Overview
Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal reengineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, Christopher Houston offers new insights into the meaning and study of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics, relations between political factions and ideologies, and political memory and commemoration. This book is both a social history and an anthropological study, investigating how activist practices and the coup not only contributed to the globalization of Istanbul beginning in the 1980s but also exerted their force and influence into the future.
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Author: Christopher Houston
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9780520343207
ISBN 10: 0520343204
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 17 March 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Prologue List of Political Parties and Groups 1. Spatial Politics, Historiography, Method: Introduction 2. Activism, Perception, Memory: 12 Eylül Museum of Shame 3. De-Ottomanization, Modernism, Migration: A Selective History of Istanbul, 1923–1974 4. Inscription, Sound, Violence: Militant Repertoires and the Production of Space in Istanbul, 1974–1980 5. Gecekondu, Factory, Municipality: Three Fields of Spatial Politics 6. Militants, Ideologies, (F)actions: What Is to Be Done? 7. Pacification, Resistance, Reconstruction: Coup d’État, City of the Fearful, 1980–1983 8. Phenomenology, Event, Commemoration: Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index
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“Istanbul, City of the Fearless is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and is useful as an exemplary framework to study political life and affect in contemporary Istanbul, as well as in other similarly complex geographies.” * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
Istanbul, City of the Fearless is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and is useful as an exemplary framework to study political life and affect in contemporary Istanbul, as well as in other similarly complex geographies. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
Author Information
Christopher Houston is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves and Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation-State.
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