Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey

Hann, Chris; Bellér‐Hann, Ildikó

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511607813.010

Cited by 15 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The image of 'the Yugoslav' (a male) smuggling porno magazines, tapes and sex items to 'deviant' Bulgarians became -and for elderly Trun people it was still true in the mid nineties -a sort of negative icon associated with the perils of 'capitalism' and free exchange. This reminds the situation depicted by Hann and Beller-Hann's (1998;2000: 82-91) in North-Eastern Turkey: once the border between Turkey (Lazistan) and former Soviet Union (Georgia) had been opened, the petty trade and smuggling of outdated Soviet goods cleared the way to merchandizing sex and to prostitution. So the local society studied by the Hann -which, for me, takes the same structural place as the Bulgarians in our case -perceived transborder trade as deeply immoral and socially disrupting activity.…”

Section: 'Border Society' and Kinship In The 20 Th Century Western Bulgariamentioning

confidence: 58%

Kinship and Transborder Exchange at the Bulgarian-Serbian border in the second half of the 20th century

Valtchinova¹

2006

ejts

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper explores the nature and the varieties of transborder encounters on the Bulgarian-Serbian border during socialism and the first post-socialist decade. It offers some facts, and analyzes processes showing what happens when family and kinship have been politicized and manipulated, both on the level of existing structures and as symbols. A historical sketch and an overview of the local structures of kinship provide avenues for understanding the importance of the uses of kinship in a border society and the discourse of 'being the same kin' with people on the other side of the border. The ritual and effective uses of kinship in the peculiar conditions of State socialism are analyzed in the second part of the paper. The third and most lengthy part is dedicated to the post-socialist transformations in the visions of kinship and to some patterns of the use of kin in the context of 'liberal market' economy. I hope having shown that the visions of how to 'use' of family ties -and whether to use them, or notcould considerably change over time, especially when there was an ideological and political pressure to do this. Thus in late socialist period, the ideology and images of kinship were used by the communist State in order to counter practices like black market or border petty trade that could not be dissolved in the ideological dogmas. The moralization and politicization of kinship promoted under socialism, but also in the pre-communist period, had an impact on the development of transborder trade in recent years: in lieu of the expected 'ethnic' networks based on a working kin system, the booming transborder trade and smuggling led to the constitution of transethnic networks between ethnic Bulgarians and local Roma. The latter assumed the tasks that both the discourses of kinship and the socialist value system tended to blame as shameful. The recent developments under review call for a more careful consideration of what kind of 'family', for what kind of 'networks', are used during a post-socialist transition.

show abstract

Section: 'Border Society' and Kinship In The 20 Th Century Western Bulgariamentioning

confidence: 58%

Kinship and Transborder Exchange at the Bulgarian-Serbian border in the second half of the 20th century

Valtchinova¹

2006

ejts

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…6 The ideals of the growing Turkish Islamist movement-defined by political and revivalist sentiments, including gendered codes of modesty-have particularly contrasted with visible markers of women's sexuality expressed by many secular urbanites in Turkey, including INTRODUCTION Russian-speaking migrant women like Zhenia (Öncü 1999;White 1999). 7 Post-Soviet women have become the lightning rods for fraught discussions around gendered codes of modesty and expressions of women's sexuality (Hann and Béller-Hann 1998;Hacaog ˘lu 2002;Uygun 2004). The very ability to engage in transnational border crossing marks postsocialist women in Turkey as transgressive, something that contributes to their symbolic capital as embodying "modern" forms of intimacy (Giddens 1992;Parla 2009).…”

Section: Transnational Circuits Between the Fsu And Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although people did travel extensively within the Soviet Union and some within the "socialist camp" of East European countries, the average person had never dreamt that it would become common to cross into Turkey or travel to Western Europe. My consultants fondly recalled their first journeys out of the former Soviet Union when they traveled to nearby Poland, Romania, or Hungary transporting household items, socialist-era lapel pins, or "cognac" ( koniak ) intended for resale (Hann and Béller-Hann 1998;Hohnen 2003). 6 One woman, a former employee in an electronics factory, who began trading in 1993, described her sense of amazement when she first traveled to Warsaw by bus; the second time she took her daughter for four days, and they spent half the time exploring the city, eating Chinese food, marveling at the wellkept, beautiful churches, and visiting museums.…”

Section: Gender Labor and Emotion In A Global Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sex, Love, and Migration

Bloch¹

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Modified Library of Congress system is used in transliterating Russian from the Cyrillic. Russian, Turkish, or Moldovan place names and spellings are retained, except when there is a commonly used English version. For instance, Bosphorus, not Bog ˘aziçi, Moscow, not Moskva, and Gagauzia, not Gagauziia, are used in the text. Another challenge is posed by places that have more than one place name widely used in the present. For Chis ¸ina ˘u or Vulca ˘nes ¸ti, in Moldovan, Kishinev and Vulkaneshty, respectively, in Russian, I have retained the word used by the speaker or source.All personal names used in the text are pseudonyms, unless a person was acting in an official capacity. I have made an effort to use pseudonyms that were not uncommon names among women migrants I came to know from the former Soviet Union. For names in Russian I have followed the Modified Library of Congress system, except in the case of two names, where for the ease of the Anglophone reader I have used the more common English versions: Olga (instead of Ol′ga) and Maria (instead of Mariia). The spelling of authors' names appears, for the most part, as in the original sources.When terms in Russian, Turkish, or Gagauz occur in the text, they are defined with the first usage. All translations from Russian to English or Turkish to English are my own unless otherwise indicated.For those readers unfamiliar with Turkish or Moldovan spellings and pronunciation, a few guidelines may be of use. The a ˘ appearing in Moldovan words is pronounced as "a" in a nnunciate. The c, ç, g ˘, ı, ö, s ¸, ü found in Turkish words (and the ç and s ¸ in Moldovan words) are pronounced as follows:C, c as "j" in j am Ç, ç as "ch" in ch uckle G ˘, g ˘ is usually silent, lengthens the preceding vowel I, ı a hard "i" as in fl ir t Ö, ö as in French eu , as in deux S ¸, s ¸ as "sh" in sh out Ü, ü as "u" in n ew Unless otherwise indicated, monetary values are in US dollars.

show abstract

“…On the one hand, the Iron Curtain between Turkey and the former Soviet Union has fallen, and the Turkish-Georgian border and border region have been fundamentally transformed (Hann & Belle´r-Hann 1998;Pelkmans 2006). On the other hand, further to the south, the Turkish-Armenian border is still officially closed due to the post-Karabakh war diplomacy, whereby Turkey supports Azerbaijan's claims for the return of occupied territories.…”

Section: Transcending Nationalism In the Turkish-georgian-armenian Bomentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-thinking Citizenship in the South Caucasus

Yalçın-Heckmann

2012

Europe-Asia Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey

Cited by 15 publications

References 0 publications

Kinship and Transborder Exchange at the Bulgarian-Serbian border in the second half of the 20th century

Kinship and Transborder Exchange at the Bulgarian-Serbian border in the second half of the 20th century

Sex, Love, and Migration

Re-thinking Citizenship in the South Caucasus

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About