Huw Halstead

Greeks without Greece (eBook, ePUB)

Homelands, Belonging, and Memory amongst the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Faced with discrimination in Turkey, most of the Greeks of Istanbul and Imbros left for Greece in the years 1955-80, where they received a rather lukewarm reception. This book explores the myriad ways in which these expatriates daily understood their contemporary difficulties through the lens of historical experience, and reimagined the past according to present concerns and conceptions. It shows that in a broad spectrum of different domains - from commemorative ceremonies and the minutiae of citizenship to everyday expressions of national identity and stereotypes about others - the past is a resource that can be deployed to sustain variable and changeable identities, memories, and meanings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351244695
• Artikelnr.: 54673052

Autorenporträt

Dr Huw Halstead is a research fellow at the University of St Andrews. He was previously the Macmillan-Rodewald Postdoctoral Student at the British School at Athens (2018), an associate lecturer in the Department of History and a member of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) at the University of York (2017-2018), and the postdoctoral research fellow in history at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York (2016-2017). His research focuses on displacement, memory, and public history with a particular emphasis on the Mediterranean world. He is director of the pedagogic project Personalising History, which uses oral history to develop educational resources to teach about the Holocaust in secondary education.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction I ntroduction
Greeks without Greece: overview
Terminology
Methodology and sources
Structure of the book
1 - The Greeks of Turkey
Istanbul
Imbros
Greece
Part II: Local Homelands and National Belonging 2 - Patrída as a local metaphor
Patrída as a local metaphor
Through the looking glass: continuity, invention, imposition
The 'usable past': the everyday life of national identity
3 - More than simply Hellenic: Belonging and inclusive particularity
The Greeks of Turkey: a diaspora community?
The Helleno-Romaic dilemma
'The Romiós is one thing and the Hellene is another'
Inclusive particularity (1): Polítes and Byzantium
Inclusive particularity (2): Imvriótes and Ancient Athens
Expatriate protoselves
Conclusions
4 - Without barbarians: Turks and Elladítes
Ethnicity as an 'interpretive prism'
Good Turk, bad Turks
Nominal and experiential Turks
Privileged knowledge (1): the 'bad Turks'
Privileged knowledge (2): the 'good Turk'
Conclusions
Part III: National and Transnational Histories 5 - Everyday multidirectional memory
Holocaust memory
Mediated memory
An everyday history of multidirectional memory
6 - 'The Third Fall': Commemorations and national history
'The 300 who stayed': thinking analogically
Commemorating the 1955 Istanbul Riots
Commemorating the 1453 Fall of Constantinople
1453 and 1821
1453 and 1955
Transcending the national paradigm: the Federation of Constantinopolitans
Conclusions
7 - 'Kristallnacht in Constantinople': Parallel and analogous histories Parallel histories: Armenians and Kurds
Analogous histories: Jews and Nazis
Asymmetric histories: the Western Thracian minority
From 'pogrom' to 'genocide': classifying the persecution of the Greeks of Turkey
Transcultural memory in personal testimony
Transnational nationalism?
Conclusions
Part IV: Homelands New and Old 8 - Welcome to Gökçeada: The Greek return to Imbros
Between 'New Imbros' and 'Old Imbros'
Confronting 'the real Imbros': challenges and prospects
'Native tourists': belonging in the Imvrian return
'When you return to your patrída': the second generation
Conclusions
Conclusions Inclusive particularity
The past as a critical mirror
Excavating and backfilling the past
Everyday multidirectionality
Appendix: Tables Table 1 - List of interviewees: Polítes
Table 2 - List of interviewees: Imvriótes
Table 3 - List of interviewees: Second generation
Table 4 - Decline in Greek-speaking/Orthodox Christian populations of Istanbul and Imbros
Glossary