Research Question My central research question is how the experience and collective memory of (mostly forced) Muslim refugeeness — known as muhacirlik in Turkish — is interrelated with the rehabilitation and gentrification of the Ottoman past in significant parts of the political and societal sphere of Turkey and the „Western Balkans“ in the past... Continue Reading →
[Turkey] What is your memleket? Semi-bohemian coffeehouse reflections in Izmir
Yabancı in İzmir In Izmir, I was a hampered and hobbling yabancı (foreigner) with limited contacts, with less "world" than in İstanbul. I moved myself from one to another café every day, where I would contemplate in front of my field diary, throwing myself into the indefinite ocean of writing, contained by my migrant notebook,... Continue Reading →