Urban Tanzîmât and Corrupting Property: Women as Petitioners of Honor in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

This article examines the relations between tanzîmât and corruption within the context of urban renewal projects in nineteenth-century Istanbul. It takes corruption as a critical locus of analysis in order to understand notions of justice and morality that historical actors fashioned in the social p...

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Published in:Hawwa
Main Author: Güçlü, Eda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Hawwa
Further subjects:B urban tanzîmât Istanbul capitalist modernity city planning property corruption honor morality social justice petitioning
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Summary:This article examines the relations between tanzîmât and corruption within the context of urban renewal projects in nineteenth-century Istanbul. It takes corruption as a critical locus of analysis in order to understand notions of justice and morality that historical actors fashioned in the social production of urban tanzîmât and property relations. It reveals that a theme of honor was central to both state institutions and real estate owners with regard to the positions that they took in property conflicts that emerged as a result of planning activities in the city. This study argues that honor was not only a moral but also an economic theme that revolved around the question of locational values in this intense period of spatial restructuring.
ISSN:1569-2086
Contains:In: Hawwa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341318