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2 - Order Invisible

from Part I - Nocturnal Realities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Avner Wishnitzer
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Tel-Aviv University
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Seeking to limit potentially invisible, incontrollable activity, official decrees, neighborhood communities, guilds, and moralists together created a powerful discourse that stigmatized the night, and a set of regulations aimed to impose visibility on those who nevertheless went out after dark. Yet, with vision impaired, the night continued to pose a challenge to urban order, and the authorities at times applied harsh punitive measures in order to project fear. These demonstrations of formal violence were meant to somewhat compensate for the rulers’ actually rather precarious control over the dark city.

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As Night Falls
Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark
, pp. 46 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Order Invisible
  • Avner Wishnitzer, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: As Night Falls
  • Online publication: 27 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108933131.005
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  • Order Invisible
  • Avner Wishnitzer, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: As Night Falls
  • Online publication: 27 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108933131.005
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  • Order Invisible
  • Avner Wishnitzer, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book: As Night Falls
  • Online publication: 27 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108933131.005
Available formats
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