Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City

211 Pages·2018·4.28 MB·English

by  Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce and E. Fuat Keyman (eds.)

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Istanbul
o
Living with Diference
in a Global City
E d i t e d b y
No r a F i s h e r - O na r
S u s a n C . P e a r c e
E . Fuat K e y m a n
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Names: Fisher, Nora, 1976– editor. | Pearce, Susan C., editor. | Keyman, Emin Fuat, editor.
Title: Istanbul : living with diference in a global city / edited by Nora Fisher-Onar,
Susan C. Pearce, and E. Fuat Keyman.
Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2018. | Series: New directions in
international studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifers: LCCN 2017016374 (print) | LCCN 2017021034 (ebook) | ISBN 9780813589114
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Subjects: LCSH: Cosmopolitanism—Turkey—Istanbul. | Istanbul (Turkey)—History. |
Istanbul (Turkey)—Social conditions. | Cultural pluralism—Turkey—Istanbul.
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Contents
foreword Istanbul: A Space of Untranslatability, a City
Always Arising from Its Ashes Like a Phoenix xi
E. Fuat Keyman
Historical Timeline xv
introduction Between Neo-O ttomanism and
Neoliberalism: T he Politics of Imagining Istanbul 1
Nora Fisher- Onar
P A R T I
Te Past of Istanbul’s Present
1 Imperial, National, and Global Istanbul: Tree Istanbul
“Moments” from the Nineteenth to Twenty-F irst
Centuries 25
Çağlar Keyder
2 Promiscuous Places: Cosmopolitan Milieus between
Empire and Nation 38
Sami Zubaida
3 Te Past Is a Diferent City: Istanbul, Memoirs,
and Multiculturalism 53
Feyzi Baban
4 Cosmopolitanism, Violence, and the State in Istanbul
and Odessa 66
Charles King
ix
x Contents
P A R T I I
Paradise Lost:
Contested Memories of Cosmopolis
5 Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia: Geographies, Histories,
and Memories of the Rum Polites 81
İlay Romain Örs
6 Cosmopolitanism as Situated Knowledge:
Reading Istanbul with David Harvey 97
Amy Mills
7 Hagia Sophia’s Tears and Smiles: Te Ambivalent Life
of a Global Monument 112
Anna Bigelow
P A R T I I I
Actually Existing Conviviality:
Sharing Space in a Globalizing City
8 Living Together in Ambivalence in a Migrant
Neighborhood of Istanbul 131
Kristen Sarah Biehl
9 Contesting the “Tird Bridge” in Istanbul: Local
Environmentalism, Cosmopolitan Attachments? 145
Hande Paker
10 Performing Pride in a Summer of Dissent:
Istanbul’s LGBT Parades 160
Susan C. Pearce
Acknowledgments 177
Recommended Further Reading 179
Web Resources 181
Notes on Contributors 183
Index 187