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In the field of contemporary urban research, there is a growing realization that urban configurations, collective imaginations as well as complex networks of power cannot be examined and interpreted adequately by applying only classical methods of social science. This text looks at different kinds of knowledge production within the research and exhibition project Global Prayers focusing on processes of research, the invention of ­methods, the collection and analysis of data, and their translation into formats for presentation. In the context of theoretical concepts on the role of ethnographic and artistic research, examples from the Global Prayers project are re-viewed to analyze several methodological procedures, such as multi-sited ethnography, sound recordings, enactments, and interventions as promising challenges for inventive urban research.

Cover Public Istanbul -- CONTENT -- Preface -- PART 1. CONTESTED SPACES -- Introduction: Public Space as a Critical Concept. Adequate for Understanding Istanbul Today? -- Mapping Social Istanbul. Extracts of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area Atlas -- Contested Public Spaces vs. Conquered Public Spaces. Gentrification and its Reflections on Urban Public Space in Istanbul -- Globalization, Locality and the Struggle over a Living Space. The Case of Karanfilköy -- Fortress Istanbul. Gated Communities and the Socio-Urban Transformation -- Peripheral Public Space. Types in Progress -- Old City Walls as Public Spaces in Istanbul -- Regenerating »Public Istanbul«. Two Projects on the Golden Horn -- Public Transformation of the Bosporus. Facts and Opportunities -- PART 2 EXPERIENCING ISTANBUL -- Introduction: Spaces of Everyday Life -- Istanbul's Worldliness -- Public People. Temporary Labor Migrants in Nineteenth Century Istanbul -- The Public and the Private. Discourses and Identifications among Vanli Women in Istanbul -- Creating New Spaces, Claiming Rights. West African Immigrants in Istanbul -- Whose Space, Whose Culture? Struggle for Cultural Representation in »French Street« of Istanbul -- Sabiha in »Public Istanbul« -- Subjects that don't count. Places that are not important. 5 Artistic Approaches -- Notes on Contributors.

Review text: »Das Buch zeigt, dass Stadtforschung ein notwendig interdisziplinäres Feld ist, das sich jenseits von Regionalismen etabliert hat.« Frank Müller, Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, 4 (2013) »Die Autoren und Autorinnen haben ganz unterschiedliche Positionen im akademischen Feld und dementsprechend weisen sich die Beiträge durch eine große Bandbreite von Forschungspraxen aus.« Monika Streule, dérive, 53 (2013) Besprochen in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 17.11.2013, Matthias Lemke Stadt und Raum, 5 (2013)

Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul.

Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul.

In this article the possibilities for and attainment of knowledge in a transdisciplinary combination of the analytical categories "space" and "discourse" are explored, focusing on research of the urban and the public in the area of cultural science. The background of this article is a shared research experience in an interdisciplinary ethnography project investigating political appropriation of urban space in Mexico City. In this project ethnographic research on urban space by WILDNER and the semiotic analysis of discourse by HUFFSCHMID were combined. In the first part of the article the conceptual assumptions of this intersection are discussed, followed by questions about what was learned from the respective analytical practices. Our assumption is the interpenetration of space and discourse: no space (as discussed by LEFEBVRE) can be acknowledged without its discursive configurations; meanwhile discourse (as discussed by FOUCAULT) does not take place in a void, but rather in a material as well as socially constructed space. The authors discuss different levels of methodological approaches as observation, reading, description, and analysis of spatial and discursive practices and materiality. On the basis of the case study (three closing events of the election campaign in Mexico City 2006) possible interfaces and intersections between research on spaces and on discourses are delineated in connection to the concepts of setting/stage/dramatization, control/power, and inscription. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0903253 ; En esta contribución se exploran las posibilidades y ganancias epistemológicas de un entrelazamiento transdisciplinario desde las ciencias culturales de las categorias "espacio" y "discurso", particularmente en la perspectiva de la investigación de lo urbano y lo público. El punto de partida es una experiencia de investigación compartida por las autoras: la etnografia interdisciplinaria de las apropiaciones políticas en la Ciudad de México, en la que se cruzaron las respectivas especializaciones como son ...

In dem Beitrag werden die Möglichkeiten und Erkenntnisgewinne einer transdisziplinären Verschränkung der analytischen Kategorien "Raum" und "Diskurs", insbesondere für die kulturwissenschaftliche Stadt- und Öffentlichkeitsforschung, ausgelotet. Ausgangspunkt dafür ist eine gemeinsame Forschungserfahrung der Autorinnen, die interdisziplinäre Ethnografie politischer Raumaneignungen in Mexiko-Stadt, bei der sich die jeweiligen Spezialisierungen (ethnografische Raumforschung bei WILDNER, semiotische Diskursanalyse bei HUFFSCHMID) kreuzten. Diese "Kreuzung" wird hier zunächst in ihren konzeptionellen Prämissen nachvollzogen und anschließend nach Lerneffekten für die analytische Praxis befragt. Ausgangspunkt dafür ist die Annahme der gegenseitigen Durchdrungenheit von Räumlichkeit und Diskursivität: kein Raum (im Sinne von LEFEBVRE) kann ohne seine diskursive Konfiguration gedacht werden, Diskurs (im Sinne FOUCAULTs) wiederum ereignet sich nicht im "luftleeren", sondern in einem sowohl materiell wie auch sozial konstruierten Raum.
Diskutiert werden die methodischen Ansätze der Beobachtung, Lektüre, Beschreibung und Analyse räumlicher wie diskursiver Praktiken und Materialitäten. Anhand des Fallbeispiels der Wahlkampfveranstaltung wird schließlich nach den Schnittstellen und möglichen Verschränkungen zwischen Raum- und Diskursforschung gefragt, die an den Begriffen Setting/Bühne/Inszenierung, Einschreibungen, Kontrolle/Macht expliziert werden.