The Collective Turkish Home in Vienna: Aesthetic Narratives of Migration and Belonging

Savaş, Özlem

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“…Do people who are deprived politically, like the Palestinians, tend to define home as a public collective element? Is there a sense of collective belonging among the Jews and the Palestinians as there is among Turkish residents in Vienna who position themselves in a complex web of diasporic relations through the materiality and aesthetics of their home (Savaş 2010)? Can we define the Jewish and Palestinian homes as part of mobile cultures (Tolia-Kelly 2006)?…”

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Fenster

2013

Home Cultures

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This article conceptualizes "home" by using a new method that incorporates address and movement (between addresses) as significant elements in understanding what is home for Jewish migrant and Palestinian indigenous women over seventy living in Israel. Focusing on women's movement between addresses, I aim to explore the multiple meanings of home within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and especially the differences between Jewish immigrants and Palestinian indigenous people that took place in 1948 as reflected in some of the cases analyzed.The article begins with a brief overview of the literature on home as connected to the notions of belonging, memory, migration, movement, and refugeeism. It then introduces the life stories of the Jewish and Palestinian women, followed by a discussion of the home materialities of the homiest and the least homey address as reflected verbally and visually in the cognitive temporal mapping process.

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Moving Between Addresses

Fenster

2013

Home Cultures

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“…Though literature on house materiality for migrants is emerging, its main focus has been the exploration of housing interiors of migrant groups, especially those who migrated from traditional societies to western societies (Tolia-Kelly, 2003;Dibbits, 2009;Savas, 2010;Turan, 2010). Tolia-Kelly (2003: 326-7) examines artefacts in homes of South Asian women in Britain.…”

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“…Whether it is their study or the kitchen, Moroccan participants wish to foster the feeling of community through their house materiality (Savas, 2010, Turan, 2010, but always in relation to Israeli society.…”

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“This is for the Children, the Grandchildren …”: Houses of Moroccan Immigrants in Metropolitan Tel Aviv

Levin

2013

Housing, Theory and Society

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The meaning of migrant housing materiality has not been adequately researched, especially when compared to the meaning of the home for immigrants, a matter of extensive discussion in the past two decades. This paper focuses on the meaning of housing materiality for twelve immigrants who migrated from Morocco to Israel some 60 years ago.Drawing on qualitative data gathered in 2007 and 2008, the paper develops a theoretical framework considering 'house as community' and 'house materiality' as two interrelating explanations for the migrant housing materiality. Through this framework, the paper first explores former houses of participants in Morocco and then presents current houses in Tel Aviv, Israel, to establish links between the two housing forms and reveal the meanings of objects in the homes. It is argued that as a reaction to the dominant Israeli society, housing materiality enables participants to educate successive generations and Israeli society about the rich cultural life of Moroccan-Jews that existed before their migration to Israel.

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“…Elsewhere (Savaş, 2010), I discussed how the aesthetic and material practices of making homes intertwine with processes of constituting a collective diasporic belonging. The 'typically Turkish home' (see Figure 5), achieved by a normative taste on home decoration, serves as an aesthetic and social medium by which both a coherent collectivity is imagined and objectified and social differentiations are achieved.…”

Section: The Collective 'Turkish Taste': Dwelling and Belonging Throumentioning

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Taste diaspora: The aesthetic and material practice of belonging

Savaş

2014

Journal of Material Culture

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A particular 'Turkish taste in Vienna', which has been formed through experiences of migration from Turkey and resettlement in Vienna, serves as a significant aesthetic and social medium for constituting a collective sense of belonging. This article explores how Turkish people in Vienna constitute, perform and enunciate belongings through practices and discourses around travelling forms and spaces of material culture. Underpinned by an ethnography founded on a repertoire of Turkish objects in Vienna, this article addresses the relational constitution of a particular taste and a diasporic belonging within a specific context of displacement and relocation of both people and material objects. 'Taste diaspora' refers to a certain diasporic sphere that is formed through a collective taste in material objects and enunciated in the aesthetics of the everyday.

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The Collective Turkish Home in Vienna: Aesthetic Narratives of Migration and Belonging

Cited by 19 publications

References 36 publications

Moving Between Addresses

Moving Between Addresses

“This is for the Children, the Grandchildren …”: Houses of Moroccan Immigrants in Metropolitan Tel Aviv

Taste diaspora: The aesthetic and material practice of belonging

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