Abstract:

The aim of this study is to analyze the practices of local governments regarding cultural production in the urban area through naming cultural centers and the activities carried out in these centers. Powers influence people's thoughts and lifestyles using institutional and ideological frameworks. This influence can be carried out at the national level as well as by municipalities with different views at the local level. Municipalities belonging to almost all political parties carry out the identity building process in the urban space by imposing their ideology and approach to the society through various tools. Cultural centers serving under local governments have also been one of the important tools of the urban identity building process. Within the scope of the research, the qualitative data obtained through interviews with cultural center managers and visitors were analyzed in depth using the content analysis technique. As a result of the research, it was understood that both the names that preferred for these spaces and the activities carried out here were used effectively by local governments in the production and reproduction of urban identity.

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