CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Ova, Ilayda Ece |
|---|---|
| Title | Dersim Audible: Relating To Space Through Music In Diasporic Cultural Production |
| Summary | Current discussions over major conflicts leading to waves of migration points a direction where movement is increasingly made sense of as a norm, rather than a deviance in humans’ lives. In that direction, post-structuralist theories of 20th century offer an understanding where spaces are not comprehended as holding fixed properties, but rather being defined through movements that go through them. Within this comprehension, ‘diasporic’ cultural production presents an explicit articulation of how resettled people relate to places beyond the fixated divisions of spaces as ‘homeland’ versus ‘destination after displacement’. In this thesis, I adhere to Deleuze and Guattari’s works on ‘deterri torialization&# x2019; and ‘nomadicism’ to analyze the example of diaspora artists of Dersim music in Germany, whose narratives of how they moved to Germany and why they make music connect their cultural production to Dersim Alevi oral traditions and ‘nomadic’ movement of Alevi religious leaders. The significance of this work derives from the fact that, first, it is the precedence of conceptualizing Alevism through ‘deterri torialization&# x2019; theory, which offers a novel perspective on discussing the politics of cultural production in Turkey. Deriving from that conceptualization, I examine cultural production as a force essentially contesting the ‘settled’ ways of understanding social relations. The interviews I conducted throughout an ethnographic fieldwork present indications of an alternation between today’s diasporic Dersimi artists and old religious leaders of Alevism, as cultural representatives who contest ‘settled’ social relations whether through religious or non-religious lines of conduct. |
| Supervisor | Prem Kumar Rajaram |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/ova_ilayda-ece.pdf |
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