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Feeding Istanbul: The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning

Feeding Istanbul: The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning

Turkkan, Candan

Hardcover

Business GeneralGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9004424512
ISBN13: 9789004424517
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 22 2021
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign's duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, Feeding Istanbul makes a compelling case for situating food politics, and politics of urban provisioning in particular, at the centre of the way we think about the relationship between the sovereign and the political community..

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