Making Memorial Publics: Media, Monuments, and the Politics of Commemoration Following Turkey’s July 2016 Coup Attempt

Hammond, Timur

doi:10.1080/00167428.2019.1702429

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“…We can examine disruptions and continuities by excavating historical and forgotten occurrences (Keightley, 2010) and identifying placeworlds. "Memorial publics" can also be created (see Hammond, 2020;Igsiz, 2018;Navaro, 2012) by constructing placeworlds of shared trauma.…”

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Permanences Against Cultural Amnesia: Reconstructing the Urban Narrative of the Rum Community of Fener, Istanbul

Toprak

2023

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In this article I reconstruct the place narrative of the Rum community (Greeks of Turkey) in Fener, Istanbul through unrest, displacement, and gentrification, and how the urban fabric, everyday life, and encounters transformed through different phases of urban change. Fener was a neighbourhood where cultural groups coexisted with mutual respect. This environment started to deteriorate when societal unrest towards non-Muslims resulted in a city-wide assault in 1955 and a subsequent displacement of many non-Muslims from the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood decayed and later became an attractive spot for gentrifiers because of its multicultural history. This implicated a massive physical change after an unimplemented regeneration project leading to gentrification. I theorize this narrative mainly based on Whitehead’s “permanences,” the stabilities in the physical and non-physical presence of Rums in Fener and Bhabha’s “in-between temporalities” as complements of permanences, defining space-time envelopes that signify both adjustment and resilience, but also amnesia as a result of urban unrest through social and physical change. The Rum urban narrative provides a complex story of challenged community identity; therefore, it necessitates the use of several qualitative research methods: interviews with older residents, historical investigation with documentation, and personal observation. The study results show that the Rum community’s daily practices and placeworlds were lost; however, the community remembers permanences better than in-between temporalities. Linking fragmented narratives by reconstructing them fights cultural amnesia and leads to a better connection with place and past contexts.

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Permanences Against Cultural Amnesia: Reconstructing the Urban Narrative of the Rum Community of Fener, Istanbul

Toprak

2023

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“…Thus, there has been a long-standing interest within geography to how discourses and material practices of remembering serve the interests of those with power, most notably nation-states (e.g. Hammond, 2020; Nagle, 2016). This relates to a critical engagement with institutionalized discourses of a shared past providing identification with the respective nation, thereby affirming an existing political, economic and social regime.…”

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“…This is shown by Till’s (1999, 2005) works on Berlin’s changing landscape of memory, and Azaryahu’s (2003) analysis of the different configurations of political meaning attributed to the former concentration camp of Buchenwald, which Charlesworth (1994) recounts in relation to Auschwitz. Hammond (2020) illustrated how Turkish president Erdogan’s consolidation of power via ‘political, legal and economic changes’ (p. 540) was also enacted through the construction of a landscape of memory mourning the ‘martyrs’ of the July 2016 coup. Therefore, geographers have repeatedly stressed how the making of places of memory acts as a symbolic expression of state power and hegemonic discourses on national identity, thus, playing part in the ‘ongoing legitimation of the state’ (Mitchell, 2003: 445).…”

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‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

Kübler

2023

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In recent decades, social and cultural memories have been much discussed in human geography. In line with an increasing interest in the nexus between memory and social justice, this article theoretically investigates the political geographies of remembering and its emancipatory potential. Surveying recent literature on the topic, I argue for a more nuanced consideration of capitalist thought forms as generally hindering remembrance. To pin down this argument, I draw on Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectics, stressing the all-encroaching totality of capitalist thought forms while adhering to the hope of overcoming them. While this perspective stresses how capitalist relations render remembrance precarious, it also enables us to conceptualize spontaneous, embodied moments of memory as acts of resistance against the dominance of these capitalist thought forms. Thus, this article introduces negative dialectics as an approach to consider how places of memory might challenge capitalist relations by circumventing the respective thought forms and transforming society through tenderness and solidarity between diverse people.

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“…As mentioned before Ahiska means Vatan that referred to homeland in Turkish doesn't mean a geographical location rather a home that attached to Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks identity. Sahin (2014) (Hammond, 2020).…”

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Commemoration and Memorialization of Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks in Türkiye Foreign Ministry’s Commemoration Statements-(2015-2021)

Alkan¹

2022

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This study aims at exploring press release regarding Anniversaries of the Deportation of Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks from their homeland commemoration statement by Ministry of Turkey Foreign Affairs. Therefore, this article is based on the single official documents as a primary resource. Only one primary source is used to gather empirical data which extracted from Turkish Foreign Ministry official website. Turkey has been celebrating the Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks Commemoration Anniversary between 2015 and 2021 with a gap in 2016 in which it was not released for the unknown reason. The span time for this research has chosen according to the available official press release and official letter by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The text content analysis is applied to commemoration statements to find the nature of the language used in the letters to define and underline Turkey approach to the community using the commemorative language. It concluded to verify the correlations between transnationalism, commemoration and diasporaziation process with analysis content of the commemoration letters.

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Making Memorial Publics: Media, Monuments, and the Politics of Commemoration Following Turkey’s July 2016 Coup Attempt

Cited by 17 publications

References 58 publications

Permanences Against Cultural Amnesia: Reconstructing the Urban Narrative of the Rum Community of Fener, Istanbul

Permanences Against Cultural Amnesia: Reconstructing the Urban Narrative of the Rum Community of Fener, Istanbul

‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

Commemoration and Memorialization of Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks in Türkiye Foreign Ministry’s Commemoration Statements-(2015-2021)

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Making Memorial Publics: Media, Monuments, and the Politics of Commemoration Following Turkey’s July 2016 Coup Attempt

Cited by 17 publications

References 58 publications

Permanences Against Cultural Amnesia: Reconstructing the Urban Narrative of the Rum Community of Fener, Istanbul

Permanences Against Cultural Amnesia: Reconstructing the Urban Narrative of the Rum Community of Fener, Istanbul

‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

Commemoration and Memorialization of Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks in T&#252;rkiye Foreign Ministry’s Commemoration Statements-(2015-2021)

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