Christopher Houston is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves and Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation-State.

“Istanbul, City of the Fearless is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and is useful as an exemplary framework to study political life and affect in contemporary Istanbul, as well as in other similarly complex geographies.”

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueList of Political Parties and Groups1. Spatial Politics, Historiography, Method: Introduction2. Activism, Perception, Memory: 12 Eylül Museum of Shame3. De-Ottomanization, Modernism, Migration: A Selective Historyof Istanbul, 1923–19744. Inscription, Sound, Violence: Militant Repertoires and theProduction of Space in Istanbul, 1974–19805. Gecekondu, Factory, Municipality: Three Fields of Spatial Politics6. Militants, Ideologies, (F)actions: What Is to Be Done?7. Pacification, Resistance, Reconstruction: Coup d’État,City of the Fearful, 1980–19838. Phenomenology, Event, Commemoration: ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Christopher Houston is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves and Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation-State.

“Istanbul, City of the Fearless is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and is useful as an exemplary framework to study political life and affect in contemporary Istanbul, as well as in other similarly complex geographies.”

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueList of Political Parties and Groups1. Spatial Politics, Historiography, Method: Introduction2. Activism, Perception, Memory: 12 Eylül Museum of Shame3. De-Ottomanization, Modernism, Migration: A Selective Historyof Istanbul, 1923–19744. Inscription, Sound, Violence: Militant Repertoires and theProduction of Space in Istanbul, 1974–19805. Gecekondu, Factory, Municipality: Three Fields of Spatial Politics6. Militants, Ideologies, (F)actions: What Is to Be Done?7. Pacification, Resistance, Reconstruction: Coup d’État,City of the Fearful, 1980–19838. Phenomenology, Event, Commemoration: ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Christopher Houston is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves and Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation-State.

“Istanbul, City of the Fearless is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and is useful as an exemplary framework to study political life and affect in contemporary Istanbul, as well as in other similarly complex geographies.”

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueList of Political Parties and Groups1. Spatial Politics, Historiography, Method: Introduction2. Activism, Perception, Memory: 12 Eylül Museum of Shame3. De-Ottomanization, Modernism, Migration: A Selective Historyof Istanbul, 1923–19744. Inscription, Sound, Violence: Militant Repertoires and theProduction of Space in Istanbul, 1974–19805. Gecekondu, Factory, Municipality: Three Fields of Spatial Politics6. Militants, Ideologies, (F)actions: What Is to Be Done?7. Pacification, Resistance, Reconstruction: Coup d’État,City of the Fearful, 1980–19838. Phenomenology, Event, Commemoration: ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex