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Dangerous Cosmopolitanism: Erasing Difference in Istanbul

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If, as is widely argued, we live in a cosmopolitan moment, the processes of cosmopolitanization are sometimes fraught with danger. Describing contexts in which cosmopolitanism is censored, this article considers recursive erasures of difference in Turkish-Jewish architecture, bodily marking, and language that highlight this sense of dangerous cosmopolitanism. This scenario complicates the popular notion that cosmopolitanism requires public nomination of difference; instead, cosmopolitanism is sometimes observable only by accounting for knowledge of what should be kept private. Without a fundamental examination of the production and interpretation of knowledge of difference, reckonings of lived cosmopolitanism are incomplete.

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84(2)

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439-473

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Dangerous Cosmopolitanism: Erasing Difference in Istanbul
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Brink-Danan, Marcy Dangerous Cosmopolitanism: Erasing Difference in Istanbul. Anthropological Quarterly. 2011: 439-473.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-tur16