Cultural Politics and Conquest Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-301
Author(s):  
Asu Aksoy ◽  
Kevin Robins
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Cruise Ship ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Central State ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Distinctive Aspect ◽  
The City

Abstract In this article, the authors explore recent developments in urban regeneration in Istanbul, and specifically in the important historic district of Beyoğlu. In one respect, these developments, which are linked to the promotion of cruise ship tourism, are on the same predictable lines as neoliberal projects in other cities across the world. Significantly, in the Istanbul context, local agency is being sidelined, and projects are being financed and managed through the intervention of the central state. In this Turkish version of urban transformation, however, there is a locally distinctive aspect that merits attention. Istanbul is a city that was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, and the discourse of conquest has remained significant within the urban imaginary. And at the present time, it is being mobilized by the state and its cultural ministry, in the cause of creating a new urban image conforming to its Islamist principles. The key project involves the establishment of what is called the Beyoğlu Cultural Route, which is essentially a touristic itinerary. The authors argue that the state's initiatives, and the route project in particular, involve an erasure—a conquest—of Beyoğlu's legacy of cosmopolitan values. This discussion explores what has been of civic and cultural value in the lifeworld of Beyoğlu, past and present. Resistance to the state's control of resources and institutions, and to its conquest ideology, needs to be grounded in civic principles open to diversity and difference in the city.

scholarly journals A sustainable urban regeneration project to protect biodiversity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Tarsitano ◽  
Alba Giannoccaro Rosa ◽  
Cecilia Posca ◽  
Giovanni Petruzzi ◽  
Michele Mundo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
The City

AbstractThe sustainable urban redevelopment project to protect biodiversity was developed to regenerate the external spaces of an ancient rural farmhouse, Villa Framarino, in the regional Natural Park of Lama Balice, a shallow erosive furrow (lama) rich in biodiversity, between two suburbs of the city of Bari (Apulia, Italy) and close to the city airport. This work includes a complex system of activities aimed not only at a spatial revaluation, necessary to relaunch the urban image, but it is accompanied by interventions of a cultural, social, economic, environmental and landscape nature, aimed at increasing the quality of life, in compliance with the principles of sustainability and social participation. One of the means to revitalize a territory subject to redevelopment is the planning of events and activities of socio-cultural value that involve the population to revive the sense of belonging to the territory and the community and at the same time to protect the biodiversity of the urban park of the protected natural area.

scholarly journals Foreign Delegations in Dnipropetrovsk City and Dnipropetrovska Oblast in 1945–1959

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Olga Kakovkina
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Presence ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The City

The purpose of the article is to figure out the features of a foreign presence in the city and the region during 1945–1959, its intensity and content on the example of the visit of foreign delegations – from the end of the World War II, as a result of which the political map of Europe and the world, the content of international relations have changed, to the assignment to Dnipropetrovsk the status of a conditionally closed city in August 1959, which led to the prohibition of its visit by foreigners until 1987.Research methods: historical-chronological, comparative.Main results: One of the aspects of foreign presence in the region is revealed on the example of target groups, which, as a rule, came at the invitation of public organizations, as well as certain departments. Some features of visiting the region by foreign delegations, quantitative indicators, the composition of individual groups, residence programs, service problems were identified. It was found that a certain limit in visiting foreigners to the region, as well as in the whole USSR, was 1953, when, as a result of the liberalization of the foreign policy of the Soviet leadership, the foreign presence in the region became more massive and public. Dnipropetrovsk and the surrounding areas, along with Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, were one of the visiting points. The purpose of its visits was to familiarize with the Soviet reality for the formation of a certain image of the USSR, to demonstrate the "advantages" of the Soviet model, and, therefore caused a significant ideological load of programs and strict control by the party bodies. Since the mid-1950s, with the intensive development of international economic relations in the region, primarily in heavy industry, the number of delegations with production targets had been growing. The economic component of relations dominated the tourism sector, which almost did not cover the Dnipropetrovsk region, given the formation of closed industries. In conclusion, it was noted that already at the stage of late Stalinism, the city and region were a significant part of the international presentation of the USSR and Ukraine. However, the stay of foreign groups revealed significant problems in their service due to material difficulties, lack of experience and personnel, and the specifics of organizing admissions under conditions of totalitarian state.Practical significance: the article recommended for the practice of teaching and research regional and urban history.Originality: sources that were first introduced to scientific circulation were used – the Central State Archive of the Public Organizations of Ukraine, the State Archive of the Dnipropetrovsk Region (oblastʼ) and regional periodicals of the period.Scientific novelty: the issue of the presence of foreign delegations in the Dnipropetrovsk region during 1945–1959 was considered, the problem of the place of Dnipropetrovsk region, Dnipropetrovsk in the system of international relations of Ukraine of the totalitarian period was determined.Article type: explanation.

scholarly journals Romani People and the ‘Right to the City’: Gentrification in Fevzipasa, Canakkale, Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Recep Volkan Öner ◽  
A. Aslı Şimşek
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Canakkale city centre has been home for many different ethnicities from the past to our present day. In time, the city centre was also defined as a protected area due to its historical and cultural value. However, major infrastructure, urban renewal, and transformation projects have emerged in the agendas of both public authorities and the private sector. Similar to the rest of the world, in Turkey, Romani people are amongst the first groups to face the discriminating and excluding effects of such projects. This study aims to explore the relationship between gentrification and the violation of Romani people’s ‘right to the city’ with a focus on the Romani neighbourhood of Fevzipasa, Canakkale. 

scholarly journals Design of Batak Toba Art and Culture Museum Center In The City of Medan By Applying Neovernacular Architecture Themes.

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-171
Author(s):  
Julius Putra Simbolon ◽  
Nelson Siahaan
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The City

Medan City is a city that has a variety of cultures and traditions. This diversity can give color to the world of tourism, especially in the city of Medan. One of the customs and cultures in the city of Medan is the Batak Toba, a native of the North Sumatera province. Tourism with high cultural value will make a positive impact on visitors who come to study and recreate in the tourism area, especially this museum. The design involves two different aspects where the design must be able to unite the Vernacular aspects that exist in the existing site as well as the modern touch of Neovernacular Architecture. The diversity of the arts and culture of Batak Toba Culture increasingly supports the achievement of space inside and outside the museum. It attracts visitors to calm the mind, relax, and learn many things about Batak Toba Arts and Culture. The existence of the Batak Toba Arts and Culture Museum is expected to increase the number of local and foreign tourists visiting the area to find out and perverse the Batak Toba culture

scholarly journals Mainstream digitale e altre immagini urbane. Una ricerca empirica nel sito UNESCO di Palermo

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuela Caravello
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The research deepens the role of new technologies in the construction of geographical imaginaries investigating the dimension of the offer related to the cultural heritage of the city of Palermo. The study was conducted using qualitative methods and provided for the application of two research techniques: participant observation and semi-structured interviews. By interpreting the results produced, the contribution aims to highlight the predominance of an urban image, linked to the UNESCO inclusion of the site in the World Heritage List, which is conveyed through new technologies. Developing a reflection on the alternative capacity of new media to dislocate and challenge shared images, the study will also examine the role of technologies in the production of imaginative counter-geographies.

Neoliberalising Humanity: Culture and Popular Participation in the Case of the Street Market of Caruaru, Brazil

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Adilson Silva Ferraz
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Current Structure ◽  
Site Change ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The street fair of Caruaru is one of the most important ones in the world, in terms of culture, extent and commerce. In 2006 received the title of “imaterial cultural brasilian heritage” by Brazil’s Ministry of Culture. The economy of the region relies hardly on its trading. In 2014, the city mayor initiated polemically the process of change of its site. The project includes modify significantly the current structure, turning it into a Shopping Mall. The main goal is to increase profits even if it means the loss of their cultural value. The majority of the merchants and population is against this change, but until now the forces of the market has performed stronger than popular opinion. So that this research aims to verify the practice of democratic mechanisms of popular participation as resistance to the liberal policies in the case of the street fair of Caruaru site change. This research uses mainly the works of David Harvey and Franz Hinkelamert as Theoretical Framework. The methodology includes survey and interviews with traders, politicians, entrepreneurs, mayor and people's representatives.

The City as World-Place: Transterritorial Flows and Territorial Order in a Nuremberg Neighbourhood

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1545-1563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Berndt ◽  
Marc Boeckler
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Engineering Company ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Ordering ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

Approaching struggles for political representation through a perspective of ‘methodological transterritorialism’, we seek to make sense of recent developments evolving around a territorialised urban neighbourhood. Werderau, a garden suburb founded by a mechanical engineering company at the beginning of the 20th century, enjoyed relative protection from globalising frictions and struggles until the ‘world-in-motion’ suddenly penetrated the community a few years ago. We begin by charting the production of the bounded settlement as a site of alternate social ordering at a time of hyper-industrialisation and its imaginary role as a territorial heterotopia, symbolising order in a seemingly chaotic urban world. Turning to the owner's decision to sell the neighbourhood in 1998, we then argue that long-term inhabitants discursively frame the events following the decision as ‘transterritorial pollution’ of their bounded community, reflected in the commodification of their neighbourhood and in an ‘invasion’ of non-German home-owners. After discussing how longer term residents attempt to restabilise their identities by taking up a xenophobic discourse, we conclude by criticising policymakers for responding solely in a territorial logic and for one-sidedly taking up the discourse advanced by long-term residents. Instead, we advance a utopian vision of the city as a worldly site where people live under conditions of ‘transcultural Gleich-Gültigkeit’ in the double meaning of the German term: understood as being ‘indifferent’ towards the proximate other as well as referring to equality and equal rights.

ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN IDENTITY AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION IMPLEMENTATIONS IN HISTORICAL PROCESS: The Case of Isparta

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şefika Gülin Beyhan ◽  
Ülkü Çelebi Gürkan
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Urban identity is formed by the entire values and characteristics of a city. Urban transformation is the strategies and activities for maintaining environmental quality and life balance. The concepts of urban identity and urban transformation, which have been quite popular in Turkey recently, are the grounds of this study. The socio-cultural and economic conditions, which have changed as a result of globalization experienced all over the world, make it compulsory to re-shape cities, so urban identity concept has gradually become more important. The aim of this study is to reveal disidentification in Turkey caused by urban transformation implementations, particularly via the example of Isparta. As Isparta is a typical Anatolian city developed after the proclamation of the Republic, it was considered worthy of analysis. At the end of the study, It was observed that Isparta had developed in terms of planning until 1960s. It was concluded that turning points had occurred in urban transformation between the years 1960-1980 and after 1980, these turning points spoiled urban identity, and therefore, the city has developed and globalized without any identity since then.

scholarly journals Re-branding Colombia through Urban Transformation and Rural Regional Marketing

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Norberto Muñiz Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Territorial Change

Colombia is now projecting a new, positive image to the world after over­coming a past characterised by politically inspired guerrilla warfare and violent conflict with narco-trafficking cartels which had ravaged the country for decades. Even before the country’s transformation, other intermediate place institutions – cities and regions – had already taken significant steps towards territorial change and marketing. This paper outlines the processes involved in urban and social transformation in the city of Medellín and in the marketing of the coffee region, as illustrative cases of city re-brand­ing and regional branding, respectively.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Implications of Urban Spatial Transformation: A Access of Mulund, Mumbai

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11S) ◽  
pp. 261-266
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian City ◽  
Spatial Entities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

As the world is getting more and more urban, the impacts of the forces of urbanization are growing more and more prolific day by day. The urban age has brought about a significant amount of transformations to spatial entities across the world. Gone are the days when cities and suburbs stood as distinctly separate entities. Today, it is difficult to say where the city ends and the suburbs begin. Both cities and suburbs today stand as a part of the ‘urban continuum’ that sprawl across many miles covering areas that were once deemed as rural. Under the impact of the forces of urbanization, the global south is transforming like never before. The Indian city of Mumbai presents a conspicuous demonstration of urban transformation where following the saturation of the city’s core the suburbs have emerged as the drivers of growth. Needless to say, Suburban Mumbai is transforming at a drastic pace. At present a particular suburb, namely, Mulund has surfaced at the forefront of this spatial transformation. Thus, an attempt is being made in this paper to analyze the urban spatial transformation of Mulund and to comprehend the socio-economic implications of this transformation. The main purpose of this study is to contribute towards achieving a greater understanding of the changing character of urban space in the suburban arena of Mumbai. The methodology of the study is based on a mixed-method approach wherein both qualitative and quantitative data of primary and secondary nature are used to draw the analysis. The findings of the study reveal the manner in which urban spatial transformation has rendered the suburb a renewed socioeconomic identity. It dwells on both positive as well as negative implications of the emerging socio-economic characteristics of the suburb

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