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Abstract
In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the "peaceful coexistence" of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted. Contributors discuss both historical and contemporary practices of coexistence within the context of ethno-national conflict and its aftermath.
"This book will be the seminal work on the theme of coexistence. The dissolution of coexistence, which is also a subject of this volume, is an easier subject to cover, but by understanding the terms of coexistence one is better placed to understand the crises and violence that destroyed them too... I cannot think of a better study on the micro-dynamics of difference." · Nicholas Doumanis, University of New South Wales, Australia
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Illustrations | 7 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 9 | ||
| Introduction: Everyday Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman Space | 11 | ||
| Part I — Landscapes of Coexistence and Conflict | 49 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Sharing Traditions of Land Use and Ownership: Considering the \"Ground\" for Coexistence and Conflict in Pre-modern Cyprus | 51 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Intersecting Religioscapes in Post-Ottoman Spaces: Trajectories of Change, Competition, and Sharing of Religious Spaces | 69 | ||
| Chapter 3 — Cosmopolitanism or Constitutive Violence? The Creation of \"Turkish\" Iraklio | 96 | ||
| Chapter 4 — Trade and Exchange in Nicosia's Shared Realm: Ermou Street in the 1940s and 1950s | 117 | ||
| Part II — Performing Coexistence and Difference | 137 | ||
| Chapter 5 — In Bed Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi's Alexandria Films | 139 | ||
| Chapter 6 — Memory, Conviviality, and Coexistence: Negotiating Class Differences in Burgazadası, Istanbul | 167 | ||
| Chapter 7 — \"If You Write This Tačno, It Will Be Točno!\": Language Ideologies and Linguistic Practices in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina | 190 | ||
| Part III — Negotiating Everyday Coexistence in the Shadow of Conflict | 215 | ||
| Chapter 8 — The Istanbul Armenians: Negotiating Coexistence | 217 | ||
| Chapter 9 — A Conflict of Spaces or of Recognition? Co-presence in Divided Jerusalem | 248 | ||
| Chapter 10 — Grounds for Sharing—Occasions for Conflict: An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Cohabitation and Antagonism | 268 | ||
| Index | 286 |