Göç eden miras ve sosyal içerikli sanatta insanı ve katılımı merkez alma

Since the so-called "Migration Crisis" of 2015, a dominant discourse in heritage studies has been a focus on the lost, destroyed, and at-risk immovable heritage of Syria and Iraq. This dissertation provides an alternative discourse to this narrative of "loss" and centers people and participation in a dialogue between migratory heritage and a recent genre of contemporary art called socially engaged art. The first part of the thesis defines many terms that are used to refer to people and participatory practices in migration-related and culture-based research, e.g.: public, community, migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, participation, collaboration, engagement, outreach, capacity-building, and skills-based. Subsequently, a history of the development of heritage policy which forefronts people and participatory practices is provided. ICOMOS's rights-based and ICCROM's people-centered approaches are the most recent developments in this chronology and are used in this dissertation to establish the connection between cultural diversity, cultural rights, and migratory heritage. Three examples of art and culture-based initiatives in Europe are examined using participatory research and interviews with the initiators and participants: bi'bak, an artists-run space that initiates mobility-related programming in Berlin, Making Waves, a boat-making workshop for newcomers also based in Berlin, and Pages, an Arabic-language book store and café in Amsterdam. Using Sherry Arnstein's Ladder of Citizen Participation each project is evaluated for its participatory processes, degree of agency, power, and the production of community-based migratory heritage. In the conclusion the concept of personal heritages is proposed as an alternative to, or possibly complementary framework for, the discourses and policies which constitute the ethnic, national, and world heritage that are propagated by international organizations like UNESCO. Finally, this dissertation proposes a new approach – "socially engaged heritage" – as a way to respond to the urgent social issue of migration.