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This book explores competing definitions of Hellenism in the making
of the Greek state by drawing on critical historical and
geopolitical perspectives and their intersection with difference
and exclusion. It examines Greece’s central role in shaping the
state system, regional security, and nationalisms of the Balkans,
the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean regions. Understanding
the Greek State's social constitution helps learn about the past
and present intentions and strategies as well as local, national,
and European notions of security and identity. The book looks at
the relation of subaltern communities to state power and the
state’s ability and willingness to negotiate difference. It also
explores how the State’s identity politics shaped regional
geopolitics in the past two centuries. Chapters present case
studies that shed light on the Hellenization of Jewish
Thessaloniki, the Treaty of Lausanne’s making of Western
Thrace’s Muslim minority, the role and modes of settlement,
urbanization, and ‘bordering-as-statecraft’ in Eastern
Macedonia and Western Thrace, and the politics of erecting the
Athens Mosque, the first officially-licensed mosque outside Western
Thrace since Greek Independence. With examples from fieldwork in
Greek cities and borderlands, this book offers a wealth of primary
research from geographers and historians on the modern history of
Greek statehood. It will be of key interest to scholars of
political geography, international relations, and European history.
This book explores competing definitions of Hellenism in the making
of the Greek state by drawing on critical historical and
geopolitical perspectives and their intersection with difference
and exclusion. It examines Greece's central role in shaping the
state system, regional security, and nationalisms of the Balkans,
the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean regions. Understanding
the Greek State's social constitution helps learn about the past
and present intentions and strategies as well as local, national,
and European notions of security and identity. The book looks at
the relation of subaltern communities to state power and the
state's ability and willingness to negotiate difference. It also
explores how the State's identity politics shaped regional
geopolitics in the past two centuries. Chapters present case
studies that shed light on the Hellenization of Jewish
Thessaloniki, the Treaty of Lausanne's making of Western Thrace's
Muslim minority, the role and modes of settlement, urbanization,
and 'bordering-as-statecraft' in Eastern Macedonia and Western
Thrace, and the politics of erecting the Athens Mosque, the first
officially-licensed mosque outside Western Thrace since Greek
Independence. With examples from fieldwork in Greek cities and
borderlands, this book offers a wealth of primary research from
geographers and historians on the modern history of Greek
statehood. It will be of key interest to scholars of political
geography, international relations, and European history.
Everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and
inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume
analyzes landscapes of music, community, and exclusion across a
century and a half.An interdisciplinary group of scholars and
artists presents four case studies: the rembetika, the music of the
Asiks, the Zakir/Alevi tradition, and hip-hop, in Beyoglu,
UEskudar, the gentrifying Sulukule neighborhood, and across the
metropolis.
If a city based its planning decisions on the needs of an
international bureaucracy rather than on the traditional needs of
local residents and businesses, how would that city change? How
might it look? In Brussels, Belgium - home to the European Union
since 1957 - such change is taking place. Observing the change,
Alexis G. Papadopoulos explores a new geographical concept, the
Central Executive District. This urban form is significantly
different from the Central Business District, its conventional
counterpart. Drawing on game and rational choice theories, spatial
analysis and land economics, the author analyzes how the landscape
of the city's centre has evolved over the last three decades under
the influence of successive coalitions of local and foreign elites.
He describes how foreign diplomats, international corporate
executives and real-estate developers co-operate with one another
to carry out major urban projects in the face of resistance from
local neighbourhood groups, conservationists and political
factions. This study explores the future of world cities like New
York, London and Paris and applies the notion of co-operative
regimes.
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