An Assesment on the Definiton of Publicity in Ottoman Context
An Assesment on the Definiton of Publicity in Ottoman Context
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| Type | Journal Article |
| Publication year | 2013 |
| Author | Altinişik, Işıl UÇMAN |
| Publication title | Işıl, Osmanlı Bağlamında Kamusallığın Tanımı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme. |
| ISSN | 13051458 |
| Abstract Note | By the end of the 19th century, the transformation of Ottoman spatiotemporal practices and built environment were the evident phenomena. Administrative buildings, military compounds, schools and factories are the formal and pivotal artifacts of the new modern built environment, which are generally regarded as the first and foremost spatial organizations of modern urban life inculcating universal time which is locally named "alafranga saat". Although having remarkable effects on the transformation of the Ottoman spatiotemporal culture, to regard them as core institutional urban fragments seems to be problematical. This paper does not offer a historical overview of the transformation of modern spatiotemporal built environment in the Ottoman context, nor its historiography. Rather, it offers to work on the socio-cultural meanings attributed to these practices forming the urban developments in the 19th century. In this aspect, archival documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives and the periodical texts concerning the issue and the context such as Ahmet Mithat Efendi's Avrupa Âdâbı Muâşereti yahut Alafranga (European Manners or the European Style) in 1884, Hasan Hamid's, "Şems-i Tarih- Zevâl-i Saat (Dissolution of Time)" published in the Mülkiye magazine in 1909, Ahmet Samim's "Vaktimizi Bilelim! (Let us Know Our Time!)" in Sada-yı Millet magazine in 1910, Basiretçi Ali Efendi's Şehir Mektupları (City Mails) published in the journal Basiret between 1866-1908 and Balıkhane Nazırı Ali Rıza Bey's Eski Zamanlarda İstanbul Hayatı (Istanbul Life in Old Times) in the early 1920s are referred to as the primary sources. The intention is to demonstrate the direct relation of changing conceptions and practices of publicity with sophistications that can be traced back from the 19th century and complicated, multiple and rapid formations after the 19th century. The transforming conception of publicity together with new practices of space-time within the leaping shift from pre-modern sophistications to extensive formations of the modern will be adressed as the nexus of Ottoman socialization practices. (English) |
| Pages | 29-42 |
| Issue | 17 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Abbreviation | CTAD: Journal of Modern Turkish History Studies |