TÜBİTAK 1001 Project
Analysis of the Social, Cultural, Economic and Environmental Consequences of Change in the Agricultural Structure of the Bursa Countryside in Historical Perspective (1907–2023)
A TÜBİTAK 1001 research project in which an interdisciplinary team studies how the agricultural structure of the Bursa countryside changed over more than a century, and what that change meant for village society, culture, economy and environment. The project runs 2026–2028 and is led by Assoc. Prof. Hacer Karabağ Arslan.
- Funding
- TÜBİTAK 1001 – Support Programme for Scientific and Technological Research Projects
- Period
- 2026–2028
- Period studied
- 1907–2023
- Principal investigator
- Assoc. Prof. Hacer Karabağ Arslan (History)
- Advisor
- Prof. Cafer Çiftçi (History)
- Institution
- Bursa Uludağ University
Methods and sources
- Ottoman and Republican archives, and previously unexamined documents of the Hamidiye Agricultural School.
- TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) data.
- 300 oral history interviews and 11 focus group interviews, recording the villages’ own memory.
- Spatial change mapped with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
- Quantitative data analysed statistically with SPSS, qualitative data thematically with MAXQDA.
Goal
To build an “Agricultural History Exhibition” from the collected documents, photographs and oral histories, to preserve the agricultural heritage of Bursa and to raise public awareness of it.
Research team
- Prof. Sertaç Dokuzlu (Agricultural Economics)
- Prof. F. Olcay Topaç (Environmental Engineering)
- Assoc. Prof. M. Berkay Aydın (Sociology)
- Asst. Prof. Zeynep Akan Yetişir (History)
- Res. Asst. Soner Duman (Geography)
- Four doctoral and two master’s scholarship students
The team list follows the announcement of the Bursa Uludağ University Department of History dated 7 August 2025.
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