Home or Homelike? Turkish Queers Manage Space in Berlin

In the past 10 years, queer Türkiyelis in Germany have become more visible in the urban queer scene by delineating institutional and extrainstitutional spaces. How do they manage and negotiate these spaces with each other and in the context of interacting with people from different—that is, non-Turk...

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Published inSpace and culture Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 20 - 32
Main Author Petzen, Jennifer
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2004
Subjects
Activism
Berlin
Cultural Pluralism
Ethnic Identity
Ethnicity
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany
Homosexuality
Identity
Lesbianism
Middle Eastern Cultural Groups
Political activity
Public Space
Public sphere
Sexuality
Space
Turks
Urban space
homosexuality
ethnic identity
political activity
Germany
Turks
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Summary:In the past 10 years, queer Türkiyelis in Germany have become more visible in the urban queer scene by delineating institutional and extrainstitutional spaces. How do they manage and negotiate these spaces with each other and in the context of interacting with people from different—that is, non-Turkish—backgrounds? And do the ways in which these spaces are managed have the capacity to work against prejudices both in the German queer community and among the wider Türkiyeli population? Queer Türkiyelis employ strategies of space management that resist fixed ideas of identities and bounded cultures that multiculturalist discourses and the media might otherwise enforce. In place of fixed identity politics based on ethnicity and national belonging, there are, instead, spatial management strategies at work that create homelike spaces.
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ISSN:1206-3312
1552-8308
DOI:10.1177/1206331203256851