Post-Ottoman Topologies

Nicolas Argenti is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is the author of The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (2007) and coeditor of several collections, including (with Katharina Schramm) Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (2010).

"This outstanding collection shows us that even after imperial borders disappear, the legacy of empire lives on in the intimate spaces of affect, emotion, gesture, and memory. The focus on the "post-Ottoman" is a challenge to definitions of the postcolonial that limit it to Western European empires. This makes the book essential reading not only in Middle Eastern and Balkan Studies but also for scholars who wish to think more broadly about imperial half-lives." - Rebecca Bryant, Utrecht University"This highly original volume studies the post-Ottoman condition in terms of how time is experienced socially, cosmologically, and experientially. It will be a crucial reference not only for studies of post-Ottoman geographies, but also for the comparative and conceptual anthropology of temporality." - Yael Navaro, University of Cambridge

• Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-StateNicolas ArgentiChapter 1. Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central GreeceDaniel M. KnightChapter 2. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-HerzegovinaDavid HenigChapter 3. Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of SenselessnessAlice von BiebersteinChapter 4. The Material Life of War at the Greek BorderLaurie Kain HartChapter 5. (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media EventPenelope PapailiasChapter 6. Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in LesbosSeverine ReyChapter 7. "Eyes Shut, Muted Voices": Narrating and Temporalizing the Post-Civil War Era through a MonumentDimitra Gefou-MadianouChapter 8. Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman WorldCharles StewartBibliographyIndex