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Öğe CULTURAL POLITICS and CONQUEST CULTURE Report from Istanbul(Duke University Press, 2021) Aksoy, A.; Robins, K.In this article, the authors explore recent developments in urban regeneration in Istanbul, and specifically in the important historic district of Beyoğlu. In one respect, these developments, which are linked to the promotion of cruise ship tourism, are on the same predictable lines as neoliberal projects in other cities across the world. Significantly, in the Istanbul context, local agency is being sidelined, and projects are being financed and managed through the intervention of the central state. In this Turkish version of urban transformation, however, there is a locally distinctive aspect that merits attention. Istanbul is a city that was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, and the discourse of conquest has remained significant within the urban imaginary. And at the present time, it is being mobilized by the state and its cultural ministry, in the cause of creating a new urban image conforming to its Islamist principles. The key project involves the establishment of what is called the Beyoğlu Cultural Route, which is essentially a touristic itinerary. The authors argue that the state’s initiatives, and the route project in particular, involve an erasure — a conquest — of Beyoğlu’s legacy of cosmopolitan values. This discussion explores what has been of civic and cultural value in the lifeworld of Beyoğlu, past and present. Resistance to the state’s control of resources and institutions, and to its conquest ideology, needs to be grounded in civic principles open to diversity and difference in the city. © 2021 Duke University Press.Öğe Heritage, memory, debris: Sulukule, don’t forget(SAGE Publications Inc., 2011) Aksoy, A.; Robins, K.[No abstract available]Öğe Reshaping, installing, pioneering, spearheading… realignment of istanbul(SAGE Publications Inc., 2012) Aksoy, A.; Robins, K.[No abstract available]Öğe Riding the storm: 'New Istanbul'(2012) Aksoy, A.Istanbul is faced with a fundamental dilemma: on the one hand, there is the logic of globalizing the city that is animated and driven by a top-down political ambition; with its drive for wealth creation and increase in the standard of living, for some of its inhabitants at least, through producing the city as a real-estate proposition. And, on the other, there is the principle of the public city with its concern over the common good-inclusive citizenship, the ecological profile, the historic identity and public culture of Istanbul. As the city is colonized by the logic of real-estate-driven growth, becoming globally open, it is losing another kind of openness-the kind of openness that has allowed citizens of all kinds to coexist, and allowed disadvantaged, marginal and incoming migrant communities to survive and make a space for themselves in the city. As Istanbul now becomes a megacity on the trajectory of becoming a regional powerhouse, composed of a fragmentary landscape of gated communities, residential complexes, recreational zones and tourist areas, it ceases to be a real city. Historic districts take their toll in this process, becoming, mono-functional, and in fact, dead spaces. The challenge for civic actors in Istanbul is to negotiate an argument for the public city to survive. The only way for the public city argument to make any headway today is to take into account the fact that the growth-based politics has a popular appeal and support. What is needed is a new kind of critical politics that is able to manage and steer the real-estate-based growth for the public city argument. This is no less a challenge than one of finding a way to ride the storm that is caused by the 'new Istanbul'. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
