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    Spectacle-City and the Individual: Istanbul in Contemporary Memoirs
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021) Uzer, Ceren; Sosyal, Levent
    In recent years, the "old days" of Istanbul has become an important area of interest from the field of culture and arts to the media and academia. Especially after 1990, many books about Istanbul began to be published. Many of these books consist of books about the past of the city. With the 1990s, there was a "boom of memories" in Turkey, as in many other countries in the world. With this period, "Istanbul" emerges as a prominent theme in his memoirs and interest in urban memories increases. From the memories of travelers, officials, writers or artists who once visited Istanbul, to the memories of Istanbul's non-Muslim communities or to the memories of "ordinary" Istanbulites, today there are many books that focus on the old days of Istanbul and consist of personal narratives. These books, in addition to being important sources and literary products for the study of history and memory, show that there is a new form of relationship between the city and the spectacle when considered in the context of the transformation of the city. It is seen that the cities that turned into spectacles with the "spectacularization" in the 1990s not only with "mega" projects at the macro level, but also at the individual level. In a society where the individual is at the center of the social organization, the spectacle-city is now reproduced with the "individual." The individual is not only the "spectator" of the spectacle-city, but an important resource that reproduces this process. The subject of this thesis is the relationship between Istanbul memoirs and Istanbul's transformation into a spectacle-city. In this study, which discusses that the spectacle-city is reproduced through the individual, memoirs are considered as an example of this reproduction. It is shown how Istanbul memoirs contribute to the image of "multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious" Istanbul, in line with the "world city" discourse, through the discourse of "lost old good Istanbul."