The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where
Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities …

Fear is the underlying characteristic of secularism in Turkey. This is the fear of “reactionary
Islam”(irtica) or, put differently, the fear of either a creeping or violent radical Islamism. If …

This article focuses on contemporary research in geography on issues of public memory and
commemoration—the ways in which discourse of the past is constructed socially and …

In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul's historically most tolerant, multiethnic
neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a …

In contemporary Turkey, a growing interest in Ottoman history represents a change in both
the official state discourse and popular culture. This nostalgia appropriates, reinterprets …

As Michel Foucault has famously stated,'knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting'. In this spirit, the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

Since the late 1990s Turkish consumers have purchased pictures of Atatürk, the founder of
modern Turkey and the most potent symbol of the Turkish state, as popular commodities …

Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history
museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory …

This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU
focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact …

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by
ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea coast and the shores of the …