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Whose City Is That? Culture, Design, Spectacle and Capital in Istanbul
Whose City is That? shows that Istanbul is produced not only by strong and systematic efforts, corporate influences and/or marketing activities, but also by individual contributions and coincidences. As such, the primary purpose of this book is to find the answer of to whom Istanbul does belong, presenting the reader with the richness of human experience and the practice of everyday life. The chapters in this book are therefore focused on the physical and economic dimensions, as well as the imaginary, fictional and hyper-real dimensions, expressing the concern of bringing the real and imaginary borders of the city together. The book provides an understanding that for each inhabitant there is...
Mediterranean in Dis/order
Mediterranean in Dis/order reveals the connection between space and politics by examining the role that space has played in insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean region. With this approach, the authors are able to challenge well-established beliefs about the power structure of the state across different disciplines (including political science, history, sociology, geography, and anthropology), and its impact on the conception, production, and imagination of space in the broader Mediterranean. Further, they contribute to particular areas of studies, such as migration, political Islam, mobilization, and transition to democracy, among others. The book, infusing...
Bringing History to Life through Film
Whether re-creating an actual event or simply being set in a bygone era, films have long taken liberties with the truth. While some members of the audience can appreciate a movie without being distracted by historical inaccuracies, other viewers are more discerning. From revered classics like Gone with the Wind to recent award winners like Argo, Hollywood films often are taken to task for their loose adherence to the facts. But what obligation do filmmakers have to the truth when trying to create a two-hour piece of entertainment? In Bringing History to Life through Film: The Art of Cinematic Storytelling, Kathryn Anne Morey brings together essays that explore the controversial issue of film...
The City on Screen: Modern Strangers of Cinematic Istanbul
‘The City on Screen: Modern Strangers of Cinematic Istanbul’ attempts to analyze how Istanbul is captured through the projector; in other words, the ontological relationship between city and film and how it is elaborated within the context of Istanbul and the sense of strangerhood. This book shifts the axis of Istanbul, typically known as a touristic city, to its underlying details through the strangers in the modern city. Five different films set in this region are analyzed in the text that help to reveal and clarify the socio-urban life of modern Istanbul. The characters and stories in these films tell how Istanbul has socially and architecturally become a city of strangers. The films ...
Remembering Digitally
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2012. The notion of digital memories emerged mainly from the encounter of memory studies and media studies as a result of the opportunites of storage and dissemination of data provided by information technologies. Yet, the notion has became an area of focus for many researchers and artists as the notion of memory itself has always been subject to discussions and works from various disciplines. Accordingly, Digital Memories project has become an important branch of interdisciplinary studies and of the Interdisciplinary.Net network. In March 2012, the 4th Global Conference on Digital Memories has been organized in Prague. This e-book is a compilation of the six papers that were presented by researchers and practitioners from different georgraphies and disciplines in the conference. The authors introduce different approaches to the contemporary issue of remembering digitally, elaborating on theoretical, practical and creative aspects of the relation between remembering and digital technologies.
The Ottoman Press (1908-1923)
The Ottoman Press (1908-1923) looks at Ottoman periodicals in the period after the Second Constitutional Revolution (1908) and the formation of the Turkish Republic (1923). It analyses the increased activity in the press following the revolution, legislation that was put in place to control the press, the financial aspects of running a publication, preventive censorship and the impact that the press could have on readers. There is also a chapter on the emergence and growth of the Ottoman press from 1831 until 1908, which helps readers to contextualize the post-revolution press.
Bir Şehri Konuşurken: İstanbul
‘Herkes ‘değişti’ dememi bekliyor. Ben de onların kafasını karıştırmak için, ‘değişmedi’ diyorum. Benim İstanbul’um yerinde duruyor, zaten onu aramayı sürdürdüğümüz sürece kaybetmeniz mümkün değil...’ John Freely. İstanbul’un dönüşümünü kavramak ya da takip etmek zor olsa da; bu kentin bir sakini olarak aslında kendi kurduğumuz kentte yaşamaya devam ediyoruz: kendi Güzel İstanbul’umuzda... Ve elbette ki, her kentte olduğu gibi bu kent de dönüşecek, hatta farklı değişkenlere bağlı olarak yıkılıp yeniden ve yeniden kurulacak. Bu dönüşümlere rağmen John Freely ‘İstanbul değişti mi?’ sorusuna nasıl değişmedi yanıtını veriyorsa, belleğimizdeki ‘İstanbul’ da değişmiyor. Bir Şehri Düşünürken: İstanbul, yazarlarının akademik bakışıyla, İstanbul’u, yapıları, meydanları, bahçeleri, parkları, sokakları ağırlıklı olarak kamusal paylaşım alanları üzerinden yorumlayan ve aradığı İstanbul’a varmak için umutlu olan yazılardan oluşuyor. Keyifle okumanız dileğiyle...
Bomonti
İstanbul’un en eski semtlerinden biri olan Bomonti, asırlık geçmişinde sayısız dönüşüme sahne olmuş bir yerleşim yeri. Osmanlı’dan bugüne, bir yanda teneke mahallesi ve gecekonduları, diğer yanda Levanten yaşam tarzı tüm renkliliğiyle hüküm sürerken, tarihi çok eskilere dayanan büyük fabrikalar etrafında gelişen işçi yaşamı ile orta sınıf semt sakinlerinin apartman yaşantısı yan yana varlığını sürdürmüş. Bugün Bomonti, yükselen yeni rezidansları ve sunulan yeni yaşam tarzlarıyla kentsel dönüşümün tam da kalbinde yer alıyor. Bomonti Kentsel Dönüşüm ve Mekânın Belleği, Bomonti’nin geçirdiği bu dönüşümü tüm yönleriyl...
Remembering World War II
The book demonstrates an evidence-based approach to online memory practices of World War II. Network analysis is applied to reduce a massive and unreadable dataset of forum texts and user relations. Further, the results are combined with other text analysis methods, such as topic modeling and contrastive stylometric analyses. A sample of discussions from each group is read and categorized. Based on the results, the forum users‘ memory practices are labelled as empirical, conversational and conservational practices, whereby recent theoretical developments in Memory Studies are considered.
Istanbul, Open City
Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture. This is often in response to technological, economic and societal transformations in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries in select Euro-American metropolises. In contrast, non-Western cities in the modern period are often considered through the lens of Westernization and development. How do we account for urban modernity in "other" cities? This book seeks to highlight cultural creativity by examining the diverse and shifting ways Istanbulites have defined themselves while they debate, imagine, ...
