Post-Ottoman Coexistence

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and Visiting Professor in the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of numerous works examining the ongoing division in Cyprus, including The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

“This book will be the seminal work on the theme of coexistence. The dissolution of coexistence, which is also a subject of this volume, is an easier subject to cover, but by understanding the terms of coexistence one is better placed to understand the crises and violence that destroyed them too… I cannot think of a better study on the micro-dynamics of difference.” · Nicholas Doumanis, University of New South Wales, Australia

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Everyday Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman SpaceRebecca BryantPART I: LANDSCAPES OF COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICTChapter 1. Sharing Traditions of Land Use and Ownership: Considering the “Ground” for Coexistence and Conflict in Pre-Modern CyprusIrene DietzelChapter 2. Intersecting Religioscapes in Post-Ottoman Spaces: Trajectories Of Change, Competition And Sharing Of Religious SpacesRobert M. HaydenChapter 3. Cosmopolitanism or Constitutive Violence? The Creation of “Turkish” IraklioAris AnagnostopoulosChapter 4. Trade and Exchange in Nicosia’s Shared Realm: Ermou Street in the 1940s and 1950sAnita BakshiPART II: PERFORMING COEXISTENCE AND DIFFERENCEChapter 5. In Bed Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi’s Alexandria FilmsDeborah A. StarrChapter 6. Memory, Conviviality and Coexistence: Negotiating Class Differences in Burgazadası, IstanbulDeniz Neriman DuruChapter 7. “If you write this tačno, it will be točno!”: Performing Linguistic Difference in Postwar Bosnia and HerzegovinaAzra Hromadzic*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages 180-206.PART III: NEGOTIATING EVERYDAY COEXISTENCE IN THE SHADOW OF CONFLICTChapter 8. The Istanbul Armenians: Negotiating CoexistenceSossie KasbarianChapter 9. A Conflict of Spaces or of Recognition? Co-Presence in Divided JerusalemSylvaine BulleChapter 10. Grounds for Sharing, Occasions for Conflict: An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Cohabitation and AntagonismGlenn BowmanIndex