Strong State and Plural Society in Turkey

This book focuses on the strong state tradition as well as plural society that developed in Turkey. Indicating how an unitarian ideological public sphere has evolved into a pluralistic and civil public domain, it enriches the literature on modernization, democracy, civil society, public space and social movements.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Civil Society in the Ottoman Empire
Chapter 2: Liberalism and Civil Society as in the Case of Turkey
Chapter 3: Religion and Ethnicity in the Construction of the Official Ideology in the
Republican Turkey, Co-authored with Metin Toprak and Nasuh Uslu
Chapter 4: The Transformation of the Ideological Public Sphere in Turkey
Chapter 5: Civil Society Under a Strong State in Turkey, Co-authored with M. Lütfullah
Karaman
Chapter 6: Media and Alevi Identity in Turkey
Chapter 7: The Same Actors with Different Voices: Feminisms with Diverse Interests in
Turkey
Chapter 8: The Transformation of Feminism in Turkey: From Kemalist Modernization to
Postmodernism
Chapter 9: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Turkey
Chapter 10: Women and Local Democracy in Turkey

About the author

Ömer Çaha is professor of political science and teaches at Mardin Artuklu University.

Summary

This book focuses on the strong state tradition as well as plural society that developed in Turkey. Indicating how an unitarian ideological public sphere has evolved into a pluralistic and civil public domain, it enriches the literature on modernization, democracy, civil society, public space and social movements.

Product details

• Authors: Oemer Caha, Omer Caha, Ömer Çaha
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793648044
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-804-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Middle East, Turkey, Political structures: democracy, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Political structures / systems: democracy