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

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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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• fenomenoloji
• İstanbul
• hafıza
• kent çalışmaları
• kent siyaseti

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

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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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• urban studies
• memory
• urban politics
• Istanbul
• phenomenology

Kaynakça

1. 1 Manuel Castells, The Urban Question (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977).
2. 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);
3. 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).
4. 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.