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Ways to explore Lefkosia /Lefkosha/ Nicosia

Ways to explore Lefkosia /Lefkosha/ Nicosia. Yiannis Papadakis, University of Cyprus. Sources. Written Internet People Maps. Multiple Cities. Basic social divisions: age, gender, class, ethnicity, political affiliation, religion… other? Boundaries A global world condensed

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Ways to explore Lefkosia /Lefkosha/ Nicosia

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  1. Ways to explore Lefkosia/Lefkosha/Nicosia Yiannis Papadakis, University of Cyprus

  2. Sources • Written • Internet • People • Maps

  3. Multiple Cities • Basic social divisions: age, gender, class, ethnicity, political affiliation, religion… other? • Boundaries • A global world condensed • Perspectives: from the top, from below, from the margins • Different epochs: a palimpset

  4. My Favourite Highlights • Two Museums of National Struggle • The UN story • One or two cities? (living in different chronotopes)

  5. Kinds of stories • All narratives are political because all involve choice, viewpoint(s), emphases and omissions. • The proper, official • The hidden (e.g. The House of Parliament) • The seedy (e.g. the night story) • The dissenting (spaces of dissent, symbols of dissent)

  6. A good story • Beginning – middle – end • Elements: suspense, surprise, humour • Interaction • Different levels • Different kinds of stories: didactic, closed, open (from different perspectives) A good story is what you are interested and enthusiastic about, so create your own personal story according to your own interestsand passions!

  7. A short list of possible written sources • Guide books (Lonely Planet etc.) • Writings on the city (de Certau “Walking in the City”, Simmel “The Stranger” and “The Metropolis and Modern Life”) • Books on the history of Nicosia (Αγνή Μιχαηλίδου«Χώρα, Η Παλιά Λευκωσία», HashmetGurkan “DunkuveBugunkuLefkosha), KevorkKeshishian “Nicosia: Capital on Cyprus Then and Now”) • Books on monuments (Rita Severis “Nicosia, Monuments and Memories”, George Jeffrey “A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus”) • Sociological/Anthropological Studies (Papadakis “Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide”, Calotychos/Papadakis/ Hocknell 1998 Special Issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies on Nicosia, Attalides “Social Change and Urbanisation in Cyprus: A Case Study of Nicosia”)

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