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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
Istanbul focus on the city’s connection to massive migration and globalization over the last two centuries, exploring the rise, collapse, and rebirth of cosmopolitan thinking and behaviors, and trying to sort out what functions as cosmopolitanism and what fails to live up to that term.
Trade Review"
Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City presents a theoretically-guided framing of the city as a site of cosmopolitan intersections from the nineteenth century to the present and is a significant contribution to the field." -- Erdag Göknar * author of Nomadologies *
"Are ‘global cities’ an antidote to populism and nationalism? Istanbul offers some hope" by Nora Fisher Onar * Washington Post *
"An interesting and thoroughly researched edited volume about Istanbul." * Middle East Journal *
"This book offers an interesting and somewhat offbeat look at Istanbul with the desire to combine diverse approaches to history and anthropology....The book also shifts the gaze to the urban and architectural transformation of Istanbul on which there has been a plethora of academic research. Instead, it emphasizes the perception and use of space by different people and communities, and this may be one of the great strengths of this book." * Émulations –Revue de sciences sociales *
