Publications & Research

In Feeding Istanbul, I offer an account of how Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, has been provisioned since the early 19^th century. Tracing how the sovereign’s duty to provision the city and to protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, I argue that food politics, politics of urban provisioning in particular, should be at the front and center of the way we think our political communities and our relationship with the sovereign entities that govern our political community.