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 in Turkey (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).