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[ecrea] New Book-Whose City Is That? Culture, Design, Spectacle and Capital in Istanbul

Sat Aug 02 06:19:35 GMT 2014




We are happy to announce that Whose City Is That? Culture, Design, Spectacle and Capital in Istanbul is out now. Special thanks to all the contributors, Ayse Akalin, Bahar Aksel, Murat Akser, Sükrü Aslan, Erbatur Çavusoglu, Tahire Erman, Emine Onaran Incirlioglu, Evrim Kavcar, Dilek Özhan Koçak, Orhan Kemal Koçak, Inci Olgun, Ebru Soytemel, Besime Sen, Hande Tekdemir, Nilay Ulusoy, Deniz Ünsal, Eylem Yanardagoglu, Sibel Yardimci and to all the people from Cambridge Scholars Publishing who made this possible.



For reviewing this book please contact Amanda Millar at amanda(dot)millar(at)cambridgescholars(dot)com, she will provide you a copy of the book.



The book can be found here:

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/whose-city-is-that-culture-design-spectacle-and-capital-in-istanbul



or here;

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Design-Spectacle-Capital-Istanbul/dp/1443860433/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406886383&sr=8-1&keywords=whose+city+is+that



PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK

Whose City is That? shows that Istanbul is produced not only by strong and systematic efforts, corporate influences and/or marketing activities, but also by individual contributions and coincidences. As such, the primary purpose of this book is to find the answer of to whom Istanbul does belong, presenting the reader with the richness of human experience and the practice of everyday life. The chapters in this book are therefore focused on the physical and economic dimensions, as well as the imaginary, fictional and hyper-real dimensions, expressing the concern of bringing the real and imaginary borders of the city together. The book provides an understanding that for each inhabitant there is another city, another Istanbul. Each person living in the city creates or lives in another city which is made of their own personal and particular experiences. In addition, the Istanbul the authors understand and describe turns into something different moment by moment, which cannot be defined or identified because of its very nature as a megacity. However, its flow is not aimless and non-directional, and each sign is not causeless or dateless. In this context, in order to make the possibilities of the city visible, the contributors to this volume ask: “Istanbul, whose city is it?” The title of the book enables different academics to ask the same question using different methodologies and subjects. The question “Whose City is That?” and the necessity of studying Istanbul using multidisciplinary perspectives brought many researchers from different fields together, because the city is larger than one approach and the constraints of one “unique” field. Gathering researchers and academics from various disciplines, such as communication studies, cultural studies, cinema/media studies, literature, the fine arts, city and regional planning, political science, social and economic geography, anthropology, and architecture enables each to think about the city alone and together, so as to create new forms of thought and discourse about Istanbul.


CHAPTERS


Introduction:


Is There Any Other Istanbul?

Dilek Özhan Koçak and Orhan Kemal Koçak



Part I: The City of Media



Chapter One

Uncanny Encounters with the City and the Self in Western

Travelogues on Istanbul

Hande Tekdemir



Chapter Two

From Istanbul with Love: The New Orientalism of Hollywood

Murat Akser



Chapter Three

TV Series and the City: Istanbul as a Market for Local Dreams

and Transnational Fantasies

Eylem Yanardagoglu



Part II: The City of Elites



Chapter Four

Networked Gentrification: Place-Making Strategies and Social

Networks of Middle Class Gentrifers in Istanbul

Ebru Soytemel and Besime Sen

Part III: The City of Utopias and Dystopias



Chapter Five

The Transformation of the Urban Periphery: Once Upon a Time

There Were Gecekondus in Istanbul

Sükrü Aslan and Tahire Erman



Chapter Six

Promises and Lies: Themed Living on the Edges of Istanbul

Sibel Yardimci



Chapter Seven

An Emergent Dystopian Place in Istanbul: The Bezirganbahçe

TOKI Housing Estate

Tahire Erman



Part IV: The City of Guerillas



Chapter Eight

Writing on Istanbul: Graffiti of the City

Bahar Aksel and Inci Olgun



Chapter Nine

Disrupting the Amnesia: Metaphoric Artistic Interventions in Istanbul

Evrim Kavcar



Chapter Ten

One-Person Holdings: Tactics of Istanbul’s Street Vendors

Erbatur Çavusoglu and Julia Strutz



Chapter Eleven

“We are the Legionaries!”: Filipina Domestic Workers in Istanbul

Ayse Akalin



Part V: The City of “Culture” and Capital



Chapter Twelve

Fashion’s Night Out: Creating Istanbul’s New Image

Nilay Ulusoy



Chapter Thirteen

The City of the Tourist: Istanbul as an Imaginary City

Dilek Özhan Koçak



Chapter Fourteen

The Reconquest of Constantinople: Reflections on the Contemporary

Landscape and the 1453 Panorama Museum in Istanbul

Deniz Ünsal



Part VI: The City of “Him”



Chapter Fifteen

I Saw Istanbul as a University

Emine Onaran Incirlioglu



Kind regards,

Dilek Özhan Koçak (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)

Giresun University Communication Faculty

Department of Journalism

(dilekkocak77 /at/ gmail.com)



Orhan Kemal Koçak (Asst. Prof. Dr.)

Giresun University Communication Faculty

Department of Radyo, TV and Cinema

(orhankemalkocak /at/ gmail.com)

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