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Christopher Houston, Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’État and Memory in Turkey. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. xii + 227 pages, 3 figures. ISBN: 9780520373191

Year 2020, Volume: 2, 210 - 211, 22.12.2020
https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2020.20

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Christopher Houston, Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’État and Memory in Turkey. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. xii + 227 pages, 3 figures. ISBN: 9780520373191 kitabının Sinan Erensü tarafından yazılmış tenkidi.

References

  • 1 Manuel Castells, The Urban Question (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977).
  • 2 David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the right to the city to the urban revolution (London: Verso, 2012); Mustafa Dikeç, Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017); Donatella Della Porta, Global Diffusion of Protest: Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017);
  • Mustafa Dikeç and Erik Swyngedouw, “Theorizing the politicizing city,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41, no. 1 (2017): 1–18; Andy Merrifield, The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013).
  • 3 More on this critical period see Aslı Bâli, “Unpacking Turkey’s ‘Court-Packing’ Referendum,” Middle East Report Online 5 (2010); İsmet Akça, “AKP, Anayasa değişikliği referandumu ve sol: ‘Yetmez ama evet’in açmazları,” Mesele 45 (2010): 1–19; Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, “Kulturkampf in Turkey: The constitutional referendum of 12 September 2010,” South European Society and Politics 17, no. 1 (2012): 1–22.

Christopher Houston, Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’État and Memory in Turkey. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. xii + 227 pages, 3 figures. ISBN: 9780520373191

Year 2020, Volume: 2, 210 - 211, 22.12.2020
https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2020.20

Abstract

Book review of Christopher Houston, Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’État and Memory in Turkey. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. xii + 227 pages, 3 figures. ISBN: 9780520373191, written by Sinan Erensü.

References

  • 1 Manuel Castells, The Urban Question (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977).
  • 2 David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the right to the city to the urban revolution (London: Verso, 2012); Mustafa Dikeç, Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017); Donatella Della Porta, Global Diffusion of Protest: Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017);
  • Mustafa Dikeç and Erik Swyngedouw, “Theorizing the politicizing city,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41, no. 1 (2017): 1–18; Andy Merrifield, The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013).
  • 3 More on this critical period see Aslı Bâli, “Unpacking Turkey’s ‘Court-Packing’ Referendum,” Middle East Report Online 5 (2010); İsmet Akça, “AKP, Anayasa değişikliği referandumu ve sol: ‘Yetmez ama evet’in açmazları,” Mesele 45 (2010): 1–19; Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, “Kulturkampf in Turkey: The constitutional referendum of 12 September 2010,” South European Society and Politics 17, no. 1 (2012): 1–22.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Human Geography, Urban Policy
Journal Section Reviews and Istanbul Bibliography
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Sinan Erensü This is me 0000-0001-6305-4071

Publication Date December 22, 2020
Submission Date October 14, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 2

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Chicago Erensü, Sinan. “Christopher Houston, Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d’État and Memory in Turkey. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Xii + 227 Pages, 3 Figures. ISBN: 9780520373191”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2, December (December 2020): 210-11. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2020.20.