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Istanbul, City of the Fearless : Urban Activism, Coup d'état, and Memory in Turkey / Christopher Houston.

By: Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: pages 227; cm22Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520343191
  • 9780520343207
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Istanbul, city of the fearlessDDC classification:
  • 949.61/804 23 H843
Contents:
Spatial politics, historiography, method : introduction -- Activism, perception, memory : 12 eylül museum of shame -- De-Ottomanization, modernism, migration : a selective history of Istanbul, 1923-1974 -- Inscription, sound, violence : militant repertoires and the production of space in Istanbul, 1974-1980 -- Gecekondu, factory, municipality : three fields of spatial politics -- Militants, ideologies, (f)actions : what is to be done? -- Pacification, resistance, reconstruction : coup d'état, city of the fearful 1980-1983 -- Phenomenology, event, commemoration : conclusion.
Summary: "Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal re-engineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, it offers new insights into the meaning and study of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics, relations between political fractions and ideologies, and political memory/commemoration. Its theoretical and conceptual contributions have implications far beyond its particular focus on Istanbul"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spatial politics, historiography, method : introduction -- Activism, perception, memory : 12 eylül museum of shame -- De-Ottomanization, modernism, migration : a selective history of Istanbul, 1923-1974 -- Inscription, sound, violence : militant repertoires and the production of space in Istanbul, 1974-1980 -- Gecekondu, factory, municipality : three fields of spatial politics -- Militants, ideologies, (f)actions : what is to be done? -- Pacification, resistance, reconstruction : coup d'état, city of the fearful 1980-1983 -- Phenomenology, event, commemoration : conclusion.

"Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal re-engineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, it offers new insights into the meaning and study of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics, relations between political fractions and ideologies, and political memory/commemoration. Its theoretical and conceptual contributions have implications far beyond its particular focus on Istanbul"--