Contested Spaces in Contemporary Turkey

Fatma Muge Gocek is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research analyzes the impact of processes such as development, nationalism, religious movements and collective violence on minorities. Her recently published books include Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East (2002) and The Transformation of Turkey: Redefining State and Society from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era (2011). She has also co-edited A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (2011) has contributed to a variety of books and journals.

• IntroductionContested Spaces in Neoliberal TurkeyFatma Müge GöçekPART I. HISTORYTurkey, Syria and France Contesting Sovereignty over AntiochSarah ShieldsAnkara’s Forgotten Mental Maps, Changing Demography and Missing MinoritiesZeynep KezerHistory and Diversity in a Border Province: The Non-Muslim Urban Past in today's Edirne"Zeynep Ka?l?PART II. STATEMobilizing the State, Monitoring the Countryside: Mobile Village Courses in TurkeyMetin YükselIstanbul Confidential: Heroin, Espionage, and the Politics of Cold War in Turkey, 1945-1960Ryan GingerasA Space Apart or a Part of Society? Turkish Mosques in Western Germany in the 1970s and the 1990sSarah Thomsen VierraThe State, Law and Feminist Struggles in the Neoliberalizing City: The Istanbul CourthouseTu?çe Ellialt?The Political Economy of a Conservation Plan: The Case of Uluabat LakeCeren Soylu, Fikret Adaman and Bengi AkbulutFrom Shining Icons of Progress to Contested Infrastructures: “Damming” the Munzur Valley in Eastern TurkeyLaurent DissardPART III. THE MARKETIrregular Migration and Negotiated Urban Space in Kumkap?, ?stanbulKristen BiehlTurkey’s Shady Urban Neoliberalism: The Corruption Scandal and the Normalization of Informality during the AKP RuleBurak KöseRefusing to Become Pious Soldiers: Islamist Conscientious Objection in TurkeyP?nar Kemerli“Wake Up” and “Nomad”: Competing Visions of Turkish and Kurdish Environmentalism in the Music of Tarkan and AynurOzan Emrah Aksoy