Publics, Politics and Participation

Kırlı 179 discourse.” The basic ingredient of the submissive political culture is offered in essentialist terms—for example, Isl ...

180 Between Private and Public similar public places appeared in Europe, or so the arguments go.^14 As a variant of “cultural na ...

Kırlı 181 merely intended for social control; although the latter is integral to it in that it identifies resistance. It is also ...

182 Between Private and Public not limited to the capital, although it is impossible to assert that the entire population was in ...

Kırlı 183 what kinds of political issues people talked about and thought affected their lives and on the other, various attempts ...

184 Between Private and Public their superiors that they, too, will be punished accordingly, in case they indulge in such talk.^ ...

Kırlı 185 was implemented in a continuous manner after this date.^30 Second, while social control through monitoring had been pr ...

186 Between Private and Public Seeing and being seen Before the reign of Mahmud II (r. 1808–1839), the public visibility of Otto ...

Kırlı 187 n the first half of the nineteenth century, during the reign of I Mahmud II, the public persona of the sultan acquired ...

188 Between Private and Public Muslim Anatolia, he only visited Istanbul’s neighboring town of Izmit. Considering this was a tim ...

Kırlı 189 aspiration was both to constitute his subjects as a collective identity and “to take symbolic possession” of his realm ...

190 Between Private and Public In addition to the novelty of Mahmud II’s decision to leave the capital and travel through the em ...

Kırlı 191 Figure 1: Anonymous (between 1808 and 1829). Reproduced from The Sultan’s Portraits: Picturing the House of Osman (Ist ...

192 Between Private and Public Figure 2: Anonymous (between 1829 and 1839). Reproduced from The Sultan’s Portraits, 505. ...

Kırlı 193 y both seeing his subjects and making himself visible to them, B Mahmud II did not merely aim at emphasizing the colle ...

194 Between Private and Public s is also how the public sphere was redefined: It was no longer Thi merely a moral sphere within ...

Kırlı 195 the spy reports, the popular political discourse was implicitly legitimized; second, people were constituted as politi ...

196 Between Private and Public a peculiarity of Ottoman governance, nor of other so-called absolut- ist regimes. Surveillance as ...

Kırlı 197 Notes 1.ould like to thank Shirine Hamadeh for her invaluable input. I w 2.arold Mah, “Phantasies of the Public Sphere ...

198 Between Private and Public 10.arry Harootunian, H Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan ( ...