On the Tram | James Ryan

Urban Space in the Ottoman World

Original air date: 16 March 2013 | The spread of public transportation in the form of boats and trams in late Ottoman Istanbul changed the lived geography of the city and created new public spaces of interaction. In this episode, Jim Ryan discusses the debates surrounding social conduct and gender relations on the trams and how this new mode of transport fit into the larger transformations of Ottoman urban space. Sam Dolbee is a PhD candidate in the department of Middle East Studies at New York University James Ryan is a PhD candidate in the department of History at University of Pennsylvania Select Bibliography Primary Sources Babanzade, Ismali Hakk?, De Stamboul a Bagdad: Notes et Impressions d’un Homme d’Etat Turc Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1911 Gürsel, Nedim, The Last Tram Ruth Whitehouse trans., London: Comma Press 2011 Rasim, Ahmet, Fuh?-u At?k, Istanbul: ?kdam Matbaas? 1922 ___________, Dünkü ?stanbul Hovardal?k, Istanbul: Arba Press 1987 Secondary Sources Belenky, Masha, “Transitory Tales: Writing the Omnibus in Nineteenth-Century Paris” Dix-Neuf Vol. 16 No. 3, November 2012, pp. 283-303 Brummett, Palmira, Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-1911 Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000 Çelik, Zeynep, Empire, Architecture and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2008 Emrence, Cem, “Istanbul Tramvay’?nda S?n?f ve Kimlik (1871-1922)” Toplumsal Tarih Vol. 16, No. 93 (2001) pp. 6-13 Gülersoy, Çelik, Tramvay ?stanbul’da Istanbul, Istanbul Kitapli?i, 1989 Hanssen, Jens, Fin de Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital, New York, Oxford University Press 2005 Kayserlio?lu, R. Sertaç Dersaadet'ten Istanbul'a Tramvay Ikinci Bölüm Istanbul, ?.E.T.T Genel Müdürlü?ü 1999 Papayanis, Nicholas, Horse-Drawn Cabs and Omnibuses in Paris: The Idea of Circulation and the Business of Public Transit, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1996 Philliou, Christine, “When the Clock Strikes Twelve: The Inception of an Ottoman Past in Early Republican Turkey” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 31, No. 1 pp. 172-182, 2011 Schoenberg, Phillip Ernest, “The Evolution of Transport in Turkey (Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor) under Ottoman Rule, 1856-1918” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (1977) Shissler, A. Holly, “Beauty Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early Republican Turkey” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 24, No. 1 2004 pp. 107-122 Woodall G. Carole, “Sensing the City: Sound, Movement and the Night in 1920s Istanbul” Ph.D. diss. New York University Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2008