The making of a national city: From Mezre to Elaziğ

Name: The making of a national city: From Mezre to Elaziğ
Author: Sipahi, Ali

İsim	The making of a national city: From Mezre to Elaziğ
Yazar	Sipahi, Ali
Basım Tarihi:	2021
Basım Yeri	- Taylor & Francis
Tür	Kitap
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	978-0-429-26403-0
Kayıt Numarası	d4e5ac48-4348-4140-807d-59c8fc94f667
Lokasyon	Humanities and Social Sciences
Tarih	2021
Örnek Metin	This chapter tells the story of an imperial town’s transformation into a national city. It will start with the emergence of Mezre as a government suburb in proximity to Harput in the nineteenth century. With its Armenian majority, Mezre was the product of a unique combination of bourgeois suburbanization with military authority. Then, the nationalization of the town in the early twentieth century is laid out, by visiting key events in the life of the town, like the Armenian deportations, the war of independence, the Sheikh Said Rebellion and Operation Dersim. Last, the chapter uncovers the process of modernizing and ideologizing of the urban space: The symbolic reconstruction of the town centre in the 1930s will be followed by the abandonment in the 1940s, nostalgia for the old town in the 1950s and creative destruction for tourism in the 1960s. Conceptually, the chapter will challenge the top-down perspective in the existing literature and demonstrate the ebb and flow in the process of nationalization and modernization. Extensively using local sources, it will show the mostly reluctant attitude of the local elite and the largely failed attempts of national homogenization.

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The making of a national city: From Mezre to Elaziğ

Yazar Sipahi, Ali

Basım Tarihi 2021

Basım Yeri - Taylor & Francis

Tür Kitap

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 978-0-429-26403-0

Kayıt Numarası d4e5ac48-4348-4140-807d-59c8fc94f667

Lokasyon Humanities and Social Sciences

Tarih 2021

Örnek Metin This chapter tells the story of an imperial town’s transformation into a national city. It will start with the emergence of Mezre as a government suburb in proximity to Harput in the nineteenth century. With its Armenian majority, Mezre was the product of a unique combination of bourgeois suburbanization with military authority. Then, the nationalization of the town in the early twentieth century is laid out, by visiting key events in the life of the town, like the Armenian deportations, the war of independence, the Sheikh Said Rebellion and Operation Dersim. Last, the chapter uncovers the process of modernizing and ideologizing of the urban space: The symbolic reconstruction of the town centre in the 1930s will be followed by the abandonment in the 1940s, nostalgia for the old town in the 1950s and creative destruction for tourism in the 1960s. Conceptually, the chapter will challenge the top-down perspective in the existing literature and demonstrate the ebb and flow in the process of nationalization and modernization. Extensively using local sources, it will show the mostly reluctant attitude of the local elite and the largely failed attempts of national homogenization.