Streets of Memory By Amy Mills 9780820335735 (Hardback)

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Human geography

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University of georgia press

Streets of Memory : University of Georgia Press : 9780820335735 : 0820335738 : 15 Jun 2010 : 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 place that once was?but no longer is?ethnically and religiously diverse? ?Turkification? drove out most of Kuzguncuk's minority Greeks, Armenians, and Jews in the mid-twentieth century, but they left behind potent vestiges of their presence in the cityscape. Mills analyzes these places in a street-by-street ethnographic tour. She looks at how memory is conveyed and contested in Kuzguncuk's built environment, whether through the popular television programs filmed on location there or in the cross-class alliance that sprung up to advocate the preservation of an old market garden. Overall, she finds that the neighborhood's landscape not only connotes feelings of ?belonging and familiarity? connected to a ?narrative

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