Voyages en identités.
Travels in Identities: The Space-Time of Belonging among Bulgarian Turks Living in Turkey Since the creation of the Bulgarian state in 1878, departure for the heart of the Ottoman Empire and, later, Turkey has for the Turcophone populations of Bulgaria represented a horizon of the thinkable an...
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Français |
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2010
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | Travels in Identities: The Space-Time of Belonging among Bulgarian Turks Living in Turkey Since the creation of the Bulgarian state in 1878, departure for the heart of the Ottoman Empire and, later, Turkey has for the Turcophone populations of Bulgaria represented a horizon of the thinkable and sometimes the possible. The result of these successive migrations has been a multitude of different ways of being a Bulgarian-origin Turk in Turkey. These various modes of belonging are here examined as they are constituted through a practice of sites that is also a practice of filiation and time. By examining the roots travel of Bulgarian Turks living in the Turkish megalopolis of Bursa and Istanbul, this article encourages a reconsideration of the sometimes too marked opposition between notions of “departure” and “return”. These do not reflect the variety of meanings attributed to voyages – whether dreamt or accomplished, matters of routine or exceptional events – by those who take part in them. The article next suggests the extent to which ways of reinvesting (or not) ancestral land correlates with social trajectories that mediate the question of filiation through that of affirmations of affiliation with the country of residence. Finally, it shows how origin voyages, which are often considered as windows on the spatiality of identifications, constitute temporal objects, not solely by virtue of their inscription in the length of the voyage and that of the stay but also by the invitation they represent to revisit pasts that have been selectively reread. In so doing, they constitute vectors for reordering the individual, familial and collective temporalities by means of which changing accounts of belonging are elaborated. ■ |
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