Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Istanbul, City of the Fearless is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and is useful as an exemplary framework to study political life and affect in contemporary Istanbul, as well as in other similarly complex geographies.”
* International Journal of Middle East Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue
List of Political Parties and Groups
1. Spatial Politics, Historiography, Method: Introduction
2. Activism, Perception, Memory: 12 Eylül Museum of Shame
3. De-Ottomanization, Modernism, Migration: A Selective History
of Istanbul, 1923–1974
4. Inscription, Sound, Violence: Militant Repertoires and the
Production of Space in Istanbul, 1974–1980
5. Gecekondu, Factory, Municipality: Three Fields of Spatial Politics
6. Militants, Ideologies, (F)actions: What Is to Be Done?
7. Pacification, Resistance, Reconstruction: Coup d’État,
City of the Fearful, 1980–1983
8. Phenomenology, Event, Commemoration: Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
