Exclusions of Conviviality: Negotiation of Space, Ideology, Class, Gender and Lifestyle Differences

In this chapter, I explore the sharing of space, spatial negotiations, inclusions and exclusions that are drawn by space, class, ideology, gender, tastes and differences in lifestyles. I begin by exploring the islanders’ memories, the social use of space and the social division of labour (Lefèbvre, The Production of Space. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Vol. 142. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), and the ways in which class difference is experienced on/in people’s bodies. Inspired by Öz and Eder (“Problem Spaces” and Struggles Over the Right to the City: Challenges of Living Differentially in a Gentrifying Istanbul Neighborhood. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research 42 (6): 1030–1047. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12656 , 2018), I question whose norms, ideologies, values and hegemonic claims mark spatial exclusions and inclusions. Building on Doreen Massey’s (For Space. London: SAGE. Non-fiction, 2005) “throwntogetherness,” I dig into the ways in which the islanders use public and open spaces, and contest and negotiate spatial boundaries of closed places.