Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
LIVENARCH VII, Trabzon, Türkiye, 28 - 30 Eylül 2021, ss.474-485
ABSTRACT
Interactions between people and the technology which develops based on communication and information are progressing. Particularly, in the countries with multinational structures, it becomes significant for people with different ethnic, political and cultural identities to live by sharing the same space. In this respect, the principle of coexistence without destroying the differences depends on preserving the boundaries of the other existing in the common space. In Edward Said’s terms (tr. Ülner, 2006), the concept of the other is defined and examined as a discursive product. According to Derrida, the other expresses not only the differences in opposition to the object but to all differences in opposition to the sameness (Özkan, 2018). Levinas states that the same can exist with a transcendence approaching the other (Direk & Gökyaran, 2002). In this study, the concept of the other will be examined through a spatial example, and the others in the space will be discussed. Jerusalem, which will be regarded as a place, is defined as "the city of all humanity" by S. Karakoç (1988). Jerusalem, which is called Yerushalim by the Jews, alKuds by the Arabs, Jerusalem by the Europeans, and which is exalted in the holy books of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is home to not only these three Abrahamic religions but also many other religions and cultures. The existence of the cultural others and their spatial reflections will be analysed by focusing on the Mount of Olives. The reflections on the space will be discussed by examining the dichotomy between the olive trees that symbolize life / hope in the Mount of Olives and the concepts of death / obstacles that can be regarded as the other of these trees. Besides, Jerusalem is described as "Corpus separatum"1, a phrase which is translated as "separate body" in Latin. The depiction here can now be seen as reflected in the space with walls and limitations (separation of the body). This wall, which is called the separation wall and divides the city into two parts as east and west is the handling of the otherness between life and death with the existence of a physical wall. The existence of a physical wall here causes East Jerusalem to be separated from the West Bank. This distinction draws a boundary between the buildings that indicate the spatial existence of lives and the tombs that indicate the spatial existence of death in the city. In this study, it is aimed to discuss the otherness of these distinctions and borders in the city in relation to each other.
Key Words: Jerusalem; Mount of Olives; The Other; The Other Culture;
Spatial Reflection