Istanbul : living with difference in a global city / edited by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, E. Fuat Keyman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and index.

Istanbul : historical timeline -- Foreword : Istanbul : a space of untranslatability, a city always arising from its ashes -- Like a phoenix / E. Fuat Keyman -- Introduction : between neo-Ottomanism and neo-liberalism : the politics of imagining Istanbul / Nora Fisher-Onar -- The past of Istanbul's present -- Imperial, national, and global city : three Istanbul "moments" from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries / Caglar Keyder -- Promiscuous places : cosmopolitan milieus between empire and nation / Sami Zubaida -- The past is a different city : Istanbul, memoirs, and multiculturalism / Feyzi Baban -- Cosmopolitanism, violence, and the state in Istanbul and Odessa / Charles King -- Paradise lost? Contested memories of cosmo-polis -- Cosmopolitanist nostalgia : geographies, histories, and memories of the rum polites / Ilay Romain Ors -- Cosmopolitanism as situated knowledge : reading Istanbul with David Harvey / Amy Mills -- Hagia Sophia's tears and smiles : the ambivalent life of a global monument / Anna Bigelow -- Actually existing convivality : sharing space in a globalizing city -- Living together in ambivalence in a migrant neighborhood of Istanbul / Kristen Sarah Biehl -- Contesting the "third bridge" in Istanbul : local environmentalism, cosmopolitan attachments? / Hande Paker -- Performing pride in a summer of dissent : Istanbul's LGBT parades / Susan C. Pearce.

Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a proud nation-state even as it has become a global city of multinational corporations, NGOs, and capital flows. Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one time, the contributors to this volume focus on the city's experience of migration and globalization over the last two centuries. Asking what Istanbul teaches us about living with people whose hopes jostle with one's own, contributors explore the rise, collapse, and fragile rebirth of cosmopolitan conviviality in a once and future world city. The result is a cogent, interdisciplinary exchange about an urban space that is microcosmic of dilemmas of diversity across time and space.