Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local: World Social Change Ayfer Bartu Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Istanbul

Between the Global and the Local

Textbook

Istanbul

Between the Global and the Local

Textbook

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 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

Product details

Published	Sep 01 1999
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	210
ISBN	9780847694952
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	224 x 153 mm
Series	World Social Change
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Caglar Keyder

Contributor

Ayfer Bartu

Contributor

Tanil Bora

Contributor

Sema Erder

Contributor

Ayse Oncu

Contributor

Martin Stokes

Contributor

Jenny White

Contributor

Yael Navaro-Yasin

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