Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey - The Myth of Toleration

Zusatztext CHOICE REVIEW January 2014 "With this book Ayhan Kaya elevates the discussion around modernization and diversity in Turkey to a new level." - Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Germany "Pathbreaking and original...a text that will be the essential food for thought. Highly recommended!" - Fuat Keyman, Istanbul Policy Centre, Sabanci University, Turkey "This is an insightful and critical book on recent socio-political developments in Turkey and on Turkey's path towards EU membership." -Anna Triandafyllidou, European University Institute, Italy "This book will remain an essential source for all those who wish to take a fresh look at the Turkish experiment from the days of the Republic through the transformative rule of the AKP." - Soli Özel, Kadir Has University, Turkey Informationen zum Autor Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair for European Politics of Interculturalism, Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. His previous book was Islam, Migration and Integration: The Age of Securitization (Palgrave, 2012). Klappentext The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process, which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that culturalized what is social and political. Zusammenfassung The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey! and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process! which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that culturalized what is social and political. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Multiple Modernities and Turkish Modernity: A Continuous Journey of Europeanization 2. Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Turkey 3. Kurdish Question: A Hundred Years of Solitude 4. AKP's Alevi Initiative: Limits of Tolerance 5. Headscarf Issue 6. Nation, Europe and Modernity: Social Critic of the 'Holy Trinity' (Sunni-Muslim Turk)...

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• Autori: A Kaya, A. Kaya, Ayhan Kaya
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349336166
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33616-6
• Pagine: 273
• Serie: Identities and Modernities in Europe; Identities and Modernities in; Identities and Modernities in Europe
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; B, Ethnic Studies, Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Europe, Cultural Studies, European Politics, Political Science, Political Sociology, biotechnology, European Union, Politics & government, Ethnicity, EU (European Union), Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Ethnicity Studies, European Union Politics, Europe—Politics and government, Religion and sociology, Ethnology—Europe, European Culture, Social Aspects of Religion, argue;discourse;Europe;Nation;rhetoric;tolerance