From Mosaic to Ebru: Conviviality in Multi-ethnic, Multi-faith Burgazadası, Istanbul

TY - JOUR

T1 - From Mosaic to Ebru

T2 - Conviviality in Multi-ethnic, Multi-faith Burgazadası, Istanbul

AU - Duru, Deniz Neriman

N1 - Deniz Neriman Duru (PhD University of Sussex, BA SOAS) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Media, Cognition and Communication Department at the University of Copenhagen. She has taught and undertaken several research projects on issues concerning diversity and conviviality in Turkey, on mobility and cross-border practices of Turkish migrants in the UK, Germany, Denmark, and Italy, and on conviviality and the use of social media among foreigners living in Denmark. She is currently working on multiculturalism, mobility, and conviviality in Europe within the euro-crisis context.

PY - 2015/4/3

Y1 - 2015/4/3

N2 - This paper provides an understanding of changing diversity in Burgazadası within the post-Ottoman, homogenising context of Turkey. It critiques conceptualisations of ‘culture as difference’ within the multiculturalism discourse in Europe and of coexistence as the reduction of differences and identities to pre-existing categories of the Ottoman millet system. Instead, it presents post-Ottoman conviviality as a lived practice and grassroots representation of recognised and unrecognised diversities by contextualising the production of differences and changing discourses of pluralism. The article demonstrates that individuals belonging to different groups can come to share similar values based on longstanding attachment to place and everyday practices, thereby representing themselves, in this case, as ‘Burgazlı’.

AB - This paper provides an understanding of changing diversity in Burgazadası within the post-Ottoman, homogenising context of Turkey. It critiques conceptualisations of ‘culture as difference’ within the multiculturalism discourse in Europe and of coexistence as the reduction of differences and identities to pre-existing categories of the Ottoman millet system. Instead, it presents post-Ottoman conviviality as a lived practice and grassroots representation of recognised and unrecognised diversities by contextualising the production of differences and changing discourses of pluralism. The article demonstrates that individuals belonging to different groups can come to share similar values based on longstanding attachment to place and everyday practices, thereby representing themselves, in this case, as ‘Burgazlı’.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - multiculturalism

KW - conviviality

KW - coexistence

KW - minorities

KW - Greek-Turkish relations

KW - anthropology of Pluralism

KW - Turkey

KW - diversity

U2 - 10.1080/13608746.2015.1047080

DO - 10.1080/13608746.2015.1047080

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1360-8746

VL - 20

SP - 243

EP - 263

JO - South European Society and Politics

JF - South European Society and Politics

IS - 2

ER -