content, method and teacher needs.
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Bu rapor Alternatif Medya İletişim Derneği tarafından yürütülen Sabancı Vakfı ve Newslab Turkey ortaklığında hayata geçirilen “İklim Krizi ile Mücadele için Hak Temelli Yaygın Eğitimi Geliştirme Projesi” kapsamında hazırlanmıştır. Rapor Çevre Eğitimi ve İklim Değişikliği Dersinin içerik, yöntem ve öğretmen
ihtiyaçları bağlamında mevcut durumunu analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır.
Türkiye'de Çevre Koruma ve İklim Değişikliği ile Mücadeleye Ayrılan Kamu Kaynaklarının İzlenmesi, 2021
Merkezi ve yerel yönetimlerin Çevre koruma ve İklim Değişikliği ile ilgili 2021 performans progra... more Merkezi ve yerel yönetimlerin Çevre koruma ve İklim Değişikliği ile ilgili 2021 performans programlarının değerlendirilmesi
Report-Environmental Protection and Climate change Expenditures of Metropolitan Municipalities, 2021
TESEV Briefs aim to share with the public different opinions and recommendations on issues that a... more TESEV Briefs aim to share with the public different opinions and recommendations on issues that are under TESEV's working areas.
14 Büyükşehir Belediyesinin 2021-2022 Bütçelerinin karşılaştırılması, 2022
K amu Harcamalarını İzleme Platformu, Türkiye'de kadın, çocuk, gençlik, engelli, sağlık, çevre ha... more K amu Harcamalarını İzleme Platformu, Türkiye'de kadın, çocuk, gençlik, engelli, sağlık, çevre hakkı, iklim adaleti, sosyal haklar alanında çalışan STK'ların kurdukları, çeşitli temalara göre çalışma gruplarına dayalı olarak çalışan bir platformdur. Kamu Harcamalarını İzleme Platformu, parlamentonun kendisine verilen en önemli görev olan vatandaşlardan toplanan vergilerin harcanma sürecini izlemeyi, bu sürecin şeffaf olması için çalışmayı ve sosyal alanlara ve iklim krizi ile mücadeleye yönelik harcamaların arttırılması ve etkin kullanımını savunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Kamu Harcamalarını İzleme Platformu, ■ şeffaf ve hesap verebilir bir çoğulcu demokrasiden yana, ■ siyasi partiler, hükümet ve devletlerden bağımsız, ■ hukukun üstünlüğü, temel hak ve özgürlükler, barış, farklılıklara saygı, ifade özgürlüğü gibi evrensel değerleri benimseyen, ■ katılım, diyalog ve uzlaşma kültürüne bağlı, ■ çevreye saygılı, ■ her türlü ayrımcılığa karşı, ■ hiçbir din, siyasi, etnik vb. görüşün propagandasını yapmama ilkelerini 2 Paris Anlaşması Öncesi ve Sonrası İklim Değişikliğine Yönelik Bütçeler İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİYLE MÜCADELEYE YÖNELİK AYRILAN KAMU KAYNAKLARINI İZLEMENİN KAPSAMI İzleme kapsamında incelenecek, verilerine ulaşılabilen yerel yönetim kurumları şunlardır: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi bağlı kurumlar Adana Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Balıkesir Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Kayseri Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar Muğla Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve bağlı kurumlar
Periodicals, newspapers by Ece Baykal Fide
Bianet, 2021
In today's world, where climate science is redefined in different forms, it is necessary for clim... more In today's world, where climate science is redefined in different forms, it is necessary for climate journalism to consistently reveal the actual causes of the crisis and those responsible.
Books by Ece Baykal Fide
Yeni İnsan Ekoloji Serisi, 2024
Neoliberalizmin bir hegemonya krizinde olduğu özellikle de 2008-2009 ekonomik krizinin arkasından... more Neoliberalizmin bir hegemonya krizinde olduğu özellikle de 2008-2009 ekonomik krizinin arkasından çokça yaygınlaşan bir düşünce olsa da henüz yeni bir hegemonyanın kurulamadığı bir Interregnum döneminde yaşadığımız da dile getiriliyor. Chantal Mouffe’un da aralarında bulunduğu bazı düşünürler ise kutuplaştırıcı sağ popülizme karşı toplumsal muhalefeti birleştirici sol popülist dilin ve bu dilin kurulmasında ekoloji ve iklim aktivistlerinin oynayabileceği rolün öneminden bahsediyor. Türkiye’de ekoloji üzerine bilgi üretenlerin de içinde bulunduğu başka gruplar ise mevcut sosyalist örgütlerin ekolojikleştirilmesiyle böylesi bir hegemonyanın kurulabileceğini ileri sürüyorlar. İşte bu kitap, sosyalist örgütleri de ekoloji ve iklim aktivistlerini de içeren toplumsal hareketlerin ve medya çalışanlarının hegemonik bir söylem kurmasında etkili olabilecek adalet ve hak çerçevelerinin nasıl inşa edilebileceğini farklı alanlardan akademisyen, aktivist ve gazetecilerle birlikte tahayyül etmeyi ve önündeki engelleri tartışarak, bu engellerle mücadeleye katkıda bulunmayı amaçlamaktadır.
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Etik bir görev olarak ekoloji ve iklim iletişiminde adaletin inşası başlıklı çalışmamda çevre iletişimini hem bir kriz hem de bakım (care) disiplini olarak tanımlayan Pezzulo ve Cox’un (2018) çerçevesinden yararlanıyorum. Yazarlara göre hem krizi hem bakımı merkezine alan bir çevre iletişimi inşa etmek, etik bir görev. Emek ve ekoloji hareketlerini hem birbirleriyle hem de toplumla olan iletişimleri açısından önce tarihsel bir bağlamda ardından hak ve adalet kavramlarının merceğinden inceliyorum. Hak ve adalet odaklı iletişim süreçlerinin ekolojik yıkımları onarmada, bir ‘bakım’ dili kurmaktaki etik rolünün en az yıkımın faillerini sergilemekteki görevi kadar etik bir görev olduğunu, bunun farklı toplumsal hareketlerin mücadelesini ortaklaştırmakta da etkili olacağını ileri sürüyorum.
ENG
I draw on the framework of Pezzulo and Cox (2018) who define environmental communication as both a crisis and a care discipline under the title of “Constructing Justice in Ecology and Climate Communication as an Ethical Duty”. According to the authors, constructing an environmental communication that centers both crisis and care is an ethical duty. I examine labor and ecology movements in terms of their communication with each other and with society, first in a historical context and then through the lens of the concepts of rights and justice. I argue that the ethical role of rights and justice-oriented communication processes in repairing ecological destructions and establishing a language of ‘care’ is at least as much an ethical duty as the duty of exposing the perpetrators of the destruction, and that this will be effective in uniting the struggles of different social movements.
Although it is not yet clear where the sixth extinction we are going through will lead, we are already witnessing the rapid extinction of many living species. Amazon forests now emit more carbon dioxide than oxygen. Farmers in India are committing suicide due to drought. People are now migrating due to wars as well as climate change and drought. Walls drawn to the borders, refugees whose boats are turned away on the open sea, few people getting richer in the face of the impoverished masses with the increasingly unfair distribution of income, and rising right populist leaders are shaking the rational paradigm of the modern age.
With the arrival of right-wing populist leaders in power such as Donald Trump in the USA, Boris Johnson in the UK, and Jair Bolsanaro in Brazil, post-truth debates flared up. While the opposition to reason, science and democracy constituted the main points of this discussion (Erdoğan and Uyan-Semerci, 2020), the role of the media in this issue began to be discussed. The effects of climate crises on the planet play an undeniable role in undermining this dominant paradigm. The climate crisis, which is a result of the capitalist production system's destruction of its own development conditions, is effective in destabilizing politics by exacerbating conflicts over resources and causing migration. With the rise of neoliberal authoritarian populist regimes, the number of studies that reveal the relationships between ecological issues and struggles is increasing (McCarthy, 2019).
In this study, although this mutual relationship between ecological issues and neoliberal authoritarian regimes is accepted, it will be tried to show that the economic imagination that triggered the climate crisis (Jessop, 2012) emerged in a historically earlier period. First of all, the Cartesian world view, which provided the intellectual basis for these developments, together with the historical events that were influential in the formation of the dominant economic imagination will be examined. The relationship of modern thought based on dualist Platonist and cartesian perception of reality with today's economic rationality will be discussed. Then, it will be mentioned how the findings of climate science have been distorted and denied by fossil fuel lobbies since the end of the 1980s, when the climate crisis began to be discussed in the field of international politics, and how this form of denial has changed in the last thirty years. It will be revealed how the new types of denialism intertwine economic rationality and ecological reason. How this denialism takes shape in developing economies like Turkey will be shown again through the role of economic actors in this. Finally, the importance of factual reality and truth-telling against the discourses of economic imagination and economic reason will be emphasized and how truth-telling will be related to the climate crisis narrative will be discussed.
Conference presentations by Ece Baykal Fide
Reports by Ece Baykal Fide
This report has been prepared within the scope of the “Development of Rights-Based Education to Tackle the Climate Crisis Project” carried out by the Alternative Media and Communication Association in partnership with the Sabancı Foundation and Newslab Turkey. The report aims to analyze the current status of the Environmental Education and Climate Change Course in terms of content, method and teacher needs.
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Bu rapor Alternatif Medya İletişim Derneği tarafından yürütülen Sabancı Vakfı ve Newslab Turkey ortaklığında hayata geçirilen “İklim Krizi ile Mücadele için Hak Temelli Yaygın Eğitimi Geliştirme Projesi” kapsamında hazırlanmıştır. Rapor Çevre Eğitimi ve İklim Değişikliği Dersinin içerik, yöntem ve öğretmen
ihtiyaçları bağlamında mevcut durumunu analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır.
Periodicals, newspapers by Ece Baykal Fide
Books by Ece Baykal Fide