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Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of "Cosmopolitan" Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)This paper analyses the (re)production of Turkey's liminal-hybrid representations through a combination of sports and music celebrity interventions on a specific landmark. It shows that a country's representations can be reinforced and reaffirmed with the help of celebrities performing their talent on landmarks such as the Bosphorus Bridge and (in some cases) placing another landmark - Ortakoy Mosque - in the backdrop. Combined with the role of celebrities, these two landmarks that have come to ...