Diaspora of the City

Stories of Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens

Avİlay Romain Örs

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

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As the former capital of two great empires—Eastern Roman and Ottoman—Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:504 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Antal sidor:264
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137554857

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İlay Romain Örs is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. Örs continues to teach, research, and publish on urban communities, political movements, cultural identity, displacement, and cosmopolitanism in Greece, Turkey, and the Mediterranean.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Basics and Beginnings.- 2. Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Impressions from Everyday Life in Athens.- 3. Exclusive Diversity and the Ambiguity of Being Out of Place.- 4. Resolutionary Recollections: Event, Memory, and Sharing the Suffering.- 5. Capital of Memory: Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia in Istanbul.- 6. Epilogue: An Attempt to Update: Prospects for the Community, the City, and Cosmopolitanism.