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      Social housing as paradoxical space: Migrant women’s spatial tactics inside Toki Uzundere Blocks

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      Author(s)
      Gürel, Meltem
      Eranil, M.
      Date
      2022-06-22
      Source Title
      Home Cultures
      Print ISSN
      1740-6315
      Electronic ISSN
      1751-7427
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      19
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      23 - 48
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This study focuses on migrant women’s experiences in TOKI Uzundere, a housing settlement built in Izmir (2009) by the Mass Housing Administration of Turkey (TOKI). It problematizes the incompatibility between the apartments’ standardized layouts and the residents’ spatial practices. The study argues that these interiors have become paradoxical spaces with the potential to be transformed by women struggling to fit them to their daily routines, and social and physical needs, by applying certain spatial tactics. These tactics were charted through in-depth interviews with women, observations inside their apartments, schematic drawings, and photography. Our analysis demonstrates how women’s everyday practices and spatial tactics challenge and reconfigure the assumed uses of the interiors in these social housing units.
      Keywords
      TOKI
      Domestic interiors
      Spatial tactics
      Paradoxical space
      migrant women
      Everyday practices
      Turkey
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111667
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2022.2085986
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