Istanbul

Between the Global and the Local
Herausgeber: Keyder, Caglar

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in Istanbul, one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Explaining the course of the conflicts and the compromises involved in maintaining a precarious urbanity, this theoretically informed volume focuses on the fields of struggle ranging from politics to heritage, humor to music, public space to housing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780847694952
• ISBN-10: 084769495X
• Artikelnr.: 21070322

Autorenporträt

Caglar Keyder is professor of sociology at Bogazici University.

Inhaltsangabe

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