History Takes Place : Istanbul : Dynamics of Urban Change / editors Anna Hofmann, Ayşe Öncü.

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Language: English Publication details: Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, c2016.Description: 207 p. : illus, maps, plans (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:

9783868593686

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LOC classification:

HT178.T8 H57 2016

Contents:

Foreword / Michael Göring -- Acknowledgements / Ayşe Öncü and Anna Hofmann -- Introduction : Snapshots from Distant Times and Spaces / Ayşe Öncü and Anna Hoffmann -- İstanbul - Visions of a Metropolis : Photo Series of Ali Taptık / Marcelle Christiaani -- I. Contested Histories and Memories -- Byzantium, Constantinople, İstanbul? : Latin European Cartographic Statements in the Vicinity of 1453 / Gerda Brunnlechner -- Abide-i Hürriyet : Ideology and Form in the Funerary Art of the Ottoman Empire / Guy Rak -- When UNESCO Touches Ground : Hopes and Limits to Local Heritage Discourses in Istanbul / Vivienne Marquart -- Grave Encounters in Istanbul / Timur Hammond -- II. Home and Exile -- From the Polish Times of Pera : Late Ottoman Istanbul through the Lens of Polish Emigration / Paulina Dominik -- Narrating the Architecture of Turkish Urban Society : The Case of the Apartment Building in Modern Turkish Literature / Lisa Maria Teichmann -- Reconstructing Home : Social and Spatial Practices of Migrants as Agents of Urban Change / Aylin Yıldırım Tschoepe -- Negotiation of the Past and Identities in a Changing Urban Landscape : A Multivocal History of Tophane / Karin Schuitema -- III. Shifting Axes of Exclusion and Resistance : Choreographing Space-Performing Public : Vulnerability and Authenticity in the Production of the Sensible in Duran Adam / Danyel M. Ferrari -- Streets, Squares, and Stages : Theatrical Reflections and Performative Reactions on Life and Change in Istanbul (2010-2013) / Dorothea Volz -- Infinite City : Of Tentacles, Transformations, and the Reoccupation of Urban Spaces / Hendrik Bohle -- Afterword : The Political Function of Cities / Lundger Schwarte -- About the Contributors.

Summary: Reality and imagination blur in our images of Istanbul. Breathtaking panoramas seem to open up views of the entire city, which appears as a whole that encompasses space and time. However, those who immerse themselves into the pulsating metropolis with its nearly 15 million inhabitants soon realize that Istanbul cannot be fully grasped or represented in its entirety. With every step there is a layering of traces of wide-ranging historical eras, which impacts on the present. History Takes Place: Istanbul seeks to open up a new perspective on Istanbul, not through narrative or typical images of East and West, but through a series of spontaneous shots. Contributions by young academics from various disciplines—history, cultural and social sciences, as well as geography, architecture, and urban planning—address contested histories and memories, experiences of home and exile, or of exclusion and resistance in the public sphere. The reader is invited to rethink the relationship between the “historical past” and the “ethnographic present” and at the same time to see how “history” is always in the making in Istanbul.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü Kütüphanesi / Netherlands Institute in Turkey Library	HT178.T8, H57 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Not For Loan		10545

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Reality and imagination blur in our images of Istanbul. Breathtaking panoramas seem to open up views of the entire city, which appears as a whole that encompasses space and time. However, those who immerse themselves into the pulsating metropolis with its nearly 15 million inhabitants soon realize that Istanbul cannot be fully grasped or represented in its entirety. With every step there is a layering of traces of wide-ranging historical eras, which impacts on the present. History Takes Place: Istanbul seeks to open up a new perspective on Istanbul, not through narrative or typical images of East and West, but through a series of spontaneous shots. Contributions by young academics from various disciplines—history, cultural and social sciences, as well as geography, architecture, and urban planning—address contested histories and memories, experiences of home and exile, or of exclusion and resistance in the public sphere. The reader is invited to rethink the relationship between the “historical past” and the “ethnographic present” and at the same time to see how “history” is always in the making in Istanbul.

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