Conviviality in Burgaz

Living, Loving and Fighting on a Diverse Island of Istanbul
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-52333-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by building on original, long-term ethnographic research (fourteen months in 2009-2010, followed by fieldwork trips until now) on Burgaz, an island home to more than twenty ethnic and religious groups from different socio-economic backgrounds. The island provides an excellent case study of post-Ottoman conviviality, as the homogenisation process during the nation-building stage of modern Turkey triggered migrations from the island, especially of non-Muslims, yet the island’s population retains elements of its Byzantine and Ottoman diversity. The book explores the islanders’ representation of diversity through ethnographic research, media analysis and interviews, and shifts the analytical framework of Post-Ottoman plurality from “coexistence/toleration” to that of conviviality. The author critically engages with the literature on multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism andconceptualises conviviality as both living together in diversity as shared ways of living as well as living with difference. The book further explores the relationship between conviviality, solidarity, coexistence/toleration, intoleration and nationalism.

This is an open access book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duru, Deniz N.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introducing conviviality: Ebru-like Living in Burgaz.- Chapter 2: Embodying Diversity as a Burgaz Islander: Sharing Space, Senses, Memory and Labour.- Chapter 3: Ebru: The Islanders’ Representation of Conviviality.- Chapter 4: Testing the Strength of Conviviality: Love, Intermarriage and Solidarity in a Homogenising Turkish context. Chapter 5: Performance of Pluralism and Labour of Peace: In Between Conviviality and Coexistence/toleration.- Chapter 6: Conviviality and Politics of Recognition: Fixing Ambiguity, Losing Heterogeneity.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Deniz N. Duru is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. She holds a PhD/Dphil in Anthropology from the University of Sussex and worked in the Sociology Department at the University of York and at the Media, Cognition and Communication Department at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include conviviality, multiculturalism, diversity, social media, media anthropology, anthropology of Turkey, and refugees and migrants in Europe. She has published journal articles in the South European Society and Politics, Southeast European and Blacksea Studies and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and several book chapters.She currently teaches Digital Ethnography, Digital Research Methods, Media and Diversity, Public Opinion Building, and Media Content Analysis.