Cities and Islamisms: On the Politics and Production of the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367332006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Bülent Batuman

Opis

This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and the built environment. It will appeal to students and scholars of architecture and urban studies as well as those interested in the social and political aspects of the built environment.

Spis treści

Introduction Islamisms and the Built Environment: Notes for a Research Agenda Bülent Batuman  Part 1 - Nations in Islam: Architecture across Borders  1. InterAsian Islamisms: Monumental Mosques and Modernity in Kazakhstan and Qatar Natalie Koch  2. "Turkish House" Home and Abroad: Islamist Self-Orientalism and Architecture of Diplomacy Bülent Batuman  Part 2- Official versus Vernacular: Dispute over Local Spaces of Worship  3. Performing Algerian Islam in Bouteflika’s policies: Reflections from the nationalization of Sufi zawiya Valentina Fedele  4. Contesting Vision of Modernity? The case of Tanjung Bunut Mosque Khairul Hazmi Zaini  Part 3 - Islamic Architectures of Nation Building  5. Representing "people" through Islamic Architecture in Pakistan Farhan Karim  6. Is there moderation in ostentation? Architectural sectarianism and Lebanese Islamisms (2008-2018) Ward Vloeberghs  Part 4 - Public Spaces / Islamist Subjectivities  7. Monument to an Alternate Islamist Movement: Hosseinyeh Ershad and its Legacy Pamela Karimi & Saba Madani  8. Islamist Urbanism and Spatial Performances in Indonesia Abidin Kusno  Index

O autorze

Bülent Batuman is Associate Professor of Architecture at Bilkent University, with joint appointment in the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architecture. He studied at the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and received his PhD in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. His research areas include social production and politics of the built environment, history and theory of modern architecture and urbanism, and urban politics. His current research focuses on the architectural politics of Islamism, and his latest book, New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey, was published by Routledge in 2018.