Hafıza Mekânı Olarak Mahalle: Rafadan Tayfa Örneği
The Neighborhood as a Memory Space: The Example of Rafadan Crew

Summary/Abstract: The issue of collective memory refers to the practices of societies to forget and remember together. Our memory has a temporal as well as spatial implication. Because space is an indispensable element in building social memory and acts as the main actor in our experience and meaning of time. In this context, the importance of memory spaces increases in societies whose history has gone through war or genocide and whose memory has been eroded by speed and technology. On the other hand, social memory exists with certain means and tends to be erased by these means. Mass media is one of the most important tools in building social memory. As a matter of fact, mass media have the potential to be determinative in what they want to be reminded, as they can cause a social amnesia by choosing what they want to be forgotten. Television is one of the oldest and most widely used mass media. Cartoons, on the other hand, have become an important element of my mass communication with the inclusion of channels that only broadcast cartoons in the broadcasting life. On the other hand, cartoons serve as an agent in the transfer of social memory to new generations. Rafadan Tayfa, which is broadcast on TRT Children's channel, is a cartoon series that is watched by children and is popular with families because it is suitable for traditional codes. The cartoon deals with the traditional neighborhood in the 1980s through a network of spaces and relations. In fact, when the whole series is examined as a whole, the effort to transfer a memory issue that started as "in our childhood" to digital media draws attention. In this study, it is aimed to deal with the neighborhood as a memory place by analyzing the content of the cartoon named Rafadan Tayfa.

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