Overview
- Provides a critical Inquiry of the metropolis as a landscape of global modernity
- Discusses theories on space, everyday life and mobility
- Analyses spatial encounters as a socio-political consituent
Part of the book series: Identities and Modernities in Europe (IME)
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Keywords
- socio-political representation
- transit mobility
- spatial practices
- everyday mobilities
- urban mobility
- public transport
About this book
This book analyzes Istanbul's bus rapid transit, the metrobus, as an encountering space to unfold the perception and practice of togetherness. Based on field research with regular metrobus passengers, the book presents a layered analysis between everyday life, everyday mobility, and togetherness to emphasize the metropolitan impact on the socio-spatial experience and subjectification. By articulating Lefebvrian social space in a metropolitan context, the book discusses that Istanbul's spatially and temporally framed everydayness leads inhabitants to the need for bus rapid transit. On the other hand, the need for the metrobus produces transit modes of experience in regulars' socio-spatial relation and subjectification. As a result, encountering and being with the unfamiliar and diverse others undertake the framed typologies of the first two layers and produce a dissolving essence in the idea and practice of togetherness in Istanbul.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Özlem Cihan is a Research Assistant in the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Encounters and Togetherness in the Metropolis
Book Subtitle: The Metrobuses of Istanbul
Authors: Özlem Cihan
Series Title: Identities and Modernities in Europe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-60089-0Due: 10 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-60092-0Due: 10 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-60090-6Due: 10 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-3335
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3343
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 230
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations