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\"Beneath its inimitable skyline Istanbul is a teeming, triumphant metropolis with imperial history, intrigue and entrepreneurial zeal written into its streets. It's a city constantly being remade and reimagined, and the resulting sense of opportunity and vigour is palpable. We've sought out must-sees with an eye beyond the obvious, whether it's visiting the next up-and-coming neighbourhood--brimming with bars, discerning clothiers and coffee houses--or dropping in to an old-school kuafor for a haircut. This guide will point you in the right direction for the finest places to eat, drink and shop, and navigate you through the city's architectural gems, from Ottoman follies converted into art centres to backstreet Byzantine beauties\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Portraits of Empires
In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made
their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the
German House, in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn,
subjects of the emperor found food, wine, shelter, and good
company-and left an incredible collection of albums filled with
images, messages, decorated papers, and more.
Portraits of Empires offers a complete account of this
early form of social media, which had a profound impact on later
European iconography. Revealing a vibrant transimperial culture as
viewed from all walks of life-Muslim and Christian, noble and
servant, scholar and stable boy-the pocket-sized albums containing
these curiosities have never been fully connected to the abundant
archival records on the German House and its residents. Robyn Dora
Radway not only introduces these objects, the people who filled
their pages, and the house at the center of their creation, but she
also presents several arguments regarding chronologies of exchange,
workshop practices, the curation of social networks and visual
collections based on status, and the purposes of these highly
individualized material portraits.
Featuring 162 fascinating color images, Portraits of
Empires reconstructs the world of Habsburg subjects living in
Ottoman Constantinople using a rich and distinctive set of objects
to raise questions about imperial belonging and the artistic
practices used to articulate it.
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Police, provocation, politics : counterinsurgency in Istanbul
In Police, Provocation, Politics, Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethnosectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Shedding light on counterinsurgency's affect-and-emotion-generating divisive techniques and urban dimensions, Yonucu shows how counterinsurgent policing strategies work to intervene in the organization of political dissent in a way that both counters existing alignments among dissident populations and prevents emergent ones.
Yonucu suggests that in the places where racialized and dissident populations live, provocations of counterviolence and conflict by state security agents as well as their containment of both cannot be considered disruptions of social order. Instead, they can only be conceptualized as forms of governance and policing designed to manage actual or potential rebellious populations.
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Istanbul : living with difference in a global city
Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a proud nation-state even as it has become a global city of multinational corporations, NGOs, and capital flows. Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one time, the contributors to this volume focus on the city's experience of migration and globalization over the last two centuries. Asking what Istanbul teaches us about living with people whose hopes jostle with one's own, contributors explore the rise, collapse, and fragile rebirth of cosmopolitan conviviality in a once and future world city. The result is a cogent, interdisciplinary exchange about an urban space that is microcosmic of dilemmas of diversity across time and space.
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The house of sciences : the first modern university in the Muslim world
This book examines the process of founding a Western institution, namely a university, in the Ottoman Empire, a cultural environment wholly different from its place of origin in Western Europe. This study sheds new light on an important and pioneering experiment involving both Islamic and Western cultures. It tracks the multifaceted transformation at work in İstanbul during the transition from classical to modern modes of scientific education. As well as explaining the origins of the Darülfünun and the motivations for its founding, this study also highlights the impact of the Ottoman University outside the Ottoman domain. To put this study in the right perspective, concise introductory information is given regarding the origin of the university in Europe, the modernization of the university in the nineteenth century, and the diffusion of the university as an institution of higher education outside Europe, specifically to the Muslim world.
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Gaining freedoms : claiming space in Istanbul and Berlin
Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization. Through proximity, neighborhoods, streets, and squares can create unconventional power contestations over lifestyle and consumption. And through struggle, negotiation, and cooperation, competing claims across groups can become platforms to defend freedom and rights from government encroachments.
Drawing on more than seven years of fieldwork in three contested urban sites—a downtown neighborhood and a university campus in Istanbul, and a Turkish neighborhood in Berlin—Berna Turam shows how democratic contestation echoes through urban space. Countering common assumptions that Turkey is strongly polarized between Islamists and secularists, she illustrates how contested urban space encourages creative politics, the kind of politics that advance rights, expression, and representation shared between pious and secular groups. Exceptional moments of protest, like the recent Gezi protests which bookend this study, offer clear external signs of upheaval and disruption, but it is the everyday contestation and interaction that forge alliances and inspire change. Ultimately, Turam argues that the process of democratization is not the reduction of conflict, but rather the capacity to form new alliances out of conflict.
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The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium
This book offers a new perspective on the Latin take-over of Byzantine territories after the crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204, arguing that the new rulers very consciously aimed at continuing the Eastern Empire, drawing many Byzantines to their side.
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