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Papers by Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
Radical housing journal, Dec 7, 2020
A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activi... more A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activists and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the political and theoretical implications of the convergence between urban activism and urban scholarship. The interventions and debate are summarized here in relation to the shifting political context that followed the conference. We argue that the global demand to reframe the relationship between people and institutions should be addressed by reframing the production of knowledge, and we put forward three proposals: that academic departments develop permanent relationships with social movements that struggle against housing and resource dispossession, that research institutions demand that binding social impact assessments are undertaken for each development project, and that activists and scholars develop forms of collaboration on a broader scale to connect different models of grassroots governance into designing a new social contract.
Radical Housing Journal
Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published... more Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published in the last issue of this journal, we present here a reflection on how the recent convergence of housing activism and urban scholarship can contribute to articulate a new form of producing knowledge for action. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated many of the elements that were already stimulating outburst of rebellion throughout the world; the role of activist*scholars may be crucial to connect and convey local episodes into a global view, and way, for change.
Springer eBooks, 2017
The (re)migration of the Almancilar – specifically the gastarbeiter (Turkish workers in Germany) ... more The (re)migration of the Almancilar – specifically the gastarbeiter (Turkish workers in Germany) and their offspring – from Germany to Turkey, and their experiences of a double alienation as expressed in the quote above- partly a self-fulfilling prophecy as a result of self-stereotyping and stereotyping – is one of the phenomena discussed, but also challenged by ethnographic research of migrants’ everyday practice in this chapter. In order to locate the German-Turkish migrants and constructions of identity and space, this chapter deals with migrant homescapes that expand beyond spatial and cultural boundaries.
Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published... more Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published in the last issue of this journal, we present here a reflection on how the recent convergence of housing activism and urban scholarship can contribute to articulate a new form of producing knowledge for action. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated many of the elements that were already stimulating outburst of rebellion throughout the world; the role of activist*scholars may be crucial to connect and convey local episodes into a global view, and way, for change.
Radical Housing Journal
A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activi... more A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activists and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the political and theoretical implications of the convergence between urban activism and urban scholarship. The interventions and debate are summarized here in relation to the shifting political context that followed the conference. We argue that the global demand to reframe the relationship between people and institutions should be addressed by reframing the production of knowledge, and we put forward three proposals: that academic departments develop permanent relationships with social movements that struggle against housing and resource dispossession, that research institutions demand that binding social impact assessments are undertaken for each development project, and that activists and scholars develop forms of collaboration on a broader scale to connect different models of grassroot...
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Innovations in Higher EducationTeaching and Learning, 2014
Innovations in Higher EducationTeaching and Learning, 2014
Radical Housing Journal, 2020
A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activi... more A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activists and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the political and theoretical implications of the convergence between urban activism and urban scholarship. The interventions and debate are summarized here in relation to the shifting political context that followed the conference. We argue that the global demand to reframe the relationship between people and institutions should be addressed by reframing the production of knowledge, and we put forward three proposals: that academic departments develop permanent relationships with social movements that struggle against housing and resource dispossession, that research institutions demand that binding social impact assessments are undertaken for each development project, and that activists and scholars develop forms of collaboration on a broader scale to connect different models of grassroots governance into designing a new social contract.
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough, Ethnographic Responses (Francisco Martinez, Patrick Laviolette), 2019
Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes o... more Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes on the road. But what kind of politics, precisely? The volumes in this series put an emphasis on repair and maintenance as an analytical means for studying how we think about and imagine social relations.
Postwachstumsstadt. Konturen einer solidarischen Stadtpolitik. (Anton Brokoq-Loga Frank Eckardt, Hrsg.), 2020
Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes o... more Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes on the road. But what kind of politics, precisely? The volumes in this series put an emphasis on repair and maintenance as an analytical means for studying how we think about and imagine social relations.
The publication is based on lectures, discussions, and collaboration during the KOSMOS Workshop “... more The publication is based on lectures, discussions, and collaboration during the KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Everyday Life” at Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, September 5-8, 2018.
The publication was supported by the KOSMOS Program, Excellence Initiative of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, organized by the Urban Ethnography Lab, in cooperation with Harvard University, the University of Toronto.
For further information please visit: www.urban-ethnography.com © Urban Ethnography Lab, 2018
Conference Presentations by Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
Urban Research and Action Graduate Conference. Harvard University, Barker Center, Cambridge MA ... more Urban Research and Action Graduate Conference.
Harvard University, Barker Center, Cambridge MA
September 12-14, 2019
The Harvard Gazette, 2019
Paper Publications by Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
In: Heinrich, A-J./ S. Marguine/ A. Million / J. Stollmann (Hrsg.): Methoden der qualitativen Raumforschung. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Bielefeld: transcript., 2021
My best works by Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
Radical Housing Journal, 2021
Which side are universities on? We believe it is time to open a debate about this. Scholarship ca... more Which side are universities on? We believe it is time to open a debate about this. Scholarship can either play into the hands and be appropriated by oppressive forces, or work to develop new emancipatory tools as a means of support to the struggles of the oppressed. Energies and resources, inside the academia, should be devoted to forms of scholarship, action and research whose proponents already made the choice of standing on the side of the evicted, the homeless, the squatters, the favelados, those discriminated against, those who risk to lose or already lost their land, their house, their job, people, or their health: producing what we called activist*scholarship.
Radical housing journal, Dec 7, 2020
A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activi... more A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activists and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the political and theoretical implications of the convergence between urban activism and urban scholarship. The interventions and debate are summarized here in relation to the shifting political context that followed the conference. We argue that the global demand to reframe the relationship between people and institutions should be addressed by reframing the production of knowledge, and we put forward three proposals: that academic departments develop permanent relationships with social movements that struggle against housing and resource dispossession, that research institutions demand that binding social impact assessments are undertaken for each development project, and that activists and scholars develop forms of collaboration on a broader scale to connect different models of grassroots governance into designing a new social contract.
Radical Housing Journal
Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published... more Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published in the last issue of this journal, we present here a reflection on how the recent convergence of housing activism and urban scholarship can contribute to articulate a new form of producing knowledge for action. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated many of the elements that were already stimulating outburst of rebellion throughout the world; the role of activist*scholars may be crucial to connect and convey local episodes into a global view, and way, for change.
Springer eBooks, 2017
The (re)migration of the Almancilar – specifically the gastarbeiter (Turkish workers in Germany) ... more The (re)migration of the Almancilar – specifically the gastarbeiter (Turkish workers in Germany) and their offspring – from Germany to Turkey, and their experiences of a double alienation as expressed in the quote above- partly a self-fulfilling prophecy as a result of self-stereotyping and stereotyping – is one of the phenomena discussed, but also challenged by ethnographic research of migrants’ everyday practice in this chapter. In order to locate the German-Turkish migrants and constructions of identity and space, this chapter deals with migrant homescapes that expand beyond spatial and cultural boundaries.
Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published... more Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published in the last issue of this journal, we present here a reflection on how the recent convergence of housing activism and urban scholarship can contribute to articulate a new form of producing knowledge for action. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated many of the elements that were already stimulating outburst of rebellion throughout the world; the role of activist*scholars may be crucial to connect and convey local episodes into a global view, and way, for change.
Radical Housing Journal
A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activi... more A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activists and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the political and theoretical implications of the convergence between urban activism and urban scholarship. The interventions and debate are summarized here in relation to the shifting political context that followed the conference. We argue that the global demand to reframe the relationship between people and institutions should be addressed by reframing the production of knowledge, and we put forward three proposals: that academic departments develop permanent relationships with social movements that struggle against housing and resource dispossession, that research institutions demand that binding social impact assessments are undertaken for each development project, and that activists and scholars develop forms of collaboration on a broader scale to connect different models of grassroot...
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Innovations in Higher EducationTeaching and Learning, 2014
Innovations in Higher EducationTeaching and Learning, 2014
Radical Housing Journal, 2020
A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activi... more A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activists and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the political and theoretical implications of the convergence between urban activism and urban scholarship. The interventions and debate are summarized here in relation to the shifting political context that followed the conference. We argue that the global demand to reframe the relationship between people and institutions should be addressed by reframing the production of knowledge, and we put forward three proposals: that academic departments develop permanent relationships with social movements that struggle against housing and resource dispossession, that research institutions demand that binding social impact assessments are undertaken for each development project, and that activists and scholars develop forms of collaboration on a broader scale to connect different models of grassroots governance into designing a new social contract.
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough, Ethnographic Responses (Francisco Martinez, Patrick Laviolette), 2019
Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes o... more Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes on the road. But what kind of politics, precisely? The volumes in this series put an emphasis on repair and maintenance as an analytical means for studying how we think about and imagine social relations.
Postwachstumsstadt. Konturen einer solidarischen Stadtpolitik. (Anton Brokoq-Loga Frank Eckardt, Hrsg.), 2020
Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes o... more Politics materialises in buildings lacking maintenance, disrepair infrastructures, and potholes on the road. But what kind of politics, precisely? The volumes in this series put an emphasis on repair and maintenance as an analytical means for studying how we think about and imagine social relations.
The publication is based on lectures, discussions, and collaboration during the KOSMOS Workshop “... more The publication is based on lectures, discussions, and collaboration during the KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Everyday Life” at Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, September 5-8, 2018.
The publication was supported by the KOSMOS Program, Excellence Initiative of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, organized by the Urban Ethnography Lab, in cooperation with Harvard University, the University of Toronto.
For further information please visit: www.urban-ethnography.com © Urban Ethnography Lab, 2018
Urban Research and Action Graduate Conference. Harvard University, Barker Center, Cambridge MA ... more Urban Research and Action Graduate Conference.
Harvard University, Barker Center, Cambridge MA
September 12-14, 2019
The Harvard Gazette, 2019
In: Heinrich, A-J./ S. Marguine/ A. Million / J. Stollmann (Hrsg.): Methoden der qualitativen Raumforschung. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Bielefeld: transcript., 2021
Radical Housing Journal, 2021
Which side are universities on? We believe it is time to open a debate about this. Scholarship ca... more Which side are universities on? We believe it is time to open a debate about this. Scholarship can either play into the hands and be appropriated by oppressive forces, or work to develop new emancipatory tools as a means of support to the struggles of the oppressed. Energies and resources, inside the academia, should be devoted to forms of scholarship, action and research whose proponents already made the choice of standing on the side of the evicted, the homeless, the squatters, the favelados, those discriminated against, those who risk to lose or already lost their land, their house, their job, people, or their health: producing what we called activist*scholarship.