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- ISBN 9781642597721
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Haymarket Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign's duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, Feeding Istanbul makes a compelling case for situating food politics, and politics of urban provisioning in particular, at the centre of our conceptualisation of the relationship between the sovereign and the political community.
Candan Türkkan is Assistant Professor of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts at Ozyegin University. In addition to her academic publications on urban provisioning, alternative food networks and food banks in Turkey, she writes regularly for a general audience on the politics of food in Turkey and beyond.
