Les tribulations du terme gecekondu (1947-2004) : une lente perte de substance. Pour une clarification terminologique.

This paper starts with a basic statement: the term of gecekondu, emerged in 1947 and since continuously transformed, could not yet be seriously used without many precautions. The lack of a systematic analysis of its semantic variations is now making this word totally irrelevant for social research....

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Main Author: Jean-François Pérouse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2015-03-01
Series:European Journal of Turkish Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/117
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description This paper starts with a basic statement: the term of gecekondu, emerged in 1947 and since continuously transformed, could not yet be seriously used without many precautions. The lack of a systematic analysis of its semantic variations is now making this word totally irrelevant for social research. In this respect, we try to draw the history of the term and, in the same time, to point out the various definitions that have to be distinguished. To sum up, we can distinguish four definitions: first, the juridical (related to the ownership of the land), secondly, the architectural, thirdly the metaphorical (here gecekondu means illegality of building) and the social one. The actual confusion of these various dimensions has to be solved for going on better with gecekondu studies.
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Les tribulations du terme gecekondu (1947-2004) : une lente perte de substance. Pour une clarification terminologique.
European Journal of Turkish Studies
gecekondu
habitat
urbanisation
varoş
title Les tribulations du terme gecekondu (1947-2004) : une lente perte de substance. Pour une clarification terminologique.
title_full Les tribulations du terme gecekondu (1947-2004) : une lente perte de substance. Pour une clarification terminologique.
title_fullStr Les tribulations du terme gecekondu (1947-2004) : une lente perte de substance. Pour une clarification terminologique.
title_full_unstemmed Les tribulations du terme gecekondu (1947-2004) : une lente perte de substance. Pour une clarification terminologique.
title_short Les tribulations du terme gecekondu (1947-2004) : une lente perte de substance. Pour une clarification terminologique.
title_sort les tribulations du terme gecekondu 1947 2004 une lente perte de substance pour une clarification terminologique
topic gecekondu
habitat
urbanisation
varoş
url https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/117
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