Istanbul, city of the fearless : urban activism, coup d'état, and memory in Turkey / Christopher Houston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houston, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology and history--Turkey--Istanbul--20th century.

Anthropology and history.

History.

Social aspects.

Istanbul (Turkey)--History--20th century.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Turkey--History--Coup d'état, 1980--Social aspects.

Turkey.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal re-engineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, it offers new insights into the meaning and study of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics, relations between political fractions and ideologies, and political memory/commemoration."--Back cover.

Contents:

Spatial politics, historiography, method : introduction

Activism, perception, memory : 12 eylül museum of shame

De-Ottomanization, modernism, migration : a selective history of Istanbul, 1923-1974

Inscription, sound, violence : militant repertoires and the production of space in Istanbul, 1974-1980

Gecekondu, factory, municipality : three fields of spatial politics

Militants, ideologies, (f)actions : what is to be done?

Pacification, resistance, reconstruction : coup d'état, city of the fearful 1980-1983

Phenomenology, event, commemoration : conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.

ISBN:

9780520343191

0520343190

9780520343207

0520343204

OCLC:

1147702101