Istanbul Between the Global and the Local

by Keyder, Caglar; Bartu, Ayfer; Bora, Tanil; Erder, Sema; Oncu, Ayse; Stokes, Martin; White, Jenny; Navaro-Yasin, Yael

• ISBN13: 9780847694952
• ISBN10: 084769495X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 clichZs 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.

Author Biography

Ayfer Bartu teaches anthropology at Koc University in Istanbul. Tanil Bora is the author of numerous articles and monographs on nationalist and religious movements in Turkey. Sema Erder teaches at Marmara University in Istanbul. Caglar Keyder teaches sociology at Bogazici University in Istanbul and the State University of New York at Binghamton. Yael Navaro-Yasin teaches in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, U.K. Ayse Oncu teaches at the Sociology Department, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Martin Stokes teaches in the music department at the University of Chicago. Jenny White teaches anthropology at Boston University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment	vii
Part I Introduction
The Setting	3	(28)
Caglar Keyder
Part II Culture and Politics of Identity
Who Owns the Old Quarters? Rewriting Histories in a Global Era	31	(16)
Ayfer Bartu
Istanbul of the Conqueror: The ``Alternative Global City'' Dreams of Political Islam	47	(12)
Tanil Bora
The Historical Construction of Local Culture: Gender and Identity in the Politics of Secularism versus Islam	59	(18)
Yael Navaro-Yasin
Islamic Chic	77	(18)
Jenny B. White
Part III Contested Positions
Istanbulities and Others: The Cultural Cosmology of Being Middle Class in the Era of Globalism	95	(26)
Ayse Oncu
Sounding Out: The Culture Industries and the Globalization of Istanbul	121	(22)
Martin Stokes
Part IV Negotiating Space
The Housing Market from Informal to Global	143	(18)
Caglar Keyder
Where Do You Hail From? Localism and Networks in Istanbul	161	(12)
Sema Erder
A Tale of Two Neighborhoods	173	(14)
Caglar Keyder
Synopsis	187	(12)
Caglar Keyder
Index	199	(2)
About the Editor and Contributors	201