Islamic Urbanism? Space, consumption, and development in Istanbul and Jakarta
Friday, April 18
10:00am - 5:00pm
Knox Hall, room 509
606 W 122nd Street
New York, NY 10027
Conference schedule and details at ircpl.org.
 Recent protests and upcoming elections have again raised the visibility of Turkey and Indonesia—and particularly their respective Muslim mega-cities, Istanbul and Jakarta—as locations seeing the rise of a new kind of Islamic urbanism, culture, and politics. Both countries see elections coming in 2014. What role do discussions of urban space and Islamic consumption play in the elections in both countries? What are the emerging problems and what can we learn from the parallels and differences of the cases?
Our one day conference seeks to juxtapose the cities of Istanbul and Jakarta, as well as other urban examples from Turkey and Indonesia, through an exploratory discussion of the ways in which Islamic values and ideology are linked to new forms of urban development and urban lifestyle that pose questions to existing global city paradigms. At the center of this lies the emergence of new, business oriented, conservative, Islamic middle classes who have provided the mass political movement behind the ruling powers. Our exploration will be both top down and bottom up: looking at urban development policies and the economic interests that drive them, their transformation of the city and the new divisions and contests they are producing; and at the new and fast developing consumer lifestyles created by these changes, linked to suburban housing, gated communities, shopping malls, private schooling and affluence—particularly as experienced with the changing place of women in these societies.
Participants include: - Asu Aksoy, Professor of Communication in the School of Art and Cultural Management, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
- Karen Barkey, Professor in the Departments of Sociology and History, Columbia University
- Ayşe Çavdar, Fellow, Global Prayers • Redemption and Liberation in the City
- Adrian Favell, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, affiliated to the Centre d’études européennes
- Carla Jones, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
- Sarah Moser, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, McGill University
- Saskia Schäfer, INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Hew Wai Weng, Research Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
The conference schedule and other details are available online atircpl.org.
This conference is sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Co-sponsored by the INTERACT Program, in conjunction with theWeatherhead East Asian Institute.
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