A tale of two fears: negotiating trust and neighborly relations in urbanizing Turkey

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buir.contributor.authorMa, Jermaine S.
dc.citation.epage334en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.spage322en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber28en_US
dc.contributor.authorMa, Jermaine S.
dc.contributor.authorHoard, P. R.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-17T13:12:20Z
dc.date.available2021-02-17T13:12:20Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractUsing a Turkish empirical case, we show how trust is negotiated among rural-to-urban migrant women as a result of their move from informal housing where they lived clustered with other migrant women, sharing their personal lives (arguably expressing and facilitating high trust), to apartment buildings where it requires life to be shared with a diverse group of residents (rural/urban, religious sectarian, ethnic) and where they are expected to live individualistic lives. Given this socio-spatial transformation, we suggest trusting is understood and experienced by migrant women, as an on-going relational process of negotiating two competing fears to (1) not be alone; and (2) not be harmed by the people they risk/desire to be close to (physically and emotionally). This is significant for migrant women whose conservative values and way of life relies heavily on other women in close proximity to them (i.e. neighbors) for emotional and material support in the rhythm of daily life. This is further complicated by also needing to negotiate competing group identities – part and parcel to neighborly relations in polarized societies like Turkey. The process of trusting, we suggest, entails an on-going relational risk assessment/negotiation through knowing, visiting and sharing over time (in material and emotional ways).en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14782804.2020.1730161en_US
dc.identifier.issn1478-2804
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/75412
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2020.1730161en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Contemporary European Studiesen_US
dc.subjectInterpersonal trusten_US
dc.subjectNeighborly relationsen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectSocio-spatial transformationen_US
dc.subjectGender and spaceen_US
dc.titleA tale of two fears: negotiating trust and neighborly relations in urbanizing Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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