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Article Buffalo’s Captured Imaginary: Atmosphere, Absurdity and the Depoliticized Imagination of the Rust Belt(SAGE Publications Inc, 2026) Dincer, Evren MUsing Buffalo, New York, as a key case study, this article examines the cultural grammar through which the American Rust Belt is represented as a site of terminal decline and absurdity. Analyzing films, novels, and memoirs, it argues that a captured imaginary has taken hold, one that converts the systemic crises of deindustrialization into mood, tone, and atmosphere. Narratives of the region frequently deploy irony and absurdity as aesthetic strategies that depoliticize decline, stylizing it as an ambient condition rather than a structural problem to be contested. This representational pattern, often centered on white protagonists, displaces political critique and renders local agency incoherent. By framing these cities as uniquely dysfunctional and incapable of self-renewal, these cultural texts create the ideological conditions for external, technocratic intervention. The article concludes that this aestheticization of collapse is a political act that forecloses democratic possibility and captures the urban imaginary for outside management.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Chasing Coffee: A New Research Agenda in Turkey(Springer, 2020-06) Dincer, Evren M.; Ozcelik, AyseThis article is a call for a new research agenda: a socio-economic analysis of coffee in Turkey. To contextualize the importance and relevance of this effort, it first provides a critical assessment of the literature on coffee in Turkey by focusing on its two main manifestations: historical and sociological constellations. We show how earlier critical engagement with coffee as a commodity and a research subject helped scholars revise and go beyond the existing scholarship. We then claim a similar transformative prospect exists for political-economic manifestations of coffee today. We justify our claim by suggesting six potential research areas with relevant research questions and potentially enriching outcomes.