Overview

How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time. Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term “late nationalism”.

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Author:   Nicolas Argenti
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   8
ISBN:  

9781789202397

ISBN 10:   1789202396
Pages:   155
Publication Date:   21 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State Nicolas Argenti Chapter 1. Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece Daniel M. Knight Chapter 2. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina David Henig Chapter 3. Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness Alice von Bieberstein Chapter 4. The Material Life of War at the Greek Border Laurie Kain Hart Chapter 5. (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event Penelope Papailias Chapter 6. Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos Séverine Rey Chapter 7. “Eyes Shut, Muted Voices”: Narrating and Temporalizing the Post-Civil War Era through a Monument Dimitra Gefou-Madianou Chapter 8. Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World Charles Stewart Bibliography Index

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This outstanding collection shows us that even after imperial borders disappear, the legacy of empire lives on in the intimate spaces of affect, emotion, gesture, and memory. The focus on the post-Ottoman is a challenge to definitions of the postcolonial that limit it to Western European empires. This makes the book essential reading not only in Middle Eastern and Balkan Studies but also for scholars who wish to think more broadly about imperial half-lives. - Rebecca Bryant, Utrecht University This highly original volume studies the post-Ottoman condition in terms of how time is experienced socially, cosmologically, and experientially. It will be a crucial reference not only for studies of post-Ottoman geographies, but also for the comparative and conceptual anthropology of temporality. - Yael Navaro, University of Cambridge

Author Information

Nicolas Argenti is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is the author of The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (2007) and coeditor of several collections, including (with Katharina Schramm) Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (2010).

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