Spatial conceptions of the nation modernizing geographies in Greece and Turkey (Tauris Academic Studies, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The formation of the nation-states is as much the result of developments regarding land and people, as of military and political struggle. This book looks at the various aspects and stages of this process in Greece and Turkey. It considers the debates, social forces and world-historical events that have affected national boundaries
The imaginary topographies of the Megali idea: national territory as Utopia / Anastasia Stouraiti and Alexander Kazamias -- Urban space and nationalism: changing local networks in the nineteenth-century Ottoman empire / Yonca Köksal -- From Ottoman territory to a Greek state: hypotheses on an unfinished rupture / Yannis Tsiomis -- Sisyphean task or Procrustean bed? Matching state and church borders and promised lands in Greece / Anastassios Anastassiadis -- The role of religion and geography in Turkish nationalism: the case of Nurettin Topçu / M. Asum Karaömerliğlu -- Imaging the nation: 'L'imaginaire' and public space in Turkey / Nur Yalman -- The materiality of sovereignty: geographical expertise and changing place names in northern Cyprus / Yael Navaro-Yashin -- Greek Cypriot national identity: a clash between geography and history / Caesar V. Mavratsas -- Nationalisms vs. millets: buildings collective identities in Ottoman Thrace / Paraskevas Konortas -- Contested territories and the quest for ethnology: people and places in Izmir 1919-22 / Georgios Agelopoulos -- Antakya between empire and nation / Reşat Kasaba -- Narratives of Istanbul's Ottoman heritage / Ayşe On̈cü