Mavi Boncuk |Production of Multicultural Space by Turkish Immigrants A Paperback edition by Figen Uzar[1]
Author Figen Uzar
ISBN-139783836482417
Format Paperback,
Publisher VDM Verlag
Dr. Mueller E.K.
Publication date Apr 10, 2008
Pages116
Product dimensions 159 x 235 x 13mm
This study aims to show different ways of using space by immigrants from Turkey in Berlin which have led to the production of multicultural space, which is actually a hybrid configuration. In this production process, Turkish immigrants, as "social bricoleurs", employ multiculturalism as one of their tactics of everyday life in order to turn the "conceived space" of the authorities into their "lived space". The result is a number of spatial arrangements which occur through the appropriation of space by certain groups of Turkish immigrants according to age and gender. Case study of a neighborhood of Berlin, which is Wedding, and a street in this neighborhood, Badstraße, are used in order to illustrate this thesis of the study. It can be useful for anyone who wants to read a critical overview of multiculturalism and its effects on the "immigrant space".
[1] Figen Uzar studied Sociology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey and received her MSc. Degree in European Urban Studies from Bauhaus Universität, Weimar. She is currently a PhD student and research assistant at Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Her areas of interest are international migration, urban sociology and policy.
See also: Yüz Karası Değil Kömür Karası: Zonguldak
by Atilla Barutçu (Editor), Figen Uzar Özdemir (Editor)A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON HOUSEWIVES AND HOUSEWIFERY
Figen UZAR ÖZDEMİR| Bülent Ecevit University, Department of Sociology
"....Housewifery is a state of womanhood which is often rendered invisible. A series of factors comes together and causes this situation. Among some of the most important factors are the underestimation of housewives’ contribution to the economy, definition of motherhood and household chores as women’s primary duties by the patriarchal culture and religions’ sanctifying motherhood and housewifery roles by making women the keepers of tradition and religion. Nevertheless, there are spheres where housewifery becomes visible through the consideration of housewives as a consumer group. Advertisement slogans such as “credit possibility for housewives”, “individual pension scheme for housewives” and “special price for housewives” might be familiar to all of us. In this article, I discuss housewifery as a sociological category; how this category has been discussed and conceptualized historically; the relationship between housewifery and household chores; the factors which render housewives invisible and the types of relationships housewifery embodies with examples from the Turkish context. While doing this, I try to examine housewifery through a relational analysis. ..."
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