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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.
List 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 Nak?ibendis, 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.Kalayc?o?lu 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.Arac? 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.Bozdo?an 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
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
?AHIN ALPAY Professor of Politics, Bahçe?ehir University, Turkey
EMRE ARACI is a freelance composer, conductor and musicologist based in the UK
YE?IM ARAT Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bo?aziçi 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 BOZDO?AN Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, USA
NÜKET ESEN Head of Department and Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at Bo?aziçi 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 KALAYCIO?LU Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Sabanc? 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, Sabanc? University, Turkey
AY?E ÖNCÜ Professor, Sabanc? 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
Summary
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.
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'...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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'...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
