Urban Tanzîmât and Corrupting Property: Women as Petitioners of Honor in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
This article examines the relations between tanzîmât and corruption within the context of urban renewal projects in nineteenth-century Istanbul. It takes corruption as a critical locus of analysis in order to understand notions of justice and morality that historical actors fashioned in the social p...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Hawwa
Year: 2017, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 73-106 |
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urban tanzîmât
Istanbul
capitalist modernity
city planning
property
corruption
honor
morality
social justice
petitioning
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Summary: | This article examines the relations between tanzîmât and corruption within the context of urban renewal projects in nineteenth-century Istanbul. It takes corruption as a critical locus of analysis in order to understand notions of justice and morality that historical actors fashioned in the social production of urban tanzîmât and property relations. It reveals that a theme of honor was central to both state institutions and real estate owners with regard to the positions that they took in property conflicts that emerged as a result of planning activities in the city. This study argues that honor was not only a moral but also an economic theme that revolved around the question of locational values in this intense period of spatial restructuring. |
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ISSN: | 1569-2086 |
Contains: | In: Hawwa
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341318 |