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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...
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.
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 ...
Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey
This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to everyday concerns, as well as invoking an imperial past at the national level. In this mode of thinking, shaped around a polarised worldview, Republican ideals serve as a counter-image to the promoted splendour and harmony of the Ottomans. Yet, the stereotypical gender roles inextricably linked with this neo-Ottoman imaginary remain largely unacknowledged, dissimulated in the construction of the desire of an idealised past. Our adaption of a cultural studies perspective in this volume puts special emphasis on agency, gender, and authority. It provides a shared ground for the interrogation, through the contributions comprising this project of knowledge production about the past in light of what constitutes acceptable legitimacy in interpreting not only the canonical literature, but history at large.
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...
Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present
Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument. Using a framework of critical urban theory, the book examines Orhan Kemal’s Gurbet Kuşları [The Homesick Birds] (1962); Muzaffer İzgü’s Halo Dayı ve İki Öküz [Uncle Halo and Two Oxen] (1973); Latife Tekin’s Berci Kristin Çöp Masalları [Berji Kristin: Tales From the Garbage Hills] (1984); Metin Kaçan’s Ağır Roman [Heavy Roman(i)] (1990); Ayhan Geçgin’s Kenarda [On the Periphery] (2003); Hatice Meryem’s İnsan Kısım Kısım, Ye...
Turkey in Turmoil
The essays in this book are the first scholarly attempt to examine the complex interrelation of social change and political radicalization during the 1960s. In analyzing topics ranging from the 1968 student uprising, working class politics and trade unionism, Anti-Americanism, right-wing and left-wing militant action, communitarian violence, state coercion, and the artistic representation of these phenomena the contributors offer insights to help to answer why the experiences of this decade turned so radical with lasting polarizing effects on contemporary Turkish society today. Even though issues surrounding the topic are at the very center of intellectual and political debates in today ́s Turkey, such as the collective remembrance of the Turkish “68ers” and of the anti-communist state persecution and prosecution after the military intervention in 1980, a cohesive analysis of this era is still strikingly absent in scholarly works. Thus, “Turkey in Turmoil” is unique in many regards. As important as the presented diversity in research perspectives, the volume will also showcase multiple and, at some point, contesting and even provocative perspectives on the subject at hand.
