Post-Ottoman Topologies (Web PDF) von Nicolas Argenti

Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Nicolas Argenti

Chapter 1.Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece
Daniel M. Knight

Chapter 2.Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
David Henig

Chapter 3.Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness
Alice von Bieberstein

Chapter 4.The Material Life of War at the Greek Border
Laurie Kain Hart

Chapter 5.(Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event
Penelope Papailias

Chapter 6.Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos
Séverine Rey

Chapter 7.Eyes Shut, Muted Voices: Narrating and Temporalizing the Post-Civil War Era through a Monument
Dimitra Gefou-Madianou

Chapter 8.Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World
Charles Stewart

Bibliography
Index

How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time. Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term late nationalism.

Nicolas Argenti is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is the author ofThe Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (2007) and coeditor of several collections, including (with Katharina Schramm)Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (2010).