(Institute of Social Sciences, 2017)
Şahin, Elif; Erbil, Aslı Öğüt; 479278; Political Studies; Siyaset Çalışmaları
This study analyzes the HEPP protests occurred in 2002-2016 years in Turkey through the framework of environmental justice. The problem which inspired this study is based on the idea that the environmental justice concept does not explicitly used for HEPP protests that manifested as a reaction to Turkey's energy politics within last fourteen years. The hypothesis of the research is that environmental justice related discourses are embedded in HEPP protesters' claims in Turkey even though they do not consciously use this framework and its principles. In this context, the aim of the study is to test the hypothesis that whether related dimensions; for example, the distributional dimension procedural dimensions of environmental justice exist in the discourses of HEPP protesters.