The Concept of "Islandness"

'Adalık', adanın mutlak ıssızlığı ile fiziki, toplumsal ve sosyal olanı kendi içinde eritecek bütünlükte tanımlayan bir düşünme aracı / kavramsallaştırması olarak bu tezin merkezinde yer almaktadır. Kavramın kapsadığı alan ile mekânsal olanın sınırlarının birebir örtüşmesi, konu edinilen meselenin özgünlüğünü oluşturmaktadır. İlk bölümde sözü edilen kavramsallaştırmanın bizatihi kendisi yazınsal bir pratiğe dönüşmüştür. İkinci bölümde ise, İstanbul Adaları'nın tarihsel anlatısına, takımadanın ıssızlığının zedelendiği 18.yy'dan itibaren genel tarih anlatısının konsantre hallerini sunduğu biçimiyle yaklaşılmıştır. Anlatı içinde beliren temalar bu konsantre hallerin ifadeleridir. Takımadanın bir parçası olmasına karşın kendine ait başka türden bir sosyolojik, mekânsal ve duyumsal bütünlüğe sahip Burgazada'da yapılan mülakat ve gözlemler, 'adalık'ın biricik ve aynı zamanda evrensel halini kavramsal, tarihsel ve güncel içeriklerle ortaya koymaktadır. Bir bütün olarak tez, adalık'ı, ada ütopyasını ve en temel yaşam hakkı olan 'ıssızlık hakkı'nı mekânsal bir içerik olarak dillendirmeyi hedeflemiştir. 2001 krizinden itibaren prekaryanın adalara yönelen hareketi, kent hakkı sorunsalı içinde değerlendirilmiştir. Deleuze'ün sunduğu haliyle "yersel bir çekirdek" olan adanın kentle olan güncel ilişkisi dâhilinde tercih edilmesinin, mekânla yeniden ilişkilenmenin, bir kopuş ve yeniden doğuş fikri temelinde kurgulanma çabası olduğu ortaya konmuştur. Yeni türden bir kentliliğin arayışı, mekân temelli bir kimlik inşası olarak insanları adaya taşıyan harekete yakından bakılması ve buradan doğan hak talebinin anlaşılması bu tezin amacını oluşturmaktadır. Ada hakkı, bir ıssızlık talebidir. Anahtar Kelimeler: adalık, ada hakkı, kent hakkı, Burgazada, İstanbul Adaları
"Islandness" lies at the center of this thesis as a thought-provoking concept that addresses the absolute desolation of the island together with the relevant social and physical aspects in a melting pot. Overlapping boundaries of the conceptual scope and the physical space constitutes the uniqueness of the subject matter. The first chapter transforms the conceptualization into a literary practice. The following chapter approaches the historical accounts of Istanbul Islands in the way that they have been presented in their reduced terms in the prevalent historical discourse since the deterioration of desolation of the archipelago in the 18th century. Themes that appear in this narrative are expressions of these reduced terms. Interviews and observations that have been carried out in Burgazada which is despite a part of the archipelago, it is a sociological, spatial and sensuous whole in itself, present the unique but at the same time universal manifestation of "islandness" through conceptual, historical and actual contents. This thesis aims to present the islandness, the utopia of the island and "right to desolation", which is a fundamental individual right, as spatial issues. The precariat's interest in moving to the islands since the 2001 crisis have been assessed as a part of the question of the right to the city. The preference of the island, which Deleuze states as a "terrestrial nucleus", with respect to its actual relationship to the city is addressed as an effort built around primarily a break away and a rebirth in order to reestablish one's own relationship with the space. Right to the island is a demand for desolation. Keywords: islandness, right to the island, Burgazada, İstanbul's (Prince) Islands
"Islandness" lies at the center of this thesis as a thought-provoking concept that addresses the absolute desolation of the island together with the relevant social and physical aspects in a melting pot. Overlapping boundaries of the conceptual scope and the physical space constitutes the uniqueness of the subject matter. The first chapter transforms the conceptualization into a literary practice. The following chapter approaches the historical accounts of Istanbul Islands in the way that they have been presented in their reduced terms in the prevalent historical discourse since the deterioration of desolation of the archipelago in the 18th century. Themes that appear in this narrative are expressions of these reduced terms. Interviews and observations that have been carried out in Burgazada which is despite a part of the archipelago, it is a sociological, spatial and sensuous whole in itself, present the unique but at the same time universal manifestation of "islandness" through conceptual, historical and actual contents. This thesis aims to present the islandness, the utopia of the island and "right to desolation", which is a fundamental individual right, as spatial issues. The precariat's interest in moving to the islands since the 2001 crisis have been assessed as a part of the question of the right to the city. The preference of the island, which Deleuze states as a "terrestrial nucleus", with respect to its actual relationship to the city is addressed as an effort built around primarily a break away and a rebirth in order to reestablish one's own relationship with the space. Right to the island is a demand for desolation. Keywords: islandness, right to the island, Burgazada, İstanbul's (Prince) Islands

This paper aims to outline the role that place branding plays in shaping a new framework for sustainable island tourism. Islandness, as a contemporary context, underlines that islands share a set
of unique features and they need to be studied on their own terms; they combine elements of urban and rural regions at the same time. Place branding is evolving as a crucial element for differentiated
marketing that conditionally can also form an alternative tool to achieve sustainability for island regions. Therefore, policy makers need to examine tourism policies for island regions through the
lenses of Nissology.
It is commonly accepted that globalisation has intensified the competition between countries, cities and regions to attract investment, high quality human capital, various potential audiences
and visitors. Several factors play a significant role in shaping the context in which places developnowadays: climate change, new technologies, tourism pressures are just a few to highlight from the
public discussion and academic debates. A growing number of researchers argue that place branding could be the strategic planning procedure needed, able to achieve multifaceted sustainability of an
island destination. One very important issue raised often by both academics and practitioners is the role of stakeholders and local governance in such strategic processes like sustainable tourism
development of a destination.
The literature review, in this paper, explores why islandness and place branding have become significant for islands’ sustainable tourism development. Therefore, building on existing crossdiscipline
theoretical foundations, the present paper aims to (a) highlight the link between islandness and contemporary place branding, (b) emphasise the need to establish the term ‘island branding’, and (c) suggest a potential framework deriving from this linkage as a proper solution for contributing to the next era of sustainable tourism development for island regions.

Author’s interpretation of the phenomenon of otočki rock rests upon the attempt to read the islandness constructed by music and music constructed by islandness through the texts of otočki rock – its music, its lyrics and multiple levels of its verbalization in extramusical texts that it is encircled by. If we can talk about islandness as a cultural fact and individual experience, can it be, and how, (re)constructed in music? How does, then, this “message” sent from the perspective of the “island” musicians grasp the receptors of its coastal and continental – non-island – listeners and interpreters? Can their islandness itself, and through which mechanisms, serve as a guarantee to the otočki rock musicians to rise up above the sea of non-islandness of the rest of the domestic popular music scene? On the existence of which imagination precisely does this category count on and which Island does it create and invoke through its promotional discourses? And finally, is there a non-island part of the otočki rock and how is it poeticized and set to music? – these are some of the starting questions of the interpretation of the otočki rock phenomenon presented in this article.