Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict

by Rebecca Bryant (Editor)

Overview

In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted. Contributors discuss both historical and contemporary practices of coexistence within the context of ethno-national conflict and its aftermath.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785331251
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Series:	Space and Place , #16
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and Visiting Professor in the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of numerous works examining the ongoing division in Cyprus, including The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Everyday Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman Space
Rebecca Bryant

PART I: LANDSCAPES OF COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT

Chapter 1. Sharing Traditions of Land Use and Ownership: Considering the “Ground” for Coexistence and Conflict in Pre-Modern Cyprus
Irene Dietzel

Chapter 2. Intersecting Religioscapes in Post-Ottoman Spaces: Trajectories Of Change, Competition And Sharing Of Religious Spaces
Robert M. Hayden

Chapter 3. Cosmopolitanism or Constitutive Violence? The Creation of “Turkish” Iraklio
Aris Anagnostopoulos

Chapter 4. Trade and Exchange in Nicosia’s Shared Realm: Ermou Street in the 1940s and 1950s
Anita Bakshi

PART II: PERFORMING COEXISTENCE AND DIFFERENCE

Chapter 5. In Bed Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi’s Alexandria Films
Deborah A. Starr

Chapter 6. Memory, Conviviality and Coexistence: Negotiating Class Differences in Burgazadası, Istanbul
Deniz Neriman Duru

Chapter 7. “If you write this tačno, it will be točno!”: Performing Linguistic Difference in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
Azra Hromadzic
*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages 180-206.

PART III: NEGOTIATING EVERYDAY COEXISTENCE IN THE SHADOW OF CONFLICT

Chapter 8. The Istanbul Armenians: Negotiating Coexistence
Sossie Kasbarian

Chapter 9. A Conflict of Spaces or of Recognition? Co-Presence in Divided Jerusalem
Sylvaine Bulle

Chapter 10. Grounds for Sharing, Occasions for Conflict: An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Cohabitation and Antagonism
Glenn Bowman

Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book will be the seminal work on the theme of coexistence. The dissolution of coexistence, which is also a subject of this volume, is an easier subject to cover, but by understanding the terms of coexistence one is better placed to understand the crises and violence that destroyed them too... I cannot think of a better study on the micro-dynamics of difference." · Nicholas Doumanis, University of New South Wales, Australia

EBOOK COMMENTARY

“This book will be the seminal work on the theme of coexistence. The dissolution of coexistence, which is also a subject of this volume, is an easier subject to cover, but by understanding the terms of coexistence one is better placed to understand the crises and violence that destroyed them too… I cannot think of a better study on the micro-dynamics of difference.” · Nicholas Doumanis, University of New South Wales, Australia

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