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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
MEANDERING TRAJECTORIES
INSTITUTIONAL AND INFRASTRUCTURAL SUPPORTS
PEOPLE AND PLACES
Note on Language
Introduction: Germany, Turkey, and the Space In-Between
REVAMPING GERMAN
BERLIN ENSEMBLES
IDENTITIES, MIMETISM AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY
CREATIVE TRANSNATIONALISM AND VISIBLE DENIZENS
EUROPE: A CHRISTIAN CLUB
BRANDING NORMAL
POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP
TURKEY AND EUROPE: TURKEY IN EUROPE
TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF DE/RACINATION AND MOVEMENT
DREAMS DEFERRED: ISLAM, EXILE, ETHNICITY
Berlin: A Prelude
1. Shifting Cosmopolitics
THE LOCAL LANDSCAPE OF A CITY THAT WAS
REVISING BERLIN
IMPETUS OF PLACE
THE SCENIC AND THE SZENE
DEFINING SEMANTICS
TRAVERSING THE CORRIDORS
OVERTAKING HISTORY
THE WALL IN THE MIND/THE MIND’S WALL
WALL HACKERS, WALL HAWKERS
THE CONUNDRUM OF COSMOPOLITICS
2. “We Called for Labor, but People Came Instead”
HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS OF ÜBERFREMDUNG
GUESTS AT WORK
ELABORATIONS OF EXCLUSION
OUTLANDISH FEARS: THE HEIDELBERG MANIFESTO
STATISTICS AND THE STATE
MIT-GERMANS
PUBLIC RELATIONS IN THE CITY-STATE: FROM XENOPHOBIC TO XENOPHILIC
THE LITTLE TURKISH COURSE: AN EXPERIMENT IN COEXISTENCE
3. Making Ausländer
MAKING ETHNICS: GENEALOGY AND CRITIQUE
DESTABILIZING ETHNICITY
THE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF ETHNIC PLACES
ALL FOREIGNERS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL
KREUZBERG IN THE GERMAN COLLECTIVE IMAGINARY
REPRODUCING HIERARCHIES
COMMODITIZED ETHNICITY: CONSUMING ETHNIC CHIC
ALTERNATIVES AND CONSEQUENCE
PERFORMING ETHNICITY, RE-FORMING RACE
MIMETISM AND THE MAKING OF A TURK/KURD/ALEVI/ZAZA
MARKETING ETHNICITY WITH “GOOD ETHNICS”
4. Haunted Jewish Spaces and Turkish Phantasms of the Present
LANDSCAPES OF CONCEALMENT
COUNTERMEMORIES AND THE DISPUTE OF THE “PRESENT” IN BERLIN
URBAN RENEWAL
THE POLITICS OF NAMING
PHANTASMATIC MONTAGES: JEWISH AND TURKISH OVERLAY
POSING THE “RIDDLE OF REFERENTIALITY”
PIGS, GARLIC, AND JEWS
HEIMAT AND ITS VIOLATION
ANTI-SEMITISM AND XENOPHOBIA
5. Berlin’s Kreuzberg: Topographies of Infraction
CENTERING PERIPHERIES
AN ISLAND WITHIN AN ISLAND: A NEIGHBORHOOD OF DEAD-ENDS
PLACING PEOPLE AND PEOPLING PLACES
EXPOSING TURKISH INTERIORS
ARCHITECTONICS OF SOCIAL LIFE
FROM ISLAND TO MAINLAND: A WANING SCENE
6. Beyond the Bridge: Two Banks of the River
INTEGRATING NATURALIZATION
HOMELAND TURKEY?
KILLING PASSPORTS AND DISORIENTATIONS: A HEREDITARY LANDSCAPE?
STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES: EDUCATION AND THE FAMILY IN GERMANY
RITUAL REPRODUCTION AND RESISTANCE
TURNING TO TURKISH
ORGANIC INTELLECTUALS
“GEÇECEĞİZ”: PASSING TO GERMAN
GERMAN TURKS’ ”ETHNICITY”: SEIZED AND DENIED
7. Minor Literatures and Professional Ethnics
MINORITY CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURING
PROFESSIONALLY ETHNIC
MANIPULATING WORK
AUSLÄNDER-SEVEN AND THE INFIDEL’S TONGUE
TURKISH BONUS
TOWARD A MINOR LITERATURE
SOUTHWARD GAZE
8. Practicing German Citizenship
THE CITIZENSHIP CONUNDRUM: ROMANTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS AND CONSEQUENCES
BLOOD, PROXIMITY, AND RACIALIZATION
JUS SOLIS, JUS SANGUINIS: AUSSIEDLER, MIMESIS, AND SUFFERING FOR GERMANNESS
THE POLITICS OF RACE
CITIZENSHIP REVISITED
DUAL NATIONALITY = DIVIDED LOYALTY?
COMMISSIONING GERMANS FROM FOREIGNERS
PASSPORT STORIES AND PINK CARDS
CONTESTED MEANINGS OF CITIZENSHIP
HUMANS, CITIZENS, EXCEPTIONALISM
9. Deracination to Diaspora: Leave and Leaving
İZİNLİ AND İZİNLİ: TAKING LEAVE
E-5, THE BALKANS, AND BRIBES
TERRA INFIRMA
HOMECOMINGS AND GOINGS
DISPLACED CENTERS, EMERGENT SUBJECTIVITIES
10. Reimagining Islams in Berlin
ISLAMIC IN-VISIBILITIES
ISLAMIC STRATIFICATIONS
ALEVIS: MORALITY AND MARTYRDOM
ENDOGAMY AND MELODRAMA IN THE DIASPORA
WHITE CHEESE AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE
STAKING CLAIMS, MARKING PLACES
CONSUMING JEALOUSY: PROMISCUITY AND THE HELAL INDUSTRY
VIDEO NASTIES
QUR’AN SCHOOL AND THE SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF ALEVİLİK
ALEVİ OR KURD: CONFLICTUAL IDENTITIES
RITUAL AND CONTINGENCY
THE TURCOMAN WOODCUTTERS: “THEY ONCE WERE THE POOREST—NOW THEY ARE RICH”
ALEVİ FUTURES
11. Veiling Modernities
L’AFFAIRE DU FOULARD: LAICITÉ AND UNIVERSALISM
AUTHENTICITY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEADGEAR
SUNNIS, ALEVİS, AND SCARVES
THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE AND THE “FOREIGNER PROBLEM”
EROTIC SCARVES AND “MODERN GIRLS”
Conclusion: Reluctant Cosmopolitans
ARE TURKS COSMOPOLITAN?
COSMOPOLITAN CHALLENGES
DEGREES OF GERMAN: DENATIONALIZING CITIZENSHIP
NATIONAL BELONGING TO NATIONAL BRANDING
BENIGN MULTICULTURALISM AND THE NEED FOR HOSPITALITY
Glossary
Notes
INTRODUCTION
PRELUDE
1. SHIFTING COSMOPOLITICS
2. “WE CALLED FOR LABOR”
3. MAKING AUSLÄNDER
4. HAUNTED JEWISH SPACES, TURKISH PHANTASMS
5. BERLIN’S KREUZBERG
6. BEYOND THE BRIDGE
7. MINOR LITERATURES, PROFESSIONAL ETHNICS
8. PRACTICING GERMAN CITIZENSHIP
9. DERACINATION TO DIASPORA
10. REIMAGINING ISLAMS IN BERLIN
11. VEILING MODERNITIES
CONCLUSION
Works Cited
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