Post-Ottoman Coexistence Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict [Hardcover]

In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the peaceful coexistence of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division.Post-Ottoman Coexistenceinterrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted. Contributors discuss both historical and contemporary practices of coexistence within the context of ethno-national conflict and its aftermath.
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Rebecca Bryantis A. N. Hadjiyannis Senior Research Fellow in the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of numerous works examining the ongoing division in Cyprus, includingImagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus(London: I.B. Tauris, 2004) andThe Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus(Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), among others.

This book will be the seminal work on the theme of coexistence. The dissolution of coexistence, which is also a subject of this volume, is an easier subject to cover, but by understanding the terms of coexistence one is better placed to understand the crises and violence that destroyed them too& I cannot think of a better study on the micro-dynamics of difference.? Nicholas Doumanis, University of New South Wales, Australia

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Introduction:Everyday Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman Space
Rebecca Bryant

PART I: LANDSCAPES OF COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT