»Sicher in Kreuzberg«: Constructing Diasporas: Turkish Hip-Hop Youth in Berlin

Ayhan Kaya

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2001

»Sicher in Kreuzberg«

Constructing Diasporas: Turkish Hip-Hop Youth in Berlin

Ayhan Kaya

In the series Kultur und soziale Praxis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839400715

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About this book

This book examines the construction and articulation of diasporic cultural identity among the Turkish working-class youth in Kreuzberg (Little Istanbul), Berlin. This work primarily suggests that the contemporary diasporic consciousness is built on two antithetical axes: particularism and universalism. The presence of this dichotomy derives from the unresolved historical dialogues that the diasporic youths experience between continuity and disruption, essence and positionality, tradition and translation, homogeneity and difference, past and future, 'here' and 'there', 'roots' and 'routes', and local and global.

Author / Editor information

Ayhan Kaya (MA, MSc, PhD.), Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; specialised on the Berlin-Turkish youth cultures and the construction and articulation of modern diasporic identities; received his PhD and MSc degrees at the University of Warwick; his book on Berlin-Turkish youth is in print; has various articles on Berlin-Turkish youth cultures, ethnic-based political participation strategies of German-Turks, Berlin-Alevis, and historians' debate in Germany; currently working on Circassian diaspora in Turkey, globalisation, diaspora nationalism, German-Turks, and multicultural clientalism in the west.

Reviews

Besprochen in:

Critical Sociology, 28/3 (2002), Gokce Yurdakul
Forum Qualitative Social Research, 4/1 (2003), Wolff Michael Roth

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	11
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	13
Chapter 1. The Notions of Culture, Youth Culture, Ethnicity, and Globalisation Open Access Download PDF	31
Chapter 2. Constructing Modern Diasporas Open Access Download PDF	55
Chapter 3. Kreuzberg 36: A Diasporic Space in Multicultural Berlin Open Access Download PDF	87
Chapter 4. Identity and Homing of Diaspora Open Access Download PDF	127
Chapter 5. Cultural Identity of the Turkish Hip-Hop Youth in Kreuzberg 36 Open Access Download PDF	155
Chapter 6. Aesthetics of Diaspora: Contemporary Minstrels Open Access Download PDF	179
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	209
Appendix
Glossary Open Access Download PDF	215
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	218
Discography Open Access Download PDF	234

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 236
Keywords: Diaspora; Youth Culture; Media; HipHop; Youth; Berlin; Sociology

eBook

Published: September 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783839400715