When City Meets Village
A Rhythmanalysis of Lifestyle Migrants’ Everyday Life in Gallipoli, Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21394447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rüya Erkan‐Öcek (0000-0002-4684-2233, Istanbul Technical University, corresponding author), Tolga İslam (0000-0002-2385-7141, Istanbul Technical University) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soru.70044 |
| OpenAlex | W7167581993 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 52 |
This study examines how urban migrants in Turkey's North Aegean Gallipoli Peninsula recompose everyday life and how subtle rural transformations become legible through rhythmic negotiation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2023, we use Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis—together with Ingold's notion of the taskscape—to analyse how time, work and social relations are practically organised after relocation. Gallipoli is a late‐discovered coastal setting where post‐bridge mobility and investment pressures have intensified, yet change remains incremental, compared to longer‐established coastal hotspots shaped by overtourism pressures. Findings trace a progression from arrhythmia (early mismatches between urban linearities and rural cycles) to eurhythmia (attunement to seasonal and communal cues) and towards polyrhythmia, where selected ‘urban beats’ (appointments, work coordination) are braided into rural cyclicality. Across three domains—time, action and community—migrants re‐time days through environmental cues while retaining punctual coordination, shift from outsourcing towards cycles of making, maintaining, repairing and tending and move from urban anonymity to recognisable reciprocal village relations. The Gallipoli case also illustrates a central paradox: Migrants seeking authentic rural life collectively and quietly transform the very qualities they sought
Action (physics) · Ethnography · Everyday life · Rural area · Social life · Temporalities · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Work (physics) · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Rural development and sustainability
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| Highly cited | No |