Large metropolises are everywhere caught in the contradictory logics of globalization and Localization. This book looks

Eds. Ayşe Öncü & Petra Weyland, İletişim Yayınları, 2005

Large metropolises are everywhere caught in the contradictory logics of globalization and Localization. This book looks at the ways in which a variety of contemporary discourses – of consumerism, İslam, human rights – are appropriated by local groups in the metropolis to voice new cultural alternatives.

The contributors to this volume offer original studies from cities as diverse as Singapore, Beirut, Cairo, Manila or İstanbul. They discuss how the constraints and opportunities generated by the penetration of global networks are translated by different groups of urban actors into practices which transform the physical as well as social and cultural spaces of these cities. They tackle the abstract notion of global culture, to discuss the interactions between the global, national and the local.

Organizational Sociology

Sosyal Bilimler Derneği Yayınları, Sevinç Matbaası, 1976

An introductory book on sociology of organizations.

History Takes Place: İstanbul

Hamburg: Jovis, 2016 (co-editor with Anna Hofman)

Reality and imagination become blurred in images of İstanbul. Breathtaking panoramas seem to open up views of the entire city, which appears as a whole that encompasses space and time. However, those who immerse themselves into the pulsating metropolis with its nearly 15 million inhabitants soon realize that Istanbul cannot be fully grasped or represented in its entirety. With every step there is a layering of traces of wide-ranging historical eras, which impacts on the present.

History takes Place: İstanbul seeks to open up a new perspective on İstanbul, not through narratives or typical images of East and West, but through a series of spontaneous shots. Contributions by young academics from various disciplines – history, cultural and social sciences, as well as geography, architecture, and urban planning – address contested histories and memories, experiences of home and exile, or of exclusion and resistance in the public sphere. The reader is invited to rethink the relationship between the “historical past” and the “ethnographic present” of the city and at the same time see how “history” is always in the making in İstanbul.

Space, Culture, Power: New Identities in Globalizing Cities

London: Zed, 1997 (co-editor with Petra Weyland, contributor)

Large metropolises are everywhere caught in the contradictory logics of globalization and Localization. This book looks at the ways in which a variety of contemporary discourses – of consumerism, İslam, human rights – are appropriated by local groups in the metropolis to voice new cultural alternatives.

The contributors to this volume offer original studies from cities as diverse as Singapore, Beirut, Cairo, Manila or İstanbul. They discuss how the constraints and opportunities generated by the penetration of global networks are translated by different groups of urban actors into practices which transform the physical as well as social and cultural spaces of these cities. They tackle the abstract notion of global culture, to discuss the interactions between the global, national and the local.

Developmentalism and Beyond: Society and Politics in Egypt & Turkey

Cairo: Cairo University Press/ New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 (co-editor with Saad-Eddin Ibrahim and Çağlar Keyder, contributor)

The cases of Egypt and Turkey invite comparisons because they display a broad range of common features, yet remain a study of contrasts. They share the common legacy of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire. As nation states, both were consolidated in the early decades of the twentieth century when the ethnic and political map of the region was being redrawn by regional rivalries. Today, they are the two most populous, oil-poor, labor-surplus economies of the region.

At the same time, Egypt and Turkey represent, within the region, two markedly different trajectories of political-cum-economic transformation. Both countries embarked upon grand development projects, but of different varieties. The contrast between Egypt’s “populist socialism” and Turkey’s “populist capitalism” elucidate the various ways these countries have encountered universal issues such as capital accumulation, agrarian transformation, and political legitimation.

This volume is a collaborative effort by twelve distinguished scholars from Egypt and Turkey, to juxtapose and compare the distinctive ways ‘politics’ has been interwoven with ‘economics’ in the two countries to shape trajectories of social change and political outcomes.

Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities

London: I.B. Tauris, 1993 (co-editor with Metin Heper and Heinz Kremer, contributor)

Turkey’s relations with the “West” is a well-traversed topic. This volume differs from previous work on three planes. It subscribes to the assumption that the West’s influence on Turkey has not been direct but that it has always gone through a filtering process; it thus explores the imaginaries of the West prevalent among critical groups in Turkey. Focusing on such ‘elite’ groups as bureaucrats, journalists, intellectuals, officers, businessmen or academics, the authors in this volume explore how the political identities of these groups have been shaped by various understandings of the West. Each chapter is written by a prominent scholar and focuses on how contemporary dilemmas of Turkish society are filtered through these multiple and sometimes contradictory political/cultural understandings of the “West”.