Istanbul

Between the Global and the Local

Contributions by Ayfer Bartu, Tanil Bora, Sema Erder, Ayse Oncu, Martin Stokes, Jenny White, Yael Navaro-Yasin Edited by Caglar Keyder

Publication date:

08 September 1999

Length of book:

210 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780847694945

This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyond these clichés lies a complex reality as Istanbulites simultaneously try to accommodate, understand, challenge, and shape the sweeping transformations that globalization has brought to their city. Explaining the course of the conflicts and the compromises involved in maintaining a precarious urbanity, this theoretically informed volume focuses on fields of struggle ranging from politics to heritage, humor to music, public space to housing.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Setting
Chapter 3 Culture and Politics of Identity
Chapter 4 Who Owns the Old Quarters? Rewriting Histories of the Global Era
Chapter 5 Istanbul of the Conqueror: The "Alternative Global City" Dreams of Political Islam
Chapter 6 The Historical Construction of "Local Culture": Politics of Islamist versus Secularist Identity
Chapter 7 Islamic Chic
Chapter 8 Contested Positions
Chapter 9 Istanbulities and Others: The Cultural Cosmology of Being Middle Class in the Era of Globalism
Chapter 10 Sounding Out: The Culture Industries and the Globalization of Istanbul
Chapter 11 Negotiating Space
Chapter 12 The Housing Market from Informal to Global
Chapter 13 Where Do You Hail From? Localism and Networks in Istanbul
Chapter 14 A Tale of Two Neighborhoods
Chapter 15 Synopsis

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