Turkey's Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century

by C. Kerslake (Editor), K. ïktem (Editor), P. Robins (Editor)

Overview

Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349313266
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/25/2010
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2010
Pages:	473
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

FEROZ AHMAD Professor and Head of the Department of History, Yeditepe University, Turkey HALIS AKDER Professor in the Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey—ŞAHIN ALPAY Professor of Politics, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey EMRE ARACI is a freelance composer, conductor and musicologist based in the UK YEŞIM ARAT Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University, Turkey SENCER AYATA Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey HENRI J. BARKLEY Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, USA MURAT BELGE Professor of Comparative Literature, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey SIBEL BOZDOǦAN Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, USA NÜKET ESEN Head of Department and Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University, Turkey BENJAMIN C. FORTNA Head of the Department of History and Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental& African Studies (SOAS), UK ZEHRA F. KABASAKAL ARAT Juanita and Jospeh Leff Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Purchase College of the State University of New York (SUNY), USA ERSIN KALAYCIOĞLU Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Sabancı University, USA IAN LESSER Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the UnitedStates ANDREW MANGO is a leading expert on Turkey. LEYLA NEYZI Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University, Turkey AYŞE ÖNCÜ Professor, Sabancı University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Turkey ELISABETH ÖZDALGA Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey JENNY WHITE Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, USA NURI YURDUSEV Professor of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Turkey ERIK-JAN ZÜRCHER Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

Synopsis: Tensions of Modernity: Looking Back to a Century of Nationalism; K.Öktem Introduction: Atatürk and Kemalism throughout the Twentieth Century; A.Mango PART I: THE STATE, ITS POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Ottoman Educational Legacy; B.Fortna Genç Kalemler and Turkish Nationalism; M.Belge Nation-Building and Feminism in Early Republican Turkey; Y.Arat ISLAM, THE MILITARY AND THE STATE Islam in the Service of the National and Pre-National State: The Instrumentalisation of Religion for Policy Goals by Turkish Regimes between 1880 and 1980; E-J.Zürcher Transformation of Sufi-Based Communities in Modern Turkey: The Nakşibendis, the Nurcus, and the Gülen Community; E.Özdalga Military and Politics in Turkey; F.Ahmad INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY The Turkish Grand National Assembly: New Challenges and Old Problems; E.Kalaycoğlu University Governance in Turkey;—.Turan Opportunities, Freedoms and Restrictions: Women and Employment in Turkey; Z.Kabasakal-Arat Poverty, Social Policy and Modernity in Turkey; S.Ayata Forgotten Campaigns: A History of Disease in Turkey; A.Halis Akder TURKEY AS INTERNATIONAL ACTOR Turkey and the Great Powers; H.Barkey The Evolution of Turkish National Security Strategy; I.Lesser Turkey's Engagement with Europe: A History of Mutual Management; N.Yurdusev PART II: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN FLUX THE REPUBLIC IN ARTS 'Westernisation against the West': Cultural Politics in the Early Turkish Republic; O.Koçak The Turkish Novel: From Model of Modernity to Puzzle of Post-Modernity; N.Esen The Turkish Music Reform: From Late Ottoman Times to the Early Republic; E.Aracı MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE Fashioning the Turkish Body Politic; A.Yumul 'Two Faces' of the Press in Turkey: The Role of the Media in Turkey's Modernisation and Democracy;—.Alpay Tensions between Rapid Commercialisation and Continued Ideological Control in the Turkish Media: The 1990s in Retrospect; A.Öncü SOCIAL AND URBAN HISTORIES From 'Cubic Houses' to SuburbanVillas: Residential Architecture and the Elites in Turkey; S.Bozdośan Tin Town to Fanatics: Turkey's Rural to Urban Migration from 1923 to the Present; J.White Oral History and Memory Studies in Turkey; L.Neyzi

Editorial Reviews

'...does exactly what it promises...[it] will undoubtedly become a textbook that will be addressed in many political science courses in Turkey, and around the globe... It must be stated that the volume is a valuable and inspiring contribution to the existing academic literature on Turkey and will surely find its place in the syllabi of aspiring scholars of Turkey.' - Turkish Policy Quarterly

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