Nurçin Ileri
Biographic Data
| ID | 352816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nurçin Ileri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nurçin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ileri |
| SIGNATURE | ILERI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Social History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2990-8042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Political Ecology of Violence
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul
This article focuses on the earlier encounters and uses of electricity, its technology, and its infrastructure to understand how electricity formed a contested terrain of politics among the city's varying actors, such as state officials, financial investors, and consumers, in late Ottoman Istanbul, roughly between the 1870s and early 1920s. I contend that people used electricity as a political tool in their everyday lives even before they could a…
Objects of Nature and Scientific Knowledge on the Move
This article focuses on the history of the Robert College’s Natural History Museum composed of geological, zoological, and botanical specimens from the 1860s to the 1940s. It is an attempt to re-establish the lost connections -the origins, past uses, and actors- about the college museum which does not physically exist today and whose scientific collections and archival sources have been scattered across different institutions and cities. Housing …
Allure of the Light, Fear of the Dark
İleri's article explores the practice of lighting as a means of development of new spectacles and rise of surveillance in fin-de-siècle Istanbul. It focuses on how the concerns of Ottoman municipal and commercial authorities regarding prosperity and civility gave rise to more city lights and how the installation of these lights contributed to the flamboyant visuality of Istanbul's modern life. It also elaborates on how, in a new world of enhanced…
Between the Real and the Imaginary
Rule, Misconduct, and Dysfunction
Assembling the complexities and problems associated with public order and security in fin-de-siècle Istanbul, Ileri’s article presents a brief institutional history of the modern police forces and provides a vivid picture of the everyday lives of police officers through interrogation reports. It engages with a series of regulations on policing not only as a site of modern state formation policies centered on the aims of development, progress, and…
Rewriting the history of port cities in the light of contemporary global Capitalism
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Rewriting the history of port cities in the light of contemporary global Capitalism
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Rule, Misconduct, and Dysfunction
Assembling the complexities and problems associated with public order and security in fin-de-siècle Istanbul, Ileri’s article presents a brief institutional history of the modern police forces and provides a vivid picture of the everyday lives of police officers through interrogation reports. It engages with a series of regulations on policing not only as a site of modern state formation policies centered on the aims of development, progress, and…
Allure of the Light, Fear of the Dark
İleri's article explores the practice of lighting as a means of development of new spectacles and rise of surveillance in fin-de-siècle Istanbul. It focuses on how the concerns of Ottoman municipal and commercial authorities regarding prosperity and civility gave rise to more city lights and how the installation of these lights contributed to the flamboyant visuality of Istanbul's modern life. It also elaborates on how, in a new world of enhanced…
Between the Real and the Imaginary
Objects of Nature and Scientific Knowledge on the Move
This article focuses on the history of the Robert College’s Natural History Museum composed of geological, zoological, and botanical specimens from the 1860s to the 1940s. It is an attempt to re-establish the lost connections -the origins, past uses, and actors- about the college museum which does not physically exist today and whose scientific collections and archival sources have been scattered across different institutions and cities. Housing …
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul
This article focuses on the earlier encounters and uses of electricity, its technology, and its infrastructure to understand how electricity formed a contested terrain of politics among the city's varying actors, such as state officials, financial investors, and consumers, in late Ottoman Istanbul, roughly between the 1870s and early 1920s. I contend that people used electricity as a political tool in their everyday lives even before they could a…
The Political Ecology of Violence
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