1. Imperial, National, and Global Istanbul: Three Istanbul “Moments” from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword Istanbul: A Space of Untranslatability, a City Always Arising from Its Ashes Like a Phoenix xi
4. Historical Timeline xv
5. Introduction Between Neo-Ottomanism and Neoliberalism: The Politics of Imagining Istanbul 1
6. PART I. The Past of Istanbul’s Present
7. 1. Imperial, National, and Global Istanbul: Three Istanbul “Moments” from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries 25
8. 2. Promiscuous Places: Cosmopolitan Milieus between Empire and Nation 38
9. 3. The Past Is a Different City: Istanbul, Memoirs, and Multiculturalism 53
10. 4. Cosmopolitanism, Violence, and the State in Istanbul and Odessa 66
11. PART II. Paradise Lost: Contested Memories of Cosmopolis
12. 5. Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia: Geographies, Histories, and Memories of the Rum Polites 81
13. 6. Cosmopolitanism as Situated Knowledge: Reading Istanbul with David Harvey 97
14. 7. Hagia Sophia’s Tears and Smiles: The Ambivalent Life of a Global Monument 112
15. PART III. Actually Existing Conviviality: Sharing Space in a Globalizing City
16. 8. Living Together in Ambivalence in a Migrant Neighborhood of Istanbul 131
17. 9. Contesting the “Third Bridge” in Istanbul: Local Environmentalism, Cosmopolitan Attachments? 145
18. 10. Performing Pride in a Summer of Dissent: Istanbul’s LGBT Parades 160
19. Acknowledgments 177
20. Recommended Further Reading 179
21. Web Resources 181
22. Notes on Contributors 183
23. Index 187