Ayşe Öncü
Ayşe Öncü (PhD Yale, 1971) is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology, currently affiliated with Sabancı University in Istanbul. She was among the founding members of the Sociology Department at Boğaziçi University, where she taught for more than 30 years and served in various administrative capacities. She joined Sabanci University in 2003, to coordinate the Cultural Studies Program. She has been an elected member of the Academy of Sciences in Turkey since 2013.
Ayşe Öncü’s research interests center on questions of space, culture and power in ‘globalizing’ cities of the South. Her work is situated in the intersection between social theory and cultural theory. She has explored the multiple links between visual media and the transformation of the public sphere in Turkey. She has written extensively on the transformations of urban cultures and spaces of İstanbul in recent decades. She has also been actively involved in developing/facilitating research networks between major capital cities of the region, including Amman, Cairo, Istanbul, and Beirut.
Ayşe Öncü’s research interests center on questions of space, culture and power in ‘globalizing’ cities of the South. Her work is situated in the intersection between social theory and cultural theory. She has explored the multiple links between visual media and the transformation of the public sphere in Turkey. She has written extensively on the transformations of urban cultures and spaces of İstanbul in recent decades. She has also been actively involved in developing/facilitating research networks between major capital cities of the region, including Amman, Cairo, Istanbul, and Beirut.
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The contributors to this volume offer original studies from cities as diverse as Singapore, Beirut, Cairo, Manila or İstanbul. They discuss how the constraints and opportunities generated by the penetration of global networks are translated by different groups of urban actors into practices which transform the physical as well as social and cultural spaces of these cities. They tackle the abstract notion of global culture, to discuss the interactions between the global, national and the local.
History takes Place: İstanbul seeks to open up a new perspective on İstanbul, not through narratives or typical images of East and West, but through a series of spontaneous shots. Contributions by young academics from various disciplines – history, cultural and social sciences, as well as geography, architecture, and urban planning – address contested histories and memories, experiences of home and exile, or of exclusion and resistance in the public sphere. The reader is invited to rethink the relationship between the “historical past” and the “ethnographic present” of the city and at the same time see how “history” is always in the making in İstanbul.
At the same time, Egypt and Turkey represent, within the region, two markedly different trajectories of political-cum-economic transformation. Both countries embarked upon grand development projects, but of different varieties. The contrast between Egypt’s “populist socialism” and Turkey’s “populist capitalism” elucidate the various ways these countries have encountered universal issues such as capital accumulation, agrarian transformation, and political legitimation.
This volume is a collaborative effort by twelve distinguished scholars from Egypt and Turkey, to juxtapose and compare the distinctive ways ‘politics’ has been interwoven with ‘economics’ in the two countries to shape trajectories of social change and political outcomes.