Meramet; Weaving the memory of living water, listening to the commonality of the Bosphorus
It all begins with an idea.
This personal essay traces the memory of living water through the Bosphorus, where belonging, migration, and ecological change intertwine. Moving between personal reflection and ethnographic listening, it explores how the scents, sounds, and rhythms of Bosphorus culture shape an embodied sense of place. Through interviews with elderly fishermen and net-makers, the essay reveals how marine literacy now falters under loss and disappearance. “Meramet,” a humble practice of mending torn fishing nets, becomes a conceptual framework for reweaving collective memory: a gesture of care, repair, and resilience. By listening to stories of loss, hope, and forgotten sense, the essay invites a reconsideration of the Bosphorus as a living archive; one that continues to breathe through its people, its waters, and its vanishing ecologies.
environmental loss, sensory memory, maritime culture, oral history, repair and resilience
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