
Istanbul
Between the Global and the Local
Caglar Keyder(Editor)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-0-8476-9495-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 cliches 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.
Reviews / Votes
Incorporating everything from politics to music, the essays demonstrate the complex, yet inevitable, exchange of space , culture and identity that the city and its inhabitants experience as the result of globalizationnnnn * Middle East Journal * This provocative collection of essays reveals the complex relationship between the 'global' and the 'local' in the context of contemporary Istanbul. This book is highly recommended. . . . An interdisciplinary volume that pins down the most important debates about cultural identity, representation, and social and spatial processes within the era of globalization. * Progress In Human Geography * Istanbul takes a fairly unique look at the challenges being faced by the city during this period of contemporary globalization, taking into consideration multiple factors, such as religion, culture, and class. * American Journal of Islamic Social Studies * The volume is worth reading not only because it provides a general understanding of recent developments in the historical world city of Istanbul, but also because it provides new perspectives for global city hypothesis. * Environment and Planning * This insightful volume shows us once more that globalism takes unique shapes and leads to unexpected outcomes in the different locales where it is realized. * Cssh * The most refreshing new book on the 'world city' debate to appear in the last decade. The essays open up the conflictual cultural politics of 'going global' in a cosmopolitan city that has long belonged to different worlds. The authors provide fascinating insights into the uncertain outcomes that globalization has brought to Istanbul. It's original, lively, and puts culture and politics right back on the agenda. -- Anthony King, SUNY Binghamton Incorporating everything from politics to music, the essays demonstrate the complex, yet inevitable, exchange of space , culture and identity that the city and its inhabitants experience as the result of globalization * Middle East Journal *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9495-2 (9780847694952)
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Persons
Caglar Keyder is professor of sociology at Bogazici University.
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Content
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
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