Browsing by Author "Kilinç, Kivanç"

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In pursuit of a European city: Competing landscapes of Eskişehir's riverfront
(Taylor and Francis Inc., 2016) Kivanç Kilinç; Duygu Kaçar; Kilinç, Kivanç; Kaçar, Duygu
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Should we have known our place after all?
(Penn State University Press, 2015) Kivanç Kilinç; Kilinç, Kivanç
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The Hittite Sun Is Rising Once Again Contested Narratives of Identity Place and Memory in Ankara
(INDIANA UNIV PRESS, 2017) Kivanc Kilinc; Kilinç, Kivanç
This article seeks to shed light on the journey of the Hittite sun disk a cult object from the Early Bronze Age from the architectural narrative and discursive boundaries of a public museum to the streets of contemporary Ankara. First it explores the role that the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations played through the invention of secular symbols in (re) defining modern Turkish identity. Then it probes into the processes by which the sun disk became an increasingly popular and yet controversial political symbol. In doing so the article examines how a state-sanctioned memory-making project heralded a clash of imaginations: conservative and Islamist versus secular-leftist urban identities embodying conflicting visions of Ankara's past and future.
'Welcome to Europe': A bridge east of architectural history
(Web Portal Ubiquity Press, 2018) Kivanç Kilinç; Kilinç, Kivanç
This position paper examines the complex boundaries that separate Europe from both its constructed margins and those of its imagined Others. Where exactly do we enter the Continent and where does it end? Is it while crossing the world-famous bridge on the Bosporus for instance that one receives the first impression of Europe or is it somewhere farther west - past a 'wall' protected by a strong border regime? To address these questions this paper tells two concomitant stories about the practices of urban governance and architectural design in Turkey in the early twentieth century by providing snapshots of numerous encounters and negotiations between multiple actors: American public health specialists European-trained local bureaucrats and a French city planner. While Turkey's dubious position between the West and the East provides the potential for rethinking the boundaries of the Continent the paper uses the Turkish case primarily to unpack the idea of 'Europe' as both a fluid entity and a fixed location an uneven terrain upon which canonical discourses of identity are constructed. In doing so it points to the interchangeability of subject positions which often result in competing narratives of modernization urban design and the whereabouts of the line separating Turkey from Europe. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.