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Diaspora of the CityCapital of Memory: Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia in Istanbul

Diaspora of the City: Capital of Memory: Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia in Istanbul [Here I discuss contemporary discourses of cosmopolitanist nostalgia in/of Istanbul. While I elaborate on how the Rum Polites conceptualize Istanbul as their homeland and point of reference, I also reflect on how the other Istanbulite communities, past and present, living in and out of Istanbul, relate to the city discursively as a source for identity. I focus on different types of cosmopolitanism in the writings of Rum Polites to help frame this multireferential concept contextually as a way of differentiating experiential modes of cosmopolitanism. Rather than centering on cosmopolitanism or multiculturalism as a political project of social management, I aim to unravel the diverse and contested emic definitions of what constitutes cosmopolitan living. The case of Rum Polites and Istanbul exemplifies how debates in social theory can be grounded through ethnographic analyses of actual cultural realities, thereby contributing to recent scholarship on the subject.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Diaspora of the CityCapital of Memory: Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia in Istanbul

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-1-137-55485-7
Pages
171 –206
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-55486-4_5
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Here I discuss contemporary discourses of cosmopolitanist nostalgia in/of Istanbul. While I elaborate on how the Rum Polites conceptualize Istanbul as their homeland and point of reference, I also reflect on how the other Istanbulite communities, past and present, living in and out of Istanbul, relate to the city discursively as a source for identity. I focus on different types of cosmopolitanism in the writings of Rum Polites to help frame this multireferential concept contextually as a way of differentiating experiential modes of cosmopolitanism. Rather than centering on cosmopolitanism or multiculturalism as a political project of social management, I aim to unravel the diverse and contested emic definitions of what constitutes cosmopolitan living. The case of Rum Polites and Istanbul exemplifies how debates in social theory can be grounded through ethnographic analyses of actual cultural realities, thereby contributing to recent scholarship on the subject.]

Published: Nov 12, 2017

Keywords: Nostalgic Discourse; Nostalgic Stories; Aya Sofya; Ottoman; Cosmopolitan Past

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