La modernité est en bas

Ruralité et urbanité chez les habitants d'un gecekondu d'Ankara

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ID2631444
AutoresBenoit Fliche (0000-0001-9686-4062, Institut Français, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen1
Número1
Fecha de publicación2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean journal of Turkish studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1773-0546 • E-ISSN: 1773-0546
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/ejts.67
OpenAlexW1499646429
IdiomaFR
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas11

On the basis of the ruralist image associated with the gecekondu in the sociological literature, this article argues that the concept of ‘urban village’ applied to this urban morphology characterising Turkish cities is not relevant. The ethnological analysis of a gecekondu district located in Ankara shows initially how and in how far former villagers appropriate the urban space of Ankara physically, symbolically and ‘cognitively’. However, this evidence of urbanity does not proof their ‘non – rurality’ and the irrelevance of the urban village’s concept: it is possible to live like a ‘townsman’ in an ‘urban village’. The paper then analyses why and how the village of origin is not a relevant social frame of reference any more for the inhabitants of this district. However, this village continues to evoke. Representations of rurality and urbanity are articulated to give birth to new and original cultural practices which explain the dialogue between urban and rural space in Turkey

Art · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Political science · Regional science · Rural area · Rurality · Sociology · Turkish · Urban space · Urbanity · French Urban and Social Studies · Turkey's Politics and Society