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Streets of Memory (Hardcover, New)
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Streets of Memory (Hardcover, New)
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In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul's historically
most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by
a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once
was--but no longer is--ethnically and religiously diverse?
"Turkification" drove out most of Kuzguncuk's minority Greeks,
Armenians, and Jews in the mid-twentieth century, but they left
behind potent vestiges of their presence in the cityscape. Mills
analyzes these places in a street-by-street ethnographic tour. She
looks at how memory is conveyed and contested in Kuzguncuk's built
environment, whether through the popular television programs filmed
on location there or in the cross-class alliance that sprung up to
advocate the preservation of an old market garden. Overall, she
finds that the neighborhood's landscape not only connotes feelings
of "belonging and familiarity" connected to a "narrative of
historic multiethnic harmony" but also makes these ideas appear to
be uncontestably real, or true. The resulting nostalgia bolsters a
version of Turkish nationalism that seems cosmopolitan and benign.
This study of memories of interethnic relationships in a local
place examines why the cultural memory of tolerance has become so
popular and raises questions regarding the nature and meaning of
cosmopolitanism in the contemporary Middle East.
A major contribution to urban studies, human geography, and Middle
East studies, "Streets of Memory "is imbued with a sense of genuine
connection to Istanbul and the people who live there.
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