Down and out on the quays of İzmir: ‘European’ musicians, innkeepers, and prostitutes in the Ottoman port-cities

Fuhrmann, Malte

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“…Edhem Eldem (2009) has identified the often highly mobile groups of prostitutes, petty criminals and barkeepers, usually classified in police records as undesirables, as carriers of cosmopolitanism, here taken to mean the free interaction of people of different backgrounds in a convivial atmosphere (cf. Dumont, 2004; Fuhrmann, 2009). 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.…”

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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

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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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“…11 Malte Fuhrmann has addressed the social life of inhabitants on the quay of Izmir. 12 Onur İnal has studied the role of the Anatolian hinterland for the emergence of Izmir as gateway port. 13 Several researchers have also documented the history of key trader families and their residences in Izmir.…”

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Space, Representation, and Practice in the Formation of Izmir during the Long Nineteenth Century

Tanis¹,

Hein²

2020

Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World

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Ottoman Slavery and Abolition in the Nineteenth Century

Ferguson¹,

Toledano²

2017

The Cambridge World History of Slavery

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Down and out on the quays of İzmir: ‘European’ musicians, innkeepers, and prostitutes in the Ottoman port-cities

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

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

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

Space, Representation, and Practice in the Formation of Izmir during the Long Nineteenth Century

Ottoman Slavery and Abolition in the Nineteenth Century

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