Coğrafya Tahayyülleri: Ulusal Kimlik, Anlatı ve Sınır

Öz

Bu çalışma, birbiriyle bağlantılı üç araştırma alanı olan ulusal kimlik, anlatı ve sınır arasındaki ilişkileri incelemektedir. Bu üç kavram coğrafyanın üretimi ve yeniden inşası için elzemdir. Bu çalışma bu üç kavramı tanıtıp, bunlar arasındaki bağlantıları ortaya çıkarmakta ve bu şekilde ulusal kimliklerin sınır ve anlatı kavramları ile ilişkili bir şekilde anlaşılması ve çalışılması için kavramsal bir çerçeve çizmektedir. Ayrıca ulusal kimliklerin tarihsel olarak modern yapılar olduğu, anlatılar ile oluşturulduğu, içselleştirildiği, çoklu ve sürekli değişim halinde olduğu ileri sürülmektedir. Bu nedenle anlatı ve söylem kavramları bu kimliklerin üretimi ve yeniden inşası için gereklidir. Bu makale, aynı zamanda ulusal kimliklerin doğrudan sınır kurumu ile ilgili olduklarını savunmaktadır. Sınır kurumu kavramından kastedilen bir coğrafya üzerine çizilmiş fiziksel bir çizgi veya bir tel örgü değil, sosyal ve mekânsal benzerlik ve farklılaşmaların oluştuğu bir süreçtir. Bu kimliklere anlam veren işte bu sınır kurumu sürecidir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Ulusal Kimlik,Anlatı,Sınır,Coğrafya

Imagining Geography: National Identity, Narrative and Bordering

Abstract

This paper explores the relationships between three interconnected research domains: national identity, narrative and border. These three concepts are crucial to produce and re-produce geography. This paper introduces these three concepts and explores how they are connected to each other, in order to draw a conceptual framework to understand and study national identities in relation to borders and narratives. The paper argues that national identities are historically modern constructs produced through narratives, internalised, multiple and subject to change. Narratives and discourses are significant to produce and reproduce these identities. Thus, narratives and identities are interdependent. This paper also argues that national identities are directly related to borders. By border concept, this paper does not only refer to a physical line or fences on space, but bordering as a process through which social and spatial homogenisations and differentiations occur. It is this bordering process that gives significance to identities.   

Keywords

• National Idenitity,Narrative,Bordering,Geography

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