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  • 14 - Times Alla Turca E Franga

  • from Part IV - History and Duration: Making Things Last, Enduring Politics and Organizing
  • Edited by François-Xavier de Vaujany, Universite Paris Dauphine-PSL, Robin Holt, Copenhagen Business School, Albane Grandazzi, Grenoble Ecole de Management
  • Book:
    Organization as Time
    Published online:
    22 June 2023
    Print publication:
    06 July 2023, pp 297-328

  • Summary

    The study explores the materiality of clock towers to understand how temporal order was constructed and changed in the late Ottoman Empire. It takes a microhistorical perspective with a critical realist lens. Specifically, it focuses on the 24 clock towers constructed between 1876 and 1909 outside Istanbul, remaining within the national borders of Turkey. In addition, the study has developed case studies of three “exceptional typical” clock towers at Kastamonu, Çorum, and Izmir. Results indicate that these clock towers were symbols of continuous and hybridized changes in the temporal construction of Ottoman societies. The study illustrates how alternative time conceptions can exist, combine, and transform autonomously, constituting a polychronous context. In addition to the Ottoman state, the local elite was central in negotiating and contesting the diffusion of modernity into their realms. The study contributes to understanding the politics of time from a non-industrialized and non-Western historical context.