Research Reports on Eyüp

I wrote a brief report on my work in Eyüp following the completion of my ARIT Research Fellowship. The last paragraph runs:

In one sense, the contours of Eyüp’s history would be familiar to anyone who’s studied the history of Istanbul over the past 100 years. Yet at the same time, there’s a great value in examining the specific trajectories of change in Eyüp; a finegrained analysis like this project helps us to understand the  complexities and ambiguities of urban change and meaning. More broadly, research like this project contributes to ongoing studies of nationalism, both in Turkey and around the world. Many scholars have rightly pointed out that Istanbul cannot fully stand for Turkey; but Istanbul is itself a complicated  object. Studying how Eyüp has been made Islamic gives us one more perspective on the changes in Istanbul.

The rest can be found here.