The Ottoman state governed its mobile subjects with various policies. While the Ottoman historiography is pretty illuminating on state-pastoralist relations, studies on the other nomads, peripatetics, are still rare. Existing studies are almost exclusively Roma-centred and focused mainly on the empire’s European territories. Moreover, the gap in the literature is more profound regarding nineteenth-century modernisation policies and their effects on the relevant groups. The present article, adopting micro-history and historical anthropology approaches, focuses on non-Roma peripatetic groups, such as Teber s, Doms, Loms, and Tahtacı s inhabiting Ottoman Asia, and investigates how the post-Crimean war administrative endeavours to end tax farming affected those groups. The systematic analysis of archival and ethnographic records reveals that the Ottoman administration had collected cizye from different ethnies registered as Gypsy in Kastamonu, Çankırı-Tosya, Ankara, Malatya, Harput, and Aleppo. They expanded the scope of the Gypsy poll tax after 1858 in Teke and Aydın by incorporating intersectional peripatetics, historically attached with another revenue item and tribal organisation, the Zulkadriyye spin-offs.
Egemen Yılgür
Kişisel Web Sayfası / Personal Web Page
10 Mart 2023 Cuma
2 Mayıs 2022 Pazartesi
Mustafa Mehmet: One of Those Tobacco Workers, in (eds.) Elena Marushiakova, Vesselin Popov, Roma Portraits in History, Brill, 2022.
In this collection’s foreword, Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov indicate the two dimensions of Roma existence as ‘community’, explicitly different ethnic groups from the surrounding population and ‘society’, the integral ethnic elements of the nation-states of which they are citizens (Marushiakova & Popov, 2016e, p. 15; Marushiakova & Popov, 2021b, p. XXIII), relying on an updated non-evolutionary version of the old conceptual duality of Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft (Tönnies, 1887). For the authors, Roma civic eman- cipation refers to the attempts to achieve a congruous balance between both. That is a constant fight, for equal status to Roma ethnic identity and Roma’s obtaining all the relevant citizenship rights. Therefore, emancipation is not assimilation (Marushiakova & Popov, 2021b, p. XXIV). In this respect, one may see Roma’s active participation, as individuals or groups to national politics or struggles for improving economic condi- tions as a clear manifestation of their progress in the emancipation process. The tobacco workers’ story is a perfect example of participation in a nation-wide, or even interna- tional, competition between rival political camps, beyond the immediate necessities of ethnic communities. The contemporary left-wing movements promising equal status for each ethnicity was attractive for them and, as a part of that struggle, the tobacco workers demanded all the available rights for Turkish citizens and better life opportunities.
This portrait is a humble attempt to exhibit Mustafa Mehmet personality, or Mustafa, Mehmet’s son. His life was the primary source of inspiration for Tütüncülerin Tarihi (The History of Tobacco Workers) (Özçelik, 2003), a ground-breaking study, including his memoir, some of his transcribed speeches and a bundle of precious archival documents. The tobacco workers constituted a circle of diverse individuals and families who shared a broadly similar history of migration from Greece, mainly the former Salonica (today Thessaloniki in Greece) province of the Ottoman Empire and served for the early for- mation of unions and leftist politics in early Republican Turkey. Roma were noticeable in the circle, and thus, many outsiders identified the whole community as the Gypsy Tobacco Workers and, more recently, the Roma Tobacco Workers.
3 Kasım 2021 Çarşamba
Turcoman Gypsies in the Balkans: Just a Preferred Identity or More? in Romani History and Culture Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Dr. Veselin Popov / Hristo Kyuchukov, Sofiya Zahova, Ian Duminica
15 Ekim 2021 Cuma
Ropörtaj: Sosyal Bilimlerin Geçirgen Sınırlarında Antropoloji-Suat Kutay Küçükler
22 Nisan 2021 Perşembe
2 Nisan 2021 Cuma
Teneke Mahallesi (Bomonti-Feriköy): Akışlar, Karşılaşmalar ve Dönüşüm, içinde Çağlayan Kovanlıkaya, Derya Fırat, Egemen Yılgür, Şükrü Aslan, Aylin Dikmen; Bomonti Kentsel Dönüşüm ve Mekânın Belleği
Bomonti Kentsel Dönüşüm ve Mekânın Belleği
YAYINLAR / PUBLICATIONS
KİTAPLAR / BOOKS
Tütüncülerin Tarihi 2020. Sosyal Tarih Yayınları. İstanbul.
2016. Ayrıntı Yayınları. İstanbul.
Nişantaşı Teneke Mahallesi: Teneke Mahalle Yoksulluğundan Orta Sınıf Yerleşimine
2012. İletişim Yayınları. İstanbul. 1-25.
MAKALELER / ARTICLES
Balkanlar, Anadolu ve Mezopotamya'da Zanaat Göçebeleri. 2018. KADergi.3(8). 22-29.
Karşılaştırmalı Perspektiften Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Yabancı / Parya Cellatlar
2017. MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 1(15). 92-117.
Kumkapı Hisarında Bir Teneke Mahallesi: 19. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Modern Kent Yoksulluğu
2017. İdealkent. 8(2). 538-576.
Türkiye'de Peripatetik Topluluklar: Jenerik Terimler ve Öz-Etnik Kategorizasyon Biçimleri
2017. Nişantaşı Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 5(1). 1-25.
2016. Modus Operandi. 1(4). 177-210.
Şiddet Üreten Bir Mekanizma Olarak Prekapitalist Tabakalaşma Dinamikleri
Ethnicity, Class, and Politicization: Immigrant Roma Tobacco Workers in Turkey
2015. Romani Studies. 25(2). 167-196.
Son Dönem Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Kent Yoksulluğu: Balmumcu Çiftliği Örneği.
2015. Toplum ve Bilim. 134. 119-155.
Tarihsel Perspektiften Peripatetik ve Avcı Toplayıcı Stratejilerin Geçişkenliği
2015. Üsküdar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 1(1). 213-233.
Tek Parti Döneminde Kıpti Nüfusun İskanı ve Vatandaşlığa Kabulü Üzerine Genel Bir Değerlendirme
2015. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 12. 32-45.
Kuştepe Mahallesi'nde Geç-Peripatetik Gruplar: Katmanlar, Etkileşim ve Bütünleşme
İstanbul Sendikalar Birliği ve Ortaköylü Tütüncüler.
2014. Toplum ve Bilim. 130. 189-213.
Peripatetik Konsepti Çerçevesinde Gallangıç Uşağı Aşireti.
2014. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 9. 91-95.
Türkiye Solunun Unutulmuş Özneleri: Roman Tütün İşçileri
2014. Toplumsal Tarih. 250. 62-75
Etnisite, Sınıf ve Siyasallaşma Bağlamında Roman Tütün İşçileri
SAV Almanak 2012-2013, 279-311
Nişantaşı Teneke Mahallesi: Mekansal Dönüşümün Algısal ve Sosyolojik Arka Planı
2013. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 8. 31-47.
Çingeneliğin Kıtasal Konsept Çerçevesinde Yeniden İnşası: Bir Modern Çağ Mitolojisi
2011. Sekizinci Kıta Edebiyat ve Düşünce. 1(3).
İstanbul Çingeneleri Karşılıksız Bir Aşk Hikayesi