Tanzimat Reforms and Urban Transformations in Ottoman Port-Cities

Samourkasidou, Elena; Kalergis, Dimitris

doi:10.17265/2159-5526/2021.06.003

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“…A focus on the synergistic relations, as well as the disconnections, between the bazaar and its many locations (Samourkasidou and Kalergis 2021) can contribute to an exploration of how the logic informing those locations and their relations have changed over time. In this way, paying particular attention to the Grand Bazaar's carpet trade, this chapter extends one of the threads in Chapter 5 focusing on the transition from one locating logic to another, and the traces and layers that this process leaves in the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections of the Grand Bazaar.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’ The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

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Section: Patricia Scalcomentioning

confidence: 99%

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

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Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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“…The Tanzimat Reforms were crucial to the development and organization of the Empire's millet (Samourkasidou & Kalergis, 2021). The main principles of the two Decrees, Ηatt-i Serif in 1839 and Ηatti Ηumayun in 1856, were the strengthening of equality for all citizens under the law and their religious tolerance, Muslims and non-Muslims.…”

Section: Multiculturalism and Ottoman Citiesmentioning

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“…Thus, during the period from the middle of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century, several independent states emerged within it. Ottomanism, the ideology that followed the Tanzimat reform movement (Samourkasidou & Kalergis, 2021), can be seen as an attempt to reconcile the diverged interests of the individual people of the Empire within a parliamentary system (Guven, 2006).…”

Section: Istanbulmentioning

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Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage: Compatible or Conflicting Concept?

Samourkasidou

Kalergis²

2022

EJARCH

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Cultural heritage embodies every aspect of culture from the past, which has been incorporated into current society. Collective urban identity includes all those individual components of collective memory that leave their spatial imprint on the city. The paper aims to research the transition of cities from the multicultural Ottoman Empire to the formation of nation-states and the management of cultural heritage and urban physiognomy by each of them. Moreover, the preservation of the collective memory and identity of cities is a decisive factor in their evolutionary course. The methodology followed includes the comparative analysis of 5 representative port-cities of the Ottoman Empire: Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Izmir, Beirut and Alexandria, where the element of cosmopolitanism is vivid. The searching period concerns the time just before its dissolution and the emergence of nation-states. The paper concludes that the rise of nationalism and the conflicts between states that will result from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire will irreversibly alter the population composition of these cities, which will evolve violently from multi-ethnic Ottoman cities to mono-ethnic cities in the 20th century. The abrupt emergence of nation-states resulted in the marginalization of key aspects of the cities' heritage in an attempt to create and consolidate new national narratives. This resulted in the dissolution of urban continuity in cities which affected not only the identity and self-definition of cities in global urban networks but also their development process and dynamics, depriving them of an important asset of differentiation and specialization. The lack of awareness of the importance of the cultural heritage of cities is also demonstrated by the fact that the Ottoman past should be a mere parenthesis in the history and landscape of them and is therefore eliminated from it.

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“…Higher education constitutes an important pathway for the for economic, social, and institutional buildout of the developing and developed countries (Findler et al, 2019;Abelha et al, 2020). Since the 1960s, the countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMCs) (consisting of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia) have been making efforts to reform their education systems (Samourkasidou and Kalergis, 2021;Neira et al, 2023). Despite many positive results, these countries are still struggling to join the era of the technological revolution, a move that would allow them to improve their disadvantageous position in international trade, as well as to adequately develop and use their human resources 1 (Kerras et al, 2020;Pérez-Castro et al, 2021).…”

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Regional cooperation in higher education and research in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries

Huraj Rošteková,

Masár

2023

Terra Econ.

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Higher education and research represent the driving forces for economic and institutional change in both developed and developing countries all around the world. The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMCs) are not an exception from this case as they are making notable efforts to enhance the institutional reform of higher education. Despite many positive results, these countries have still failed to join the era of the technological revolution, which would allow them to correct their disadvantageous position in international trade, as well as to adequately develop and use human resources. Our paper focuses on the importance of regional cooperation in higher education and research for economic, social, and institutional development in the SEMCs. We demonstrate that universities in developing countries face greater challenges than their counterparts in the developed countries. We focus on assessing the European Union's (EU) efforts and contribution to the Euro-Mediterranean integration and institutional change since the future development of the Mediterranean countries is linked to the European integration processes. Finally, the paper outlines recent trends in the interconnection between regional integration in the EU and the Mediterranean. Our results might be of special interest for the policymakers and academics in the field of higher education and regional economics.

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Tanzimat Reforms and Urban Transformations in Ottoman Port-Cities

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage: Compatible or Conflicting Concept?

Regional cooperation in higher education and research in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries

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