Herstory of the Periphery: Approaching Placemaking through Feminist Autoethnography

Authors : Leyla BEKTAŞ ATA, Simten COSAR

Pages : 649-656

Doi:10.26466/opusjsr.1347503

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Publication Date : 2023-09-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This article elaborated on the possibilities of feminist interference to the reading of informal settlements. In so doing, we focused on a squatter settlement insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Limontepe); in a metropolitan municipality insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(İzmir Metropolitan Municipality); in Turkey, and tried to interrogate the institutional, official history, based on city registers, parliamentary decisions and state and municipality archives. We argue that the way peripheral populations and/or marginalized groups are treated in official histories of nation-states leads to partial knowledge of the place. We propose that the knowledge collected, accumulated and exchanged through everyday lives of the inhabitants, past and present might be a viable option to check the official history writing and fill in the blanks therein. The article is an attempt to walk through feminist insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(auto);ethnography to tie the knowledge of the past to today’s placemaking practices. As feminist researchers we consider engaging in the everyday life practices of inhabitants as a way to participate in the dynamic knowledge production processes of the place.
Keywords : etnografi, otoetnografi, mekân kurulumu, gündelik hayat, konumsallık, enformel yerleşimler