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Item Open Access Dis-placed: space, settlement, and agency(Intellect Ltd., 2021-07-01) Batuman, BülentThis article introduces the special issue ‘Dis-placed’. Questioning the term ‘refugee’ as an identity marker and pointing at the problematic connotations it embodies, the article explores the spatial forms of refugee experience. The knowledge of space, as produced within disciplines such as geography, urban planning, and architecture, is deployed by states to limit the movements of forced migrants across and within national borders. In response, the article calls for social/spatial justice, arguing that this can only be achieved through the blurring of the boundaries between host and refugee identities. The contributions in this special issue present investigations on different facets of the spatiality of forced migration through various disciplinary approaches and methodologies. Taken together, they underline the importance of the link between space and refugee agency in tackling forced migration.Item Open Access "Nedim Gürsel'in ''Bir Avuç Dünya"sıyla dünya cennetlerine yolculuk"(Ürün Yayınları, 2004) İnal, TanjuThe travel narratives of Nedim Gürsel, a Turkish writer who spends his life in Paris and Istanbul transports us to different cities of the world mostly known as "terrestrial paradises" or "lost paradises". Although Gürsel is preoccupied with a burning desire to flee to other spaces, from his writing about travel emerges a strong feeling of solitude and strangeness that makes hirn experience the woes of escaping frorn his condition. Nevertheless a furtive glance over the city and its nonurgent fumishes him with the key to an emotional metamorphosis that does not cease to awaken in him various reminiscences and literary memories linked to authors who had written about these cities. Thus the various geographical journeys of Nedim Gürsel come off as a literary exploration and an intellectual voyage through thought rather than by a displacement in space.