Houston, Christopher,
Istanbul, city of the fearless: urban activism, coup d'Etat, and memory in Turkey [electronic resource] / Christopher Houston. - xiv, 228 pages : online resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index (pages 221-227).
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 reengineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, Christopher Houston offers new insights into the meaning and study of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics, relations between political factions and ideologies, and political memory and commemoration. This book is both a social history and an anthropological study, investigating how activist practices and the coup not only contributed to the globalization of Istanbul beginning in the 1980s but also exerted their force and influence into the future.
9780520974678
Social science --Anthropology
Cultural history
History --Middle East --Turkey & Ottoman Empire
DR731 / .I88 2020
Istanbul, city of the fearless: urban activism, coup d'Etat, and memory in Turkey [electronic resource] / Christopher Houston. - xiv, 228 pages : online resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index (pages 221-227).
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 reengineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, Christopher Houston offers new insights into the meaning and study of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics, relations between political factions and ideologies, and political memory and commemoration. This book is both a social history and an anthropological study, investigating how activist practices and the coup not only contributed to the globalization of Istanbul beginning in the 1980s but also exerted their force and influence into the future.
9780520974678
Social science --Anthropology
Cultural history
History --Middle East --Turkey & Ottoman Empire
DR731 / .I88 2020