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Cultivating and contesting order: 'European Turks' and negotiations of neighbourliness at 'home'

Title	Cultivating and contesting order: 'European Turks' and negotiations of neighbourliness at 'home'
Author	Rottmann, Susan Beth
Publication Date:	2013-12
Publication Place	- Berghahn
Subject	Ethics, Europe, Migration, Modernity, Neighbourliness, Order, Turkey
Type	Periodical
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID	1746-0719
Record ID	7eb9ba09-0edc-48fd-8bdb-24e7ffbc6852
Library Location	Humanities and Social Sciences
Date	2013-12
Sample Text	This article examines how Turks returning from Germany to Turkey self-fashion as 'orderly neighbours'. By maintaining aesthetically pleasing homes and gardens, keeping public spaces clean, and obeying rules and laws in public, return migrants believe they act as modern 'European-Turks' and exemplify good neighbourliness. Many neighbours, however, feel these actions are unnecessary or even disruptive to Turkish communities. In conversation with the burgeoning anthropology of ethics, this research explores how local, national and transnational assemblages foster reflections and debates on neighbourly ethics. Further, this study highlights anxieties about individualism, reciprocity, 'modernity' and 'European-ness' in today's Turkey.
DOI	10.3167/ame.2013.080202
Cilt	8

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Cultivating and contesting order: 'European Turks' and negotiations of neighbourliness at 'home'

Author Rottmann, Susan Beth

Publication Date 2013-12

Publication Place - Berghahn

Subject Ethics, Europe, Migration, Modernity, Neighbourliness, Order, Turkey

Type Periodical

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Özyeğin University

Library Asset ID 1746-0719

Record ID 7eb9ba09-0edc-48fd-8bdb-24e7ffbc6852

Library Location Humanities and Social Sciences

Date 2013-12

Sample Text This article examines how Turks returning from Germany to Turkey self-fashion as 'orderly neighbours'. By maintaining aesthetically pleasing homes and gardens, keeping public spaces clean, and obeying rules and laws in public, return migrants believe they act as modern 'European-Turks' and exemplify good neighbourliness. Many neighbours, however, feel these actions are unnecessary or even disruptive to Turkish communities. In conversation with the burgeoning anthropology of ethics, this research explores how local, national and transnational assemblages foster reflections and debates on neighbourly ethics. Further, this study highlights anxieties about individualism, reciprocity, 'modernity' and 'European-ness' in today's Turkey.

DOI 10.3167/ame.2013.080202

Cilt 8