Timur Hammond
Biographic Data
| ID | 265463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timur Hammond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timur |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammond |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMOND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4399-0238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Representing Modern Istanbul Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu by Enno Maessen (review)
Reviewed by: Representing Modern Istanbul Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu by Enno Maessen Timur Hammond Enno Maessen. Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. vii 198 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. Hardback, $115. ISBN 9780755637461. Paperback, $39.95. ISBN: 9780755637508. Enno Maessen's introduction includes…
Languages of din: Place, history, and paths
In this commentary, I engage with James Sidaway's recent article, ‘Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies’. I respond to its contributions and provocations by asking two linked questions. First, what is the place of language in these critical Muslim geographies? I suggest that geographers should situate their engagement with key terms in their contexts, a project that complicates how terms like din are taken to be a core part of Musli…
Trajectories of translation
Translation has been a core concern for geographers, particularly in the context of our discipline’s ongoing debate about how to world Geography otherwise. Rather than seeing translation as simply an act of bridging pre-existing differences, this article conceptualizes translation as an act producing differences-in-relation. It traces four “trajectories of translation” that bring geographers’ discussions of translation into new configurations: (1…
Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center: Halid bin Zeyd Ebû Eyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Timur Hammond argues here, howe…
Conjunctions of Islam: Rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver
How should we understand the relationship between artistic practice and religious devotion? This paper answers that question through a close engagement with the archive of the artist, teacher, doctor, and writer Ahmet Süheyl Ünver (b. 1898-d. 1986). Working from notebooks and archival files produced about Eyüp, Istanbul's most important Muslim district, I offer the concept of 'conjunctions of Islam' to develop two linked arguments. First, Ünver's…
Papering, arranging, and depositing: Learning from working with an Istanbul archive
In this paper, I describe a method of learning to work with an Istanbul archive. This archive, containing the papers of the Council for the Preservation of Antiquities, provided a crucial resource for understanding one part of Istanbul's 20th‐century urban transformation. This archive felt exceptionally accessible, without the mediating staff and distance that typically define archival fieldwork in Istanbul. However, this accessibility in fact pr…
Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, power, and memory
In a moment of global urban change, migration, and political transformation, the politics and practices of cultural heritage might seem to have little import. However, this paper argues that focusing on cultural heritage in the Middle East provides two key insights with much broader relevance. First, examining how heritage is made (and unmade) shows one way that regions are constructed through the articulation of material and symbolic connections…
Making Memorial Publics: Media, Monuments, and the Politics of Commemoration Following Turkey's July 2016 Coup Attempt
This paper explores the politics and practices of commemoration in the aftermath of Turkey's July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Developing a concept of "memorial publics," this paper examines two distinct but interrelated forms of commemoration: websites that have been set up to tell the story of the resistance to the coup attempt and a new monument that commemorates the victim-heroes of that night's fighting. I focus on two shared aspects that link the…
Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity
Ipek Tureli. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. xiii and 169 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $140.00 cloth (ISBN 9781409422112); $27.48 electronic (ISBN 9781315590196).Istanbul, Open Cit
The politics of perspective: Subjects, exhibits, and spectacle in Taksim Square, Istanbul
Istanbul’s Taksim Square has long been a place from which people have envisioned the city and the nation. As such, it has a long history of architectural interventions. This essay describes three new interventions as they appeared in July2018, two years after the failed coup attempt of 15July2016: a municipal complex commemorating the resistance to the coup attempt; the juxtaposition of a memorial photo exhibit and the void of the Atatürk Culture…
The Middle East without Space
One of the first ways that many scholars of the Middle East encounter the region is precisely through the lens of “region” itself. Our ability to know the Middle East as a region today, we learn, is a complicated inheritance of imperialism, Orientalism, and Cold War area studies scholarship. To study the Middle East as the “Middle East,” in other words, is to be necessarily positioned within a contested and unequal field of knowledge, one whose c…
Assembling Istanbul: Buildings and bodies in a world city: Introduction
‘Insan sehrin, sehir insanin aynasidir [Man is the city's mirror, and the city is man's].’ (Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan)In the late spring and summer of 2013, Istanbul became the site of a
Matters of the mosque: Changing configurations of buildings and belief in an Istanbul district
Long acknowledged to be a center for religious pilgrimage, the importance of the Istanbul district of Eyüp is widely understood as being founded upon the figure of Halid bin Zeyd Ebâ Eyyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Others point to the district's extensive cultural, political and social significance to explain its particular importance. In contrast, this paper avoids such reductive perspectives and argues that assemblage prov…
The Changs next door to the Diazes: Remapping race in suburban California
Making Memorial Publics: Media, Monuments, and the Politics of Commemoration Following Turkey's July 2016 Coup Attempt
This paper explores the politics and practices of commemoration in the aftermath of Turkey's July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Developing a concept of "memorial publics," this paper examines two distinct but interrelated forms of commemoration: websites that have been set up to tell the story of the resistance to the coup attempt and a new monument that commemorates the victim-heroes of that night's fighting. I focus on two shared aspects that link the…
Assembling Istanbul: Buildings and bodies in a world city: Introduction
‘Insan sehrin, sehir insanin aynasidir [Man is the city's mirror, and the city is man's].’ (Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan)In the late spring and summer of 2013, Istanbul became the site of a
Matters of the mosque: Changing configurations of buildings and belief in an Istanbul district
Long acknowledged to be a center for religious pilgrimage, the importance of the Istanbul district of Eyüp is widely understood as being founded upon the figure of Halid bin Zeyd Ebâ Eyyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Others point to the district's extensive cultural, political and social significance to explain its particular importance. In contrast, this paper avoids such reductive perspectives and argues that assemblage prov…
Trajectories of translation
Translation has been a core concern for geographers, particularly in the context of our discipline’s ongoing debate about how to world Geography otherwise. Rather than seeing translation as simply an act of bridging pre-existing differences, this article conceptualizes translation as an act producing differences-in-relation. It traces four “trajectories of translation” that bring geographers’ discussions of translation into new configurations: (1…
Conjunctions of Islam: Rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver
How should we understand the relationship between artistic practice and religious devotion? This paper answers that question through a close engagement with the archive of the artist, teacher, doctor, and writer Ahmet Süheyl Ünver (b. 1898-d. 1986). Working from notebooks and archival files produced about Eyüp, Istanbul's most important Muslim district, I offer the concept of 'conjunctions of Islam' to develop two linked arguments. First, Ünver's…
The politics of perspective: Subjects, exhibits, and spectacle in Taksim Square, Istanbul
Istanbul’s Taksim Square has long been a place from which people have envisioned the city and the nation. As such, it has a long history of architectural interventions. This essay describes three new interventions as they appeared in July2018, two years after the failed coup attempt of 15July2016: a municipal complex commemorating the resistance to the coup attempt; the juxtaposition of a memorial photo exhibit and the void of the Atatürk Culture…
The Middle East without Space
One of the first ways that many scholars of the Middle East encounter the region is precisely through the lens of “region” itself. Our ability to know the Middle East as a region today, we learn, is a complicated inheritance of imperialism, Orientalism, and Cold War area studies scholarship. To study the Middle East as the “Middle East,” in other words, is to be necessarily positioned within a contested and unequal field of knowledge, one whose c…
Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center: Halid bin Zeyd Ebû Eyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Timur Hammond argues here, howe…
Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, power, and memory
In a moment of global urban change, migration, and political transformation, the politics and practices of cultural heritage might seem to have little import. However, this paper argues that focusing on cultural heritage in the Middle East provides two key insights with much broader relevance. First, examining how heritage is made (and unmade) shows one way that regions are constructed through the articulation of material and symbolic connections…
Assembling Istanbul: Buildings and bodies in a world city: Introduction
‘Insan sehrin, sehir insanin aynasidir [Man is the city's mirror, and the city is man's].’ (Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan)In the late spring and summer of 2013, Istanbul became the site of a
Matters of the mosque: Changing configurations of buildings and belief in an Istanbul district
Long acknowledged to be a center for religious pilgrimage, the importance of the Istanbul district of Eyüp is widely understood as being founded upon the figure of Halid bin Zeyd Ebâ Eyyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Others point to the district's extensive cultural, political and social significance to explain its particular importance. In contrast, this paper avoids such reductive perspectives and argues that assemblage prov…
The Changs next door to the Diazes: Remapping race in suburban California
The Middle East without Space
One of the first ways that many scholars of the Middle East encounter the region is precisely through the lens of “region” itself. Our ability to know the Middle East as a region today, we learn, is a complicated inheritance of imperialism, Orientalism, and Cold War area studies scholarship. To study the Middle East as the “Middle East,” in other words, is to be necessarily positioned within a contested and unequal field of knowledge, one whose c…
Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity
Ipek Tureli. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. xiii and 169 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $140.00 cloth (ISBN 9781409422112); $27.48 electronic (ISBN 9781315590196).Istanbul, Open Cit
The politics of perspective: Subjects, exhibits, and spectacle in Taksim Square, Istanbul
Istanbul’s Taksim Square has long been a place from which people have envisioned the city and the nation. As such, it has a long history of architectural interventions. This essay describes three new interventions as they appeared in July2018, two years after the failed coup attempt of 15July2016: a municipal complex commemorating the resistance to the coup attempt; the juxtaposition of a memorial photo exhibit and the void of the Atatürk Culture…
Papering, arranging, and depositing: Learning from working with an Istanbul archive
In this paper, I describe a method of learning to work with an Istanbul archive. This archive, containing the papers of the Council for the Preservation of Antiquities, provided a crucial resource for understanding one part of Istanbul's 20th‐century urban transformation. This archive felt exceptionally accessible, without the mediating staff and distance that typically define archival fieldwork in Istanbul. However, this accessibility in fact pr…
Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, power, and memory
In a moment of global urban change, migration, and political transformation, the politics and practices of cultural heritage might seem to have little import. However, this paper argues that focusing on cultural heritage in the Middle East provides two key insights with much broader relevance. First, examining how heritage is made (and unmade) shows one way that regions are constructed through the articulation of material and symbolic connections…
Making Memorial Publics: Media, Monuments, and the Politics of Commemoration Following Turkey's July 2016 Coup Attempt
This paper explores the politics and practices of commemoration in the aftermath of Turkey's July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Developing a concept of "memorial publics," this paper examines two distinct but interrelated forms of commemoration: websites that have been set up to tell the story of the resistance to the coup attempt and a new monument that commemorates the victim-heroes of that night's fighting. I focus on two shared aspects that link the…
Representing Modern Istanbul Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu by Enno Maessen (review)
Reviewed by: Representing Modern Istanbul Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu by Enno Maessen Timur Hammond Enno Maessen. Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. vii 198 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. Hardback, $115. ISBN 9780755637461. Paperback, $39.95. ISBN: 9780755637508. Enno Maessen's introduction includes…
Languages of din: Place, history, and paths
In this commentary, I engage with James Sidaway's recent article, ‘Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies’. I respond to its contributions and provocations by asking two linked questions. First, what is the place of language in these critical Muslim geographies? I suggest that geographers should situate their engagement with key terms in their contexts, a project that complicates how terms like din are taken to be a core part of Musli…
Trajectories of translation
Translation has been a core concern for geographers, particularly in the context of our discipline’s ongoing debate about how to world Geography otherwise. Rather than seeing translation as simply an act of bridging pre-existing differences, this article conceptualizes translation as an act producing differences-in-relation. It traces four “trajectories of translation” that bring geographers’ discussions of translation into new configurations: (1…
Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center: Halid bin Zeyd Ebû Eyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Timur Hammond argues here, howe…
Conjunctions of Islam: Rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver
How should we understand the relationship between artistic practice and religious devotion? This paper answers that question through a close engagement with the archive of the artist, teacher, doctor, and writer Ahmet Süheyl Ünver (b. 1898-d. 1986). Working from notebooks and archival files produced about Eyüp, Istanbul's most important Muslim district, I offer the concept of 'conjunctions of Islam' to develop two linked arguments. First, Ünver's…
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