Memory, identity, home : self-perception of identity among the Armenian and Jewish communites in Ankara

Date

2006

Author

Bal, Özgür

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This thesis explores the identity perceptions of the Armenian and Jewish communities in the context of Ankara. Purpose of the study is to understand the ways the members of these communities experienced the social, spatial, political and cultural changes in the capital-city after the establishment of Turkish nation-state; and in what ways they draw on these experiences in terms of their identifications, self-understanding, and feelings of belonging. For this purpose, life-story narratives of people who were born in the early Republican era and of the following generation were collected through oral history methodology. As a result of the analyses of these narratives, multiple, fluid, contextual, and contingent character of identity in terms of the Armenian and Jewish communities in Ankara is pointed, and it is concluded that community identity for the members of these communities was symbolically constructed.

Subject Keywords

Social groups., Mutuality., Social Groups.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607281/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16427

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Theses