New Writing - Archives and Context

Recently published - a short commentary on an article I wrote about archival fieldwork:

For centuries, many of these buildings were embedded within, and helped to sustain, a whole set of relationships – not only religious ones, but also Eyüp’s social, cultural, political, and economic relationships. Following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, many of these buildings’ connections to their contexts were dramatically reworked by the reforms that we usually gloss as the ‘secularizing’ reforms of 20^th century Turkey. This brings me back to what I was trying to do in 2012: Find one archive to tell one part of this much bigger story from a very specific place.

The commentary, "Archives in Context," is accessible here. The journal article, "Papering, arranging, and depositing: Learning from working with an Istanbul archive," (published in Area) is here.