Muhtelif İşlerin Kentsel Dönüşümü: Çinçin Bağları Saha Notları Üzerinden Eleştirel Bir Çerçeve.

This article aims to re-frame an example of urban transformation through the consideration of the collective spatial narratives of second and third-generation urban migrants who are still living in Çinçin Bağları. The method utilized in the research is the interpretation of historical data and collected spatial narratives. During the fieldwork conducted between May 2018 and May-September 2019, autoethnographic mapping and feminist methodologies were used. The research findings can be summarized in the following threefold proposition: (i) The participants' collective spatial narratives point out that the primary history of the area is one of labor. Çinçin is described as being a district that includes various workers, from undocumented cemetery workers to unpaid houseworkers, from shopkeepers to street vendors, from musicians working in the entertainment industry, to documented workers in different service sectors, from artists and actors to civil servants. (ii) The narratives demonstrate that work represents not only an economic, but also as a socio-spatial institution, and that the workers from a diversity of professions all share the collective claim of "we'ness", in the sense of "being from Çinçin." This claim is also evidence of resistance against stigmatization and the erasure of local memories. (iii) The narratives ultimately point to dialectical relationship consisting of historical, non-stationary, multi-actor, and dialectical aspects that exist between work and urban transformation. This interpretive framework draws attention to the fact that the foundational dialectical relationship that historically exists between work and urbanization, and then work and state-led urban transformation, goes beyond a mere consideration of urban rent and housing. Instead, this relationship demonstrates how the transformation reflects the lives of multiple actors in a wide range of professions. This framework leads to the production of a critical ground for proposing labor-centered urban processes, consisting of multiple actors' urban experiences of diverse works, through the analysis of the distinctive history of places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]