The state and the stray dogs in late Ottoman Istanbul: from unruly subjects to servile friends
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Tarih
2018
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
The present article situates the systemic efforts to annihilate stray dogs within the wider picture of Ottoman modernizing reforms in the nineteenth century. The period under investigation witnessed an increasing desire on the part of the modern Ottoman state to control and reform disenfranchised human and animal groups, which were believed to jeopardize public order, security and hygiene. These groups - beggars, orphans and the unemployed - were identified as actors irreconcilable with the modern image that the reforming bureaucracy and modernizing elites sought to project. In the face of increasing challenges from European powers, they were the epitome of underdevelopment and backwardness. Ottoman elites and official authorities therefore proposed and implemented institutional measures in the form of forced labor, reformatories or deportation to reform the conditions of these groups, segregate them from the greater public and discipline them. In the modern period, along with the proposals that called for the removal of dogs, modernizing intellectuals and professionals proposed alternative plans to render non-human animals beneficial to human needs and the modern state's expectations.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Late Ottoman History, Environmental History, Animal Studies, Urban History, Ottoman Social History, History Of Mentalities
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Middle Eastern Studies
WoS Q Değeri
Q4
Scopus Q Değeri
Q2
Cilt
54
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4
