Nostalgia for the Modern - State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

Informationen zum Autor Esra Özyürek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the editor of Politics of Public Memory: Production and Consumption of the Past in Turkey. Klappentext An anthropological account of how Turkey, a predominantly Muslim state, has come to embrace republicanism in a way that, as in the United States, it has suffused private domestic life. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic analysis of the ways that! during the 1990s! Turkish citizens began to express nostalgia for the secularist and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Elderly Children of the Republic: The Public History in the Private Story 29 2. Wedded to the Republic: Displaying Transformations in Private Lives 65 3. Miniaturizing Ataturk: The Commodification of State Iconography 93 4. Hand in Hand with the Republic: Civilian Celebration of the Turkish State 125 5. Public Memory as Political Battleground: Kemalist and Islamist Versions of the Early Republic 151 Conclusion 178 Notes 183 References 199 Index 217

Product details

• Authors: Esra OEzyurek, Esra Ozyurek, Esra Özyürek
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2006
• EAN: 9780822338796
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3879-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Polen, Asien, Griechenland, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse