Conviviality in Burgaz
Living, Loving and Fighting on a Diverse Island of Istanbul
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introducing Conviviality: Ebru-Like Living in Burgaz
- 2. A Diverse Island in a Homogenising Context
- 3. Representing Conviviality: Emic Concepts Versus Etic Ones
- 4. Exclusions of Conviviality: Negotiation of Space, Ideology, Class, Gender and Lifestyle Differences
- 5. Embodying and Performing Diversity Through Senses
- 6. Conviviality as Performance of Pluralism and Living with Difference: Sociable Sociality and Labour of Peace
- 7. Testing the Strength of Conviviality: Love, Intermarriage and Solidarity in Times of Crisis
- 8. Problematising the Politics of Recognition and Its Impact on Conviviality: Fixing Ambiguity, Losing Heterogeneity
- 9. Conclusion
- Back Matter