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List of contents
1. Anxious Nation and Its Ambivalent Westernism; Part I. Kemalism and its Desired, Undesired, Tolerated Citizens: 2. The Rise and Consolidation of the Kemalist Hegemony; 3. Kemalism's Desired Citizens; 4. Kemalism's Undesired Citizens; 5. Creating Kemalism's Tolerated Citizens via Diyanet; Part II. Emergence of the Counter-Hegemony: Erdöanism: 6. Turkish Islamism and the Emergence of Erdöanist Authoritarianism; 7. What is Erdöanism?; Part III. Creating Erdöanism's Desired Citizens via Popular Culture and Education: 8. Erdöanism's Desired Citizen; 9. Creating Erdöanism's Desired Citizens via Popular Culture; 10. Creating Erdöanism's Desired Citizens via Education; Part IV. Erdöanism's Undesired Citizens: 11. Erdöanism's Undesired Citizens; Part V. Creating Erdöanism's Tolerated Citizens via Diyanet: 12. Creating Erdöanism's Tolerated Citizens via Diyanet; 13. The Use of Friday Sermons in Creating Erdöanism's Tolerated Citizens; 14. The Future of Erdöan's Nation.
About the author
Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne where his work focuses on Islam-state-society-law relations and ethnic-religious-political identities in Turkey, Australia, the UK and the USA. He is the author of Muslim Laws, Politics and Society in Modern Nation States: Dynamic Legal Pluralisms in England, Turkey and Pakistan (2005) amongst numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is also a public intellectual, and can be found on Twitter @ihsanylmz.
Summary
A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects in Turkey under both Ataturk and Erdogan, concentrating on the concept of the desired, undesired and tolerated citizen. This shows how resulting historical traumas, victimhood, insecurities, anxieties, and fears have had influenced both state and society throughout these different periods.
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'Creating the Desired Citizen methodically dissects the social engineering efforts to craft 'ideal citizens' for what Ihsan Yilmaz calls 'Erdoganism'. This original and enlightening work is an important contribution, furthering our understanding of the social and cultural transformation of Turkey under the AKP.' Paul Kubicek, Oakland University
