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Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı

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Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı

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This article examines Kadıköyü’nün Romanı by Safiye Erol as a literary articulation of urban becoming, where space, subjectivity, and affect are co-produced through embodied practices, emotional atmospheres, and mobile encounters. Rather than treating the novel as a nostalgic representation of early Republican Istanbul or a romantic narrative of youth, the analysis foregrounds it as a site of spatial composition and affective cartography. Drawing on affect theory (Ben Anderson, Sara Ahmed), Deleuzian assemblage thinking, and mobility studies (Tim Ingold, Nigel Thrift), the article explores how Kadıköy is rendered not as a stable backdrop but as a living, shifting urban assemblage. The novel’s modes of movement—walking, driving, and rowing—are treated as affective spatial practices that modulate attention, relationality, and emotional intensity. The affective register of the novel transforms over time, moving from collective exuberance to spatialized sorrow, particularly through the emergence of ıztırap, a persistent suffering that saturates both characters and the places they inhabit. By reading Kadıköyü’nün Romanı as a textured geography of emotion, memory, and motion, the article argues for a conception of urban modernity that exceeds infrastructural or ideological paradigms. Kadıköy becomes a porous district, assembled through rhythms, atmospheres, and attachments—felt, remembered, and eventually departed from. Through this reading, the novel is situated within a broader discourse of affective urbanism and literary spatial thought, demonstrating how fiction may serve as a mode of spatial thinking and emotional mapping in periods of urban transformation.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Destekleyen Kurum

Boğaziçi University

Proje Numarası

24B10SUP2

Teşekkür

This article was written as part of the BAP (Scientific Research Projects) project titled "Mapping the City in Fiction: A Literary Atlas of Istanbul in Turkish Novels Published Between 1923 and 1950", supported by Boğaziçi University under project code 24B10SUP2.

Kaynakça

  1. Agopian, Sarine. “Urban Modernization of Late Ottoman Kadıköy and the Memoirs of Hovhannes Kalfa Stepanian.” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 5 (2023): 23–46. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2023.3. Ahmed, Sara. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. 2nd ed. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Anderson, Ben. “Affective Atmospheres.” Emotion, Space and Society 2, no. 2 (2009): 77–81. Ay, Taner. Edebiyatın Kadıköyü. Ötüken Neşriyat, 2023. Balık, Macit. “Edebiyat ve Mekân Bağlamında Safiye Erol’un Ülker Fırtınası Romanı Üzerine Bir İnceleme.” International Journal of Cultural and Social Studies 2, no. 2 (2016): 119–28. Buğdaycı, Çiğdem. “Bir Aşk Üçgeni: Safiye Erol’un Kadıköyü’nün Romanı’nda Aşk, Istırap ve Modernleşme.” Yeni Türk Edebiyatı Araştırmaları 7, no. 15 (2016): 100–119. Certeau, Michel de. “Walking in the City.” In The Practice of Everyday Life, translated by Steven Rendall. University of California Press, 1984.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Kültürel çalışmalar (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Aralık 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

22 Mayıs 2025

Kabul Tarihi

10 Aralık 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 7

Kaynak Göster

APA
Altuğ, F. (2025). Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, 7, 103-126. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.1704016
AMA
1.Altuğ F. Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı. YILLIK. 2025;7:103-126. doi:10.53979/yillik.1704016
Chicago
Altuğ, Fatih. 2025. “Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 7 (Aralık): 103-26. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.1704016.
EndNote
Altuğ F (01 Aralık 2025) Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 7 103–126.
IEEE
[1]F. Altuğ, “Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı”, YILLIK, c. 7, ss. 103–126, Ara. 2025, doi: 10.53979/yillik.1704016.
ISNAD
Altuğ, Fatih. “Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 7 (01 Aralık 2025): 103-126. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.1704016.
JAMA
1.Altuğ F. Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı. YILLIK. 2025;7:103–126.
MLA
Altuğ, Fatih. “Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, c. 7, Aralık 2025, ss. 103-26, doi:10.53979/yillik.1704016.
Vancouver
1.Fatih Altuğ. Assembling Kadıköy: Affect, Atmosphere, and Urban Becoming in Safiye Erol’s Kadıköyü’nün Romanı. YILLIK. 01 Aralık 2025;7:103-26. doi:10.53979/yillik.1704016