Diaspora of the City Stories of Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Örs, İlay Romain (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
• Θέματα: Emigration and immigration.; Ethnology.; Sociology, Urban.; Cities and towns-History.; Diaspora.; Cultural Anthropology.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urban History.

As the former capital of two great empires-Eastern Roman and Ottoman-Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism. The Greek-speaking Christian Orthodox community (Rum Polites) is among the oldest in the urban society, yet their leading status duri...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Basics and Beginnings
• 2. Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Impressions from Everyday Life in Athens
• 3. Exclusive Diversity and the Ambiguity of Being Out of Place
• 4. Resolutionary Recollections: Event, Memory, and Sharing the Suffering
• 5. Capital of Memory: Cosmopolitanist Nostalgia in Istanbul
• 6. Epilogue: An Attempt to Update: Prospects for the Community, the City, and Cosmopolitanism.