Orienting Istanbul : cultural capital of Europe? / edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, and Ipek Türeli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Deniz Göktürk, İpek Türeli and Levent Soysal -- Part 1: Paths to Globalization -- 1. Istanbul into the Twenty-First Century / Çağlar Keyder -- 2. The Soul of a City: Hüzün, Keyif, Longing / Engin Işın -- Part 2: Heritage and Regeneration Debates -- 3. Challenging the Neoliberal Urban Regime: Regeneration and Resistance in Başıbüyük and Tarlabaşı / Özlem Ünsal and Tuna Kuyucu -- 4. Contestations over a Living Heritage Site: The Case of Büyük Valide Han / Ayşegül Baykan, Zerrin İren Boynudelik, Belkıs Uluoğlu and Burak Sevingen -- 5. Practices of Neo-Ottomanism: Making Space and Place Virtuous in Istanbul / Jeremy F. Walton -- 6. Modelling Citizenship in Turkey{u2019}s Miniature Park / İpek Türeli -- Part 3: The Mediatized City -- 7. The Spectator in the Making: Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul 1896-1928 / Nezih Erdoğan -- 8. Istanbul through Migrants{u2019} Eyes / İpek Türeli -- 9. Istanbul Convertible: A Magic Carpet Ride through Genres / Deniz Bayrakdar and Elif Akçalı -- 10. Projecting Polyphony: Moving Images, Travelling Sounds/ Deniz Göktürk -- Part 4: Art in the City -- 11. Optimism Reconsidered: Curator Hou Hanru interviewed by / Nilgün Bayraktar -- 12. Art in Istanbul: Contemporary Spectacles and History Revisited / Jale Erzen -- 13. The Politics of Urban Arts Events: A Comparison of Istanbul and Berlin / Banu Karaca -- Part 5: A European Capital? -- 14. The European Capital of Culture Programme and Istanbul 2010 / Carola Hein -- 15. Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture: Towards a Participatory Culture? / Oğuz Öner -- 16. Counting as European: Jews and the Politics of Presence in Istanbul / Marcy Brink-Danan -- 17. Future(s) of the City / Levent Soysal -- 18. Epilogue: Cultural Politics in the Kaleidoscope / Michael Herzfeld

Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century.