Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City

About

NORA FISHER-ONAR is an assistant professor of global politics at Coastal Carolina University in Conway South Carolina; research associate of the Centre for International Studies of Oxford University United Kingdom; and a non-residential fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. SUSAN C. PEARCE is an associate professor of sociology at East Carolina University in Greenville North Carolina. She is the coauthor and coeditor of several books including Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience.  E. FUAT KEYMAN is a professor of international relations at Sabanci University in Istanbul Turkey. Keyman has published extensively in English and Turkish including Remaking Turkey: Globalization Alternative Modernities and Democracies. ---- Contributors:Feyzi Baban is a professor of Political Studies and International Development at Trent University. His research interests include international relations theory critical theory cosmopolitanism citizenship studies Turkish politics and Turkey-EU relations. His recent publications include: Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Redefining the Idea of Europe through Postcoloniality in Postcolonial Transitions in Europe. ed. by Sandra Ponzanesi and Gianmaria Colpani (2016); Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Pathways to Precarity Differential Inclusion and Negotiated Citizenship Rights Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies with Kim Rygiel and Suzan Ilcan; Secular Spaces and Religious Representations: reading the Headscarf Debate in Turkey as Citizenship Politics Citizenship Studies; Snapshots from the Margins: Transgressive Cosmopolitanisms in Europe with Kim Rygiel European Journal of Social Theory 118 2014; and Cosmopolitan Europe: Border Crossings and Transnationalism in Europe Global Society February 2013.Anna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NC State University. She received her MA from Columbia University (1995) and PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara (2004) with a focus on South Asian Islam. Her book Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India (Oxford University Press 2010) is a study of a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab and the shared sacred and civic spaces in that community. Bigelow speaks and writes frequently on religious extremism religion and conflict and the role of Islam in the world today. Her current research involves further study of contested yet shared sacred sites in South Asia and the Middle East. SheKristen Sarah Biehl is an anthropologist specialized in migration research in Turkey. For the past decade she has been involved in both academic and policy research on migration and asylum in Turkey working with a number of different migrant and refugee communities NGOs and public institutions. Such work includes the EUs comprehensive needs assessment on the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Her research interests range from exploring the everyday lived experiences of asylum seekers in Turkey to understanding how urban society and space are transformed through migration and diversification processes. Kristen is currently completing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research entailed ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbuls Kumkapi district via which she examines how differences are socially and spatially experienced which she theorizes through the notion of dwelling. Most recently Kristen joined Istanbul Policy Center of Sabanci University as a Mercator-IPC Fellow (20162017).Nora Fisher-Onar is Assistant Professor in Global Politics at Coastal Carolina University. She also serves as research associate of the Centre for International Studies (CIS) at Oxford University and as a non-residential fellow of the German Marshall Fund (GMF). Her research interests include IR and social theory comparative area studies political ideologies gender history/memory and foreign policy analysis. She received her doctorate from Oxford and holds masters and undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins (SAIS) and Georgetown universities respectively. She lived in Istanbul for over a decade and speaks five languages including fluent Turkish. Fisher-Onar has published extensively in academic journals like Theory and Society Womens Studies International Forum and Conflict and Cooperation. She also regularly speaks at policy fora like the GMF Brookings Institution and Carnegie Endowment and writes for platforms like Foreign Affairs the Guardian and OpenDemocracy.E. Fuat Keyman is professor of International Relations at Sabanc University. He is also the director of Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) at Sabanc University. He works on democratization globalization international relations civil society Turkish politics and foreign policy and Turkey-EU relations. Keyman is a member of the Turkish Science academy as well as of respected international academic and journal boards. He served as a member of the Wise People Commission as part of the peace process with the Kurdish movement. Keymans many publications in English and Turkish include 10 edited and single-authored books such as: Democracy Identity and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Hegemony Through Transformation (Palgrave Macmillan February 2014 with ebnem Gümücü); Symbiotic Antagonisms: Contending Discourses of Nationalism in Turkey (University of Utah Pres 2011 with Aye Kadolu); and Remaking Turkey: Globalization Alternative Modernities and Democracies (Lanham 2008).Çalar Keyder is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. Author of State and Class in Turkey and editor of Istanbul: Between the local and the global most of his work has been on Turkey: historical sociology and political economy of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey urbanization and globalization of Istanbul and agrarian transformations in Anatolia. Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government chair of the Department of Government and former faculty chair of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (2014) which was awarded the French Prix de Voyage Urbain Le Figaro-Peninsula Paris; Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (2011) which received the National Jewish Book Award; The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (2008); and other books.Amy Mills (M.A. Middle East Studies; Ph.D. Geography University of Texas at Austin) is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of South Carolina. Her research engages with conversations in critical human geography urban studies and interdisciplinary Middle Eastern studies. Her first book Streets of Memory: Landscape Tolerance and National Identity in Istanbul (University of Georgia Press 2010) explored cultural memories of Istanbuls non-Muslim minority pasts. Dr. Millss current research examines the cultural geopolitics of urbanism in Istanbul after World War I. Her work has been published in venues including Comparative Studies of South Africa Asia and the Middle East; Cultural Geographies; the International Journal of Middle East Studies; and Gender Place and Culture. Dr. Mills serves on the international advisory boards of fe dergisi/fe journal the Turkish Journal of Human Geography and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. She has held leadership positions in the Turkish Studies Association and in the Association of American Geographers and supports interdisciplinary scholarship in Geography and Middle East studies.lay Romain Örs is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and a faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University. She completed her PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University following her masters studies at University College London and her two BA degrees in Sociology and Political Science at Boaziçi University Istanbul. A Turkish citizen born in Istanbul Ors is competent in English German and Modern Greek. She recently revised her dissertation fieldwork on the Rum Polites into a book to be published by Palgrave Macmillan under the title Diaspora of the City: Stories of Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens. Her further research and publications are concentrated on topics including migration mobility minorities political movements and urban studies in Greece Turkey and the Mediterranean.Hande Paker a political sociologist works on civil society state the transformation of citizenship and political ecology. She has carried out research and published on modes of civil society-state relations politics of the environment at the local-global nexus and grounded cosmopolitan citizenship with a particular focus on environmental struggles and womens rights. Her articles have appeared in Environmental Politics Theory and Society and Middle Eastern Studies. Her latest research as a 2015/16 Mercator-IPC Fellow focuses on local and transnational environmental spaces of action to analyze how environmental civil society actors engage the issue of climate change to mobilize publics. Paker holds a PhD and an MA from McGill University and a BA from Boaziçi University. She is based at the Faculty of Economics Administrative and Social Sciences at Bahçeehir University.Susan C. Pearce Pearce is Associate Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University in North Carolina United States. She conducts research on the cultural contexts of politics particularly concerning ethnicity migration gender and social movements. She is co-author of the monograph Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience (2011) with Elizabeth Clifford and Reena Tandon; and co-editor of Reformulations: Markets Policy and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe (2000) with Slawomir Kapralski; and co-editor of Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe (2000) with Eugenia Sojka. Her PhD in Sociology is from the New School for Social Research in New York. She has also served on the sociology faculties of Gettysburg College West Virginia University University of Gdask (Poland) and Central European University (Poland).Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck University of London Fellow of Birkbeck College Research Associate of the London Middle East Institute and Professorial Research Associate of the Food Studies Centre both at SOAS. He has held visiting positions in Cairo Istanbul Beirut Aix-en-Provence Paris Berkley CA and NYU written and lectured widely on themes of religion culture law and politics in the Middle East with particular attention to Egypt Iran Iraq and Turkey. His other work is on food history and culture. Zubaidas books include Islam the People and the State: Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East (3rd edition 2009; translated in Arabic Hebrew Italian and Turkish); A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (edited with R Tapper 2nd edition 2000; translated in Arabic and Turkish); Law and Power in the Islamic World (2003; translated in Arabic Danish and Turkish); Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East (2011); and the forthcoming book: Food Politics and Society (with A Colas J Edwards and J Levi) California UP 2017.