Description
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.
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The Implications and the Scope of the Study
Chapter 1. The Notions of Culture, Youth Culture, Ethnicity, and Globalisation
Globalism and Syncreticism
Outsiderism: Ethnic Minority Hip-Hop Youth Culture
Chapter 2. Constructing Modern Diasporas
The Changing Face of Ethnic Group Political Strategies
The Formation of Ethnic-Based Political Strategies
Chapter 3. Kreuzberg 36: A Diasporic Space in Multicultural Berlin
‘Kleines Istanbul’ (Little Istanbul)
Interconnectedness in Space
Major Turkish Ethnic Associations in Berlin
Institutional Multiculturalism in Berlin
Essentialising and ‘Othering the Other’
The Case of Manifest Alevism in ‘Multicultural’ Berlin
Chapter 4. Identity and Homing of Diaspora
Life-worlds of the Working-Class Turkish Youth in Kreuzberg
‘Sicher in Kreuzberg’: The Homing of Diaspora
Middle-Class Turkish Youngsters and the Question of Identity
Middle-Class Turkish Youth: Cosmopolitan Self and ‘Heimat’
Language and ‘Code-Switching’
Chapter 5. Cultural Identity of the Turkish Hip-Hop Youth in Kreuzberg 36
Cultural Sources of Identity Formation Process Among the Turkish Youth
Reception of Diasporic Youth in Turkey: German-Like (Almanci)
Working-Class Turkish Youth Leisure Culture
Hip-Hop Youth Culture and Working-Class Diasporic Turkish Youth
Hip-Hop Youth Style: A Cultural Bricolage
Chapter 6. Aesthetics of Diaspora: Contemporary Minstrels
Rappers as Contemporary Minstrels, ‘Organic Intellectuals’ and Storytellers
Cartel: Cultural Nationalist Rap
Islamic Force: Universalist Political Rap