In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the "peaceful coexistence" of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates ways of living together and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted. Contributors discuss both historical and contemporary practices of coexistence within the context of ethno-national conflict and its aftermath.

Rebecca Bryant is A. N. Hadjiyannis Senior Research Fellow in the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of numerous works examining the ongoing division in Cyprus, including Imagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004) and The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus (Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), among others.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Everyday Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman Space
Rebecca Bryant

PART I: LANDSCAPES OF COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT

Chapter 1. Sharing Traditions of Land Use and Ownership: Considering the "Ground" for Coexistence and Conflict in Pre-Modern Cyprus
Irene Dietzel

Chapter 2. Intersecting Religioscapes in Post-Ottoman Spaces: Trajectories Of Change, Competition And Sharing Of Religious Spaces
Robert M. Hayden

Chapter 3. Cosmopolitanism or Constitutive Violence? The Creation of "Turkish" Iraklio
Aris Anagnostopoulos

Chapter 4. Trade and Exchange in Nicosia's Shared Realm: Ermou Street in the 1940s and 1950s
Anita Bakshi

PART II: PERFORMING COEXISTENCE AND DIFFERENCE

Chapter 5. In Bed Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi's Alexandria Films
Deborah A. Starr

Chapter 6. Memory, Conviviality and Coexistence: Negotiating Class Differences in Burgazadasi, Istanbul
Deniz Neriman Duru

Chapter 7. "If you write this tacno, it will be tocno!": Performing Linguistic Difference in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
Azra Hromadzic

PART III: NEGOTIATING EVERYDAY COEXISTENCE IN THE SHADOW OF CONFLICT

Chapter 8. The Istanbul Armenians: Negotiating Coexistence
Sossie Kasbarian

Chapter 9. A Conflict of Spaces or of Recognition? Co-Presence in Divided Jerusalem
Sylvaine Bulle

Chapter 10. Grounds for Sharing, Occasions for Conflict: An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Cohabitation and Antagonism
Glenn Bowman

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