Browsing by Author "Pasin, Burkay"

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Becoming One with the Neighborhood: Collaborative Art- Space-Making- and Urban Change in Izmir Daragac
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2024) Kivanc Kilinc; Burkay Pasin; Guzden Varinlioglu; Kılınç, Kıvanç; Varinlioğlu, Güzden; Pasin, Burkay
Daragac is a former industrial lower-income neighborhood in Turkey's third-largest city Izmir. In 2015 several artists settled in the area and started a nonprofit initiative called the Daragac Collective (DC). DC has since organized numerous art events and exhibitions receiving considerable interest and publicity. Yet to date the changes in Daragac's material landscapes have been subtle and the area remains ungentrified unlike similar examples in Turkey. This article argues that the collaborative art practice spearheaded by DC played a major role in the preservation of the neighborhood's urban texture. The artists became neighbors with the residents benefited from the expertise of mechanics and drew inspiration from the site while the local community has contributed to the production exhibition and appreciation of artworks. Thus art has become a tool for sociability and a catalyst for interpersonal cultural and cross-class exchanges which could offer an alternative route to art-led urban change in Turkey.
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Revisiting Homosociality and Homosocial Spaces in Pre-Modern Ottoman Society
(UNIV BELGRADE FAC PHILOSOPHY, 2022) Burkay Pasin; Pasin, Burkay
This paper examines diverse conceptions of homosociality in pre-modern and modern societies and discusses how these conceptions are politically socially culturally and spatially constructed and transformed throughout history particularly during the modernization processes of the mid-19th century. Concentrating on two significant homosocial spaces men's coffeehouse and women's section of the Ottoman-Turkish baths it aims to demonstrate how homosociality is spatialized through the dissolution of the public/private dichotomy as well as constructions of functionality in pre-modern Ottoman society. The paper follows a historical interpretative research methodology. Based on data derived from the second-hand sources available in the literature the privatized public complex homoerotic and multi-functional characteristics of these homosocial spaces and their extensions towards and reflections on the Ottoman urban neighborhoods are critically analyzed and interpreted. The dissolution of the public/private dichotomy in these spaces also exemplifies the Foucaultian concept of heterotopia. The paper concludes that these traditional spaces and their modern versions demonstrate the constructedness of both gender categories and patriarchal structures.
THE EAST IN THE WEST: STILL EXISTING VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS IN THE BRITISH ISLES (1)
(MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIV, 2023) Burkay Pasin; Pasin, Burkay