Protecting the city's interest: the Greek Orthodox and the conflict between municipal and<i>vilayet</i>authorities in İzmir (Smyrna) in the Second Constitutional Period

Kechriotis, Vangelis

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“…However, Eldem (2009) specifically excludes the middle classes, who often were neither particularly mobile nor involved in the different types of exchanges which characterised the ‘cosmopolitan’ interactions of either the elites or the underclass. While this may be partly borne out by the different professional trajectories of the different groups, it might also be the result of the emergence of a particular type of sociability and public sphere, namely, in taverns and pubs ( birahane ) or, for the high bourgeoisie, respectively, in modern hotels and clubs (Kechriotis, 2009). What Eldem seems to ignore is that much of the (male) population of many Ottoman towns enjoyed other types of sociability which formed an important aspect of ensuring social integration.…”

Section: ‘Conviviality’ and The Ottoman Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the course of the 19th century, a system of city councils was introduced that initially incorporated representatives of quarters, religious communities and guilds, that is, the alliance groups that are of interest here. These different forms of urban representation, where urban politics were negotiated between different sectors of the population and Ottoman representatives, have received some scholarly attention (Ilbert, 1996; Kechriotis, 2009). The changes introduced in the context of the Tanzimat reforms, as well as colonial influence, altered the nature of local representation to the extent that in some cities Ottoman-installed councils took over many of the functions exercised earlier by the alliance groups.…”

Section: Fields Of Organised Convivial Interaction In the Ottoman Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Conviviality’? Some conceptual considerations concerning the late Ottoman Empire

Freitag

2013

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In this article, I argue that the concept of 'conviviality', at least in a non-elitist understanding, allows us to pay closer attention to the conditions under which people of different ethnic, linguistic, religious and national backgrounds and of all social strata managed to live together peacefully in the late Ottoman Empire. This phenomenon, which can be observed in port cities in particular, has often been discussed under the term of 'Ottoman cosmopolitanism'. The latter term, both in its wider usage and in the historiography linked to the Ottoman Empire, has become heavily laden with moral prescripts often originating in particular Western, liberal ideas. I will argue here that 'cosmopolitanism' and 'conviviality' can be seen as complementing each other, the former tendentially (albeit not exclusively) focussing more on elite interactions and emphasising the interactions of people of different ethnic and religious origin, the latter opening a window onto the quotidian practices of everyday interactions by people regardless of their origin. Evidently, there are large areas of overlap between both concepts; nevertheless, it might be useful to separate them heuristically.

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Section: ‘Conviviality’ and The Ottoman Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fields Of Organised Convivial Interaction In the Ottoman Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Conviviality’? Some conceptual considerations concerning the late Ottoman Empire

Freitag

2013

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Economic Nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress Revisited: The Case of the Society for the Ottoman Navy

Gökatalay

2020

Nationalities Papers

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The Ottoman-Turkish historiography has been largely concerned with the economic nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which consisted of four doctrines: elimination of foreign dominance on the Ottoman economy, removal of non-Muslims from the economic sphere, creation of a Turkish/Muslim bourgeoisie, and rapid industrialization. Through its focus on the economic activities of the Society for the Ottoman Navy, a CUP-affiliated charitable organization with enormous economic power, the present study investigates how the economic policies of the period can be regarded as a practice of economic nationalism. Based on archival material and in dialogue with secondary sources, this article argues that although the Unionist leadership and intelligentsia employed the language of economic nationalism, the operation of the economy in practice was considerably different from its rhetoric. War conditions, the lack of indigenous capital accumulation, and relations of the Ottoman Empire with foreign powers heavily shaped the implementation of the economic nationalism of the CUP.

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Fear and Loathing in “Gavur” Izmir: Emotions in Early Republican Memories of the Greek Occupation (1919–22)

Morack

2017

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Based on a series of recollections published between January and April 1926 in the Izmir-based daily newspaperAhenk(Harmony), this article explores how individual Muslim Turks remembered their emotional responses to the Greek occupation of that city (May 1919–September 1922). Analyzing these recollections, it considers why certain events were remembered while others were almost completely left out. By studying how Muslim Turks described their feelings towards the occupying forces, local non-Muslims, and the eventually victorious Turkish army, the article makes an initial contribution to the history of emotions in early republican Turkey. I argue that the composition and consumption of memories were avenues for connecting emotionally to the Turkish nationalist project. This finding challenges the widespread notion that the early republican period was characterized by collective amnesia of the immediate past, and contributes to the growing body of scholarship on popular participation in early republican nationalism.

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Protecting the city's interest: the Greek Orthodox and the conflict between municipal andvilayetauthorities in İzmir (Smyrna) in the Second Constitutional Period

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Conviviality’? Some conceptual considerations concerning the late Ottoman Empire

‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Conviviality’? Some conceptual considerations concerning the late Ottoman Empire

Economic Nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress Revisited: The Case of the Society for the Ottoman Navy

Fear and Loathing in “Gavur” Izmir: Emotions in Early Republican Memories of the Greek Occupation (1919–22)

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