On Materiality and Politics in Turkey: An Introduction Duygu Kasdogan and Ekin Kurtiç PART 1 The Politics of Infrastructure 1 Water Pipes versus Power Lines: GAP Between the Promises and Practices of Infrastructure Build-Up Aybike Alkan 2 Making the Water Infrastructure of Istanbul Visible: Disease, Fountains, Blueprints (1933- 1971) Asya Ece Uzmay 3 "Not for Sale": Coal as a Pedagogical Infrastructure After the Soma Mine Disaster Elif Irem Az 4 Commentary Canay Özden-Schilling PART 2 Making Material Worlds Scientific 5 The Liminal Forest: Mud, Science and Nationalism in Turkey's Forests Hande Özkan 6 Pasture-Cheese Diplomacy: Carving Knowledge in Dairy Technosciences Mehmet Fatih Tatari 7 The Social Life of Environmental Expertise: Leveraging Scientific Knowledge for Remaking Bio-Cultural Communities in Turkish Wetlands Caterina Scaramelli 8 "Is there Oil in Turkey?" Geology, Oil Exploration, and the Indeterminate Materiality of Resources Zeynep Oguz 9 Commentary Ståle Knudsen PART 3 Translating Techniques and Expertise 10 Smoking under a Volcano: Cold War Base Life in Turkish Thrace Sertaç Sen 11 Undoctoring Sport: Constructing Liberal Bodies in Postwar Turkey Can Evren 12 Assembling Gold, Manufacturing Risk: Technopolitics in the Age of the Third Gold Rush Tarik Nejat Dinç 13 Commentary Begüm Adalet 14 Afterword Andrew Barry.