ABSTRACT
Population Exchange in the Early Republican Period has triggered spatial transformations and new social footmarks on the built environment of Anatolia as the mobilized groups and their children have experienced dual, afflicted, and unique lives at target venues. The Aegean Region with its historical locations and settlements is a distinctive and representative case for those researchers interested in everyday traces and remains of Exchange. Within the scope of this chapter, on one hand, the dialectical process of legal aspects and its recent impacts on communities are considered. On the other hand, the spatial particularities at Denizli / Honaz, Aydın / Mursallı, and Izmir / Küçükbahçe are exposed to study the historical tangible and intangible remains of everyday life in rural sites. The spatiality of this dramatically forced displacement is the central concentration of this study as well as the recollections of the mobilized groups and their children. Contemplating on those three specific sites, the details of displacement via their silent witnesses, namely spaces, are focused by, investigated with, and referred to in-depth interviews and documentation on mentioned venues. In this text, with the family of the people constructing their novel living in target places, we aim to learn and decode the ways of spatial transformations, modifications, voices, sense of belonging, spatial identity, obliterations, individual memories, collective behavior and unique tactics on the built environment.
