This article examines the loss of home due to displacement after the urban clashes in Nusaybin in 2015â2016, homemaking practices as coping strategies, and the meanings of home and homelessness. The article questions the multiple meanings attached to experiences of loss of home and homemaking, restricted to the neighbourhood level for this articleâs purposes. Based on the narratives of those rendered homeless, it argues that the destruction of Nusaybin was the destruction of a home in both its public and private senses. The analytical distinction between private and public homes allows one to make sense of the multi-layered practices and meanings of homelessness and homemaking by following the mutual relationality between the public and the private. The article argues that places where public and private intersect, such as gardens and têndurs, are productive spaces for homemaking and for the flourishing of agency.
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This article examines the loss of home due to displacement after the urban clashes in Nusaybin in 2015â2016, homemaking practices as coping strategies, and the meanings of home and homelessness. The article questions the multiple meanings attached to experiences of loss of home and homemaking, restricted to the neighbourhood level for this articleâs purposes. Based on the narratives of those rendered homeless, it argues that the destruction of Nusaybin was the destruction of a home in both its public and private senses. The analytical distinction between private and public homes allows one to make sense of the multi-layered practices and meanings of homelessness and homemaking by following the mutual relationality between the public and the private. The article argues that places where public and private intersect, such as gardens and têndurs, are productive spaces for homemaking and for the flourishing of agency.
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