The Place of Locality for Identity in the Nation
Minority Narratives of Cosmopolitan Istanbul
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8968660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Mills (University of South Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 401b-401b |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743808081324 |
| OpenAlex | W4247558143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 43 |
These words of an elderly Jewish man in Istanbul relate his memory of neighborhood life with Greeks, Armenians, and Muslims in the neighborhood of Kuzguncuk. In this place, there were no arguments between people of different religious backgrounds; Muslims shared “his” language, and he, as a Jew, knew Greek. As I examine his narrative for what it emphasizes and for the silences in between, I read Kuzguncuk as exceptional: describing an absence of argument in the past suggests that tension exists today; sharing multiple ethnic languages is understood now to be an old-fashioned rarity. His statement “Because we are Kuzguncuklu Jews, our Muslims over there loved us very much” suggests that in Kuzguncuk, he and his Muslim neighbors shared a common tie to place, a unique identity as Kuzguncuklu (of Kuzguncuk) that superseded any difference based on religion or ethnicity. As he describes a culture that remained from Ottoman times, his story illuminates indirectly the current Turkish national context that conditions the telling of his narrative
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Genealogy · Greeks · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Locality · Narrative · Nation state · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Turkish · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Middle East Historiography
Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Conviviality’? Some conceptual considerations concerning the late Ottoman Empire
Cycles of memory and space
Placing Islam
Another Pluralism
Administrative Boundaries, Communal Segregation and Factional Territorialisation
Provincial Cosmopolitanism' in Late Ottoman Anatolia
Provincializing Geographies of Religion
Women in modern Turkish society
Faces of the State
From Empire to Republic
Nostalgia for the Modern
Contested Pasts
Contesting Urban Space in Early Republican Ankara
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey
The Remaking of Istanbul
Fragments of Culture
Place and the Politics of Identity
Race and Nation
Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies
A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way
Greek-Turkish Relations Since 1955
Palestinian Identity
On Collective Memory
On the trajectory of urbanisation in Turkey
Racial ReMappings
Boatmen's and fishermen's guilds in Nineteenth‐century Istanbul
Social memory (new perspectives on the past)
The impact of urban renewal and gentrification on urban fabric
Turkey's Jews and their immigration to Israel
Realms of Memory
The Population of Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century
Place and the Paradox of Modernity
Narratives in City Landscapes
The production of space
The Remaking of Istanbul. Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century
Between Longing and Despair
Places and Their Pasts
Displaced Memories, or the Architecture of Forgetting and Remembrance
Globalization and Social Exclusion in Istanbul
Nostalgia-A Polemic
Boundaries of the nation in the space of the urban
Remembering to Forget
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |