| Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City Contributor(s): Fisher-Onar, Nora (Editor), Pearce, Susan C. (Editor), Keyman, E. Fuat (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813589096 ISBN-13: 9780813589091 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $38.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - History | Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire |
| Dewey: 949.618 |
| LCCN: 2017016374 |
| Series: New Directions in International Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.60 lbs) 212 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Turkey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a proud nation-state even as it has become a global city of multinational corporations, NGOs, and capital flows. Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one time, the contributors to this volume focus on the city's experience of migration and globalization over the last two centuries. Asking what Istanbul teaches us about living with people whose hopes jostle with one's own, contributors explore the rise, collapse, and fragile rebirth of cosmopolitan conviviality in a once and future world city. The result is a cogent, interdisciplinary exchange about an urban space that is microcosmic of dilemmas of diversity across time and space. |