Transnational Spaces between Dersim and Vienna
Transnational Spaces between Dersim and Vienna

Author(s): Maria Six-Hohenbalken
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Recent History (1900 till today), Islam studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; Dersim; Tunceli; Vienna; Alevi; migration; 20th century;
Summary/Abstract: In this contribution, I will address a few of the multiple layers of interconnectedness between environmental issues, village reconstruction, and memory processes settled in the transnational community of people from the province of Dersim/Tunceli. In the last decade, community development projects as realized by the succeeding generation have been part of a common environmental consciousness and reflect how they deal with the fate of their ancestors, untold family histories, and the orally transmitted knowledge of persecution their parents and grandparents had to experience in the eve of WWII. Their way of dealing with the past in relation to or through environmental issues shapes a very specific space. Strasser and Akçınar (2014) elaborated on the level of community building processes in the Dersim transnation as well as the political context in Turkey and showed the multiplexity of remittances and the meaning of 'political remittances' in the Dersim case.

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