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

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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