Taking urban protests on gentrification and urban restructuring in Berlin and Istanbul as points of departure, Maria do Mar Castro Varela and Baris Ulker discuss different forms of protest movements and struggles. Illustrating the paradoxes in diverse dynamic interactions, they focus on the conflicts in urban spaces between the heterogeneous groups of the governed on the one hand and the governing on the other hand. The volume explores the genealogies of tolerance, first through the historical (dis-)continuities of different postcolonial cities, and second through the daily practices of...
Taking urban protests on gentrification and urban restructuring in Berlin and Istanbul as points of departure, Maria do Mar Castro Varela and Baris Ul...
How has ethnic entrepreneurship emerged and developed since the late eighties in Berlin? In his study, Baris Ulker answers this question by relying on the experiences of immigrants from Turkey. Most academic studies on ethnic entrepreneurship have focused either on the most unitary structure available in the natural flow of history or on the pre-given cultural characteristics of immigrants. This book instead sets historical ruptures, conditions of possibility and individual practices in context. It analyzes how human beings have been turned into ethnic entrepreneurs and explains the ways of...
How has ethnic entrepreneurship emerged and developed since the late eighties in Berlin? In his study, Baris Ulker answers this question by relying on...
