Musealisation as a strategy for the reconstruction of an idealised Ottoman past: Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district as a ‘museum-quarter’

Aykaç, Pınar

doi:10.1080/13527258.2018.1475407

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“…At that time, the area was still gaining popularity, mainly among foreign tourists, and coffee shops had not yet mushroomed. This period coincides with the musealisation of İstanbul under the Justice and Development Party, which has ruled the country singlehandedly since 2003 and also, until 2019, won the local elections for İstanbul and the Fatih municipality that includes the city's historical peninsula (Aykaç, 2019). The neo‐Ottomanism of the Justice and Development Party ‘as a political ideology aimed to revive the Ottoman past in various domains’ (Aykaç, 2019, p. 164) has brought with it the erasure of İstanbul's late Roman and Byzantine heritage while highlighting its Ottoman past.…”

Section: Historical Background: Fener Balat and Ayvansaraymentioning

confidence: 87%

“…This period coincides with the musealisation of İstanbul under the Justice and Development Party, which has ruled the country singlehandedly since 2003 and also, until 2019, won the local elections for İstanbul and the Fatih municipality that includes the city's historical peninsula (Aykaç, 2019). The neo‐Ottomanism of the Justice and Development Party ‘as a political ideology aimed to revive the Ottoman past in various domains’ (Aykaç, 2019, p. 164) has brought with it the erasure of İstanbul's late Roman and Byzantine heritage while highlighting its Ottoman past. Although this formulation of neo‐Ottomanism could be dated back to the 1980s, its revival happened through its dominance in Turkish foreign policy (Erdem, 2017) and then it quickly spread to other domains such as education (Tokdoğan, 2018), museums (Bozkuş Barlas, 2014; Kınıkoğlu, 2021), and TV series (Ergin & Karakaya, 2017).…”

Section: Historical Background: Fener Balat and Ayvansaraymentioning

confidence: 87%

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Coffee Shop Owners as Unexpected Tourist Guides in İstanbul's Fener, Balat, and Ayvansaray Neighbourhoods

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2023

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This study aims to understand how the durability of the past may be visible in a place whose past is constantly reinterpreted and unintentionally remade by coffee shop owners in their conversations with their customers in the framework of ongoing economic transformations while they weave their own identities into that of the neighbourhood. In the absence of any readily available information about the history of the area, the coffee shop owners of the Fener, Balat, and Ayvansaray neighbourhoods of İstanbul interpret the cosmopolitan past of the area within the limitations of the materiality of these neighbourhoods under the influence of economic conditions. In this respect, while this article shows how social memory is commodified and tamed for daily usage, it also argues that it is a process that includes different actors and their interpretations, and that this process is bounded by the materiality and durability of the past.

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Section: Historical Background: Fener Balat and Ayvansaraymentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Historical Background: Fener Balat and Ayvansaraymentioning

confidence: 87%

Coffee Shop Owners as Unexpected Tourist Guides in İstanbul's Fener, Balat, and Ayvansaray Neighbourhoods

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“…129 Thus, the emphasis on the Sultanahmet district as a museum in fact meant prioritizing the "upper culture," referring to the Ottoman heritage, thereby aiming to overrule the previous conservation attitudes that had favored pre-Ottoman remnants such as Henri Prost's archaeological park proposal. 130 Recent conservation implementations reveal this aim even more clearly. In accordance with the conservation masterplan, the reconstruction project of the already demolished madrasa attached to Hagia Sophia was prepared.…”

Section: Culture-led Urban Regeneration As a Strategy For The Musealization Of Sultanahmet District (2004-present)mentioning

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Musealization as an Urban Process: The Transformation of the Sultanahmet District in Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula

Aykaç

2019

Journal of Urban History

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As culture-led urban regeneration has become a widely adopted strategy for dilapidated historic cities, the museum as a concept has become a key aspect of this regeneration. With the tangible and intangible aspects of culture being presented in museums, many historic buildings are repurposed as museums, urban, or archaeological sites designated as open-air museums, and the boundaries between museums and historic cities have been dissolved. This article discusses how the museum concept expands from the boundaries of a single building into the historic city itself. Defining this expansion as musealization, this article evaluates its contribution as an urban process in the transformation of Sultanahmet in Istanbul’s historic peninsula, which has been the major subject of conservation studies from the nineteenth century until present day.

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“…On the one side, we can observe a continued Danish investment in archaeological fieldwork that is deeply rooted in classicism, and a particular conception of classical heritage that attracted Jeppesen and many other European scholars to the Mediterranean in the first place. On the other hand, we have the contemporary politics of the Turkish Republic, since 2003 under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (JDP), which has applied a nationalistic and increasingly neo-Ottoman agenda in its approach to heritage sites and monuments ( Aykaç 2018 ;Bozoğlu and Whitehead, forthcoming ). In response to the complex accession talks and the ongoing refugee crisis, the relationship between Turkey and the EU has become increasingly strained in recent years.…”

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Classical Heritage and European Identities

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Kristensen²,

Nørskov³

2019

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Classical Heritage and European Identities examines how the heritages of classical antiquity have been used to construct European identities, and especially the concept of citizenship, in Denmark from the eighteenth century to the present day. It implements a critical historiographical perspective in line with recent work on the "reception" of classical antiquity that has stressed the dialectic relationship between past, present and future.Arguing that the continuous employment and appropriation of classical heritages in the Danish context constitute an interesting case of an imagined geography that is simultaneously based on both national and European identities, this book shows how Denmark's imagined geography is naturalised through very distinctive uses of classical heritages within the educational and heritage sectors. It does so by exploring three significant and interrelated arenas where the heritages of classical antiquity are used to shape Danes as European citizens. Together, these three cases emphasise different but interconnected ways in which classical heritages are being put to use in order to construct Denmark's own distinctive national identity within Europe. Finally, the book also sheds light on some of the challenges that face unified and homogenous conceptions of European heritage and identity, as well as the notion of the "classical" itself.Classical Heritage and European Identities is the first English-language monograph to situate the Danish case within the wider European context. As such, the book should be essential reading for researchers and students engaged in the study of heritage and museums, classics, education and modern European history.

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Musealisation as a strategy for the reconstruction of an idealised Ottoman past: Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district as a ‘museum-quarter’

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Coffee Shop Owners as Unexpected Tourist Guides in İstanbul's Fener, Balat, and Ayvansaray Neighbourhoods

Coffee Shop Owners as Unexpected Tourist Guides in İstanbul's Fener, Balat, and Ayvansaray Neighbourhoods

Musealization as an Urban Process: The Transformation of the Sultanahmet District in Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula

Classical Heritage and European Identities

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