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“crisis? Which Crisis?“ Society in a State of Emergency :faces of a Crisis in Istanbul
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Helmert, Julia; Kartarı, Asker; Kartarı, Asker
This thesis is the analyses of an explorative field study on the socio-cultural perception of crises in istanbul realized from 2016 to 2017. The aim of this study is to examine how people with different (cultural) backgrounds that live in the same city deal with crises and upheavals and which coping mechanisms they develop. The main method to achieve this goal are qualitative episodic interviews. Due to the difficulty of framing and defining crises this study is using a working definition of the term. in this sense a crisis is an unexpected event where the lack of security and hopelessness multiplicate to a state of fear and paralysis. The main findings of this research are that the perception of a crisis depends on the experience and the personal state of being of a person. Furthermore it is partly related to the social and cultural background of this person. A Social Crisis can become a Personal Crisis for example when a person does not feel in charge of his or her own life. This can for instance be the case when someone has to flee from a war-prone country and gets labeled as a „refugee“. The main coping mechanisms are feeling in power of one's own life and knowing of the privilege to leave to a safe place at anytime. Furthermore the absence of feeling free and secure can lead to resignation on one hand and to superseding acting like nothing happened on the other hand. Another coping mechanism on a communitarian level are (social) art projects.