Diaspora of the city : stories of cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens / Ilay Romain Örs.

By:

Örs, İlay Romain [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Palgrave studies in urban anthropologyPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2018.Description: xxv, 264 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781137554857
1137554851

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

949.618

Contents:

Introduction: Basics and Beginnings -- Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Impressions from Everyday Life in Athens -- Exclusive Diversity and the Ambiguity of Being Out of Place -- Resolutionary Recollections: Event, Memory, and Sharing the Suffering -- Capital of Memory: Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia in Istanbul -- Epilogue.

Summary: "As the former capital of two great empires--Eastern Roman and Ottoman--Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism. The Greek-speaking Christian Orthodox community (Rum Polites) is among the oldest in the urban society, yet their leading status during the centuries of imperial cosmopolitanism has faded. They have even been brought to the brink of disappearance in their home city. Scattered around the world as a result of the homogenizing tendencies of nationalism, the Rum Polites in the diaspora of Istanbul ("the City" or Poli) continue to identify with its cosmopolitan legacy, as vividly shown through their everyday practices of distinction and cultural memory. By exploring the shifting meaning of cosmopolitanism in spatial and temporal contexts, Diaspora of the City examines how experiences of forced displacement can highlight changing conceptualizations of what constitutes a local, diasporic, minority, or migrant community in different multicultural urban settings, past and present."-- Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index.

"As the former capital of two great empires--Eastern Roman and Ottoman--Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism. The Greek-speaking Christian Orthodox community (Rum Polites) is among the oldest in the urban society, yet their leading status during the centuries of imperial cosmopolitanism has faded. They have even been brought to the brink of disappearance in their home city. Scattered around the world as a result of the homogenizing tendencies of nationalism, the Rum Polites in the diaspora of Istanbul ("the City" or Poli) continue to identify with its cosmopolitan legacy, as vividly shown through their everyday practices of distinction and cultural memory. By exploring the shifting meaning of cosmopolitanism in spatial and temporal contexts, Diaspora of the City examines how experiences of forced displacement can highlight changing conceptualizations of what constitutes a local, diasporic, minority, or migrant community in different multicultural urban settings, past and present."-- Publisher's description.