Nation Building And Turkish Modernization

Author : Rasim Özgür Dönmez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149857940X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation-Building and Turkish Modernization written by Rasim Özgür Dönmez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the Turkish nation-building process from the Ottoman Empire to today, considering the role of Islam in this process. It gives insight into what has changed and not changed in this process. The book explains to readers that the Islamisation of the country is not a coincidence. Rather, Islamism has been grown symbiotically with the secular Republican regime through the organizational power of Islamic sects and with the assistance of the West. How we live as a nation today is not a revolution of Islamists, as some scholars have remarked. Rather, it is a continuation of the Turkish nation-building process with further Islamisation.

Author : Sibel Bozdogan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800186
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey written by Sibel Bozdogan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first two decades after W.W.II, social scientist heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a 'modernizing' nation in the Western mold. Images of unveiled women working next to clean-shaven men, healthy children in school uniforms, and downtown Ankara's modern architecture all proclaimed the country's success. Although Turkey's modernization began in the late Ottoman era, the establishment of the secular nation-state by Kemal Ataturk in 1923 marked the crystallization of an explicit, elite-driven 'project of modernity' that took its inspiration exclusively from the West. The essays in this book are the first attempt to examine the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning. As they examine both the Turkish project of modernity and its critics, the contributors offer a fresh, balanced understanding of dilemmas now facing not only Turkey but also many other parts of the Middle East and the world at large.

Author : Sibel Bozdoğan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295981529
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Nation Building written by Sibel Bozdoğan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural historian and philosopher Bozdogan began planning this study while she was researching her book on Turkish architect Sedad Hakki Eldem. Now based in Boston, she situates Turkish architecture during the early decades of the 20th century within the contexts of nationalist impulses and modern architecture in western culture generally. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Erik J. Zürcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771807X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building written by Erik J. Zürcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grand narrative of "The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building" is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik J. Zurcher shows that Kemal's 'ideological toolkit', which included positivism, militarism, nationalism and a state-centred world view, was shared by many other Young Turks. Authoritarian rule, a one-party state, a legal framework based on European principles, advanced European-style bureaucracy, financial administration, military and educational reforms and state-control of Islam, can all be found in the late Ottoman Empire, as can policies of demographic engineering. The book focuses on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization as well as on the attempts of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state. The decade of almost continuous warfare, ethnic conflict and forced migration between 1911 and 1922 forms the background to these attempts and accordingly occupies a central position in this volume. This is a powerful history reflecting and contributing to the latest research from a leading historian of modern Turkey. It is essential for all readers interested in the history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, and for an understanding of a key player in the politics of the Middle East and Europe.

Author : Özge Sezer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839461553
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forming the Modern Turkish Village written by Özge Sezer and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early republican period, architectural interventions in rural Turkey took the form of social engineering as part of the state's modernization and nationalization policies. Özge Sezer demonstrates how the state's particular programs had a powerful effect on rural life in the countryside. She examines the regime's goals and strategies for controlling the rural people through development projects and demographic shaping to create a strong Turkish identity and a loyal citizenry. The book outlines the implementation of new rural settlements, particularly following the 1934 Settlement Law, with a geographic focus on two cities - Izmir and Elazig - with varied socio-economic and ethnic standing in the state program.

Author : Alexandros Lamprou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857737317
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation-Building in Modern Turkey written by Alexandros Lamprou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime. During these years the state embarked upon an extensive reform programme of modernization and nation-building. The Kemalist reform movement has been extensively studied in its institutional dimensions as a state project of top-down reform; however, Nation-Building in Modern Turkey offers a fresh look at these formative years of the Turkish state. It studies modernist nation-building and state-society relations from a novel perspective through the study of the People's House, an institution aiming at the propagation of the modernist reforms to Turkey's urban population in the 1930s and 1940s. Using previously unpublished archival material and provincial publications, this work offers an alternative understanding of social change and state-society relations. In shifting the focus from the state as the fulcrum of change to the population's participation in the process, this book offers a 'peripheral' perspective of social change as it fashions a view from provincial towns. Focusing on everyday people, it explores their participation in and experience of the new habits and mixed-gender socialization practices the modernist state was introducing in the People's Houses, such as theatre, concerts, sports, dancing balls and village excursions. By analysing hundreds of petitions and complaint letters from the provinces, Alexandros Lamprou is able to examine the multiple ways ordinary people experienced, negotiated and resisted the reforms and to consider the ramifi cations of this process for the shaping of social and collective identities. Nation-Building in Modern Turkey will be essential reading for not only students and scholars of nation-building, socio-cultural change and state society-relations in Turkey, but also of the history, sociology, political science and anthropology of Turkey and the modern Middle East.

Author : Erik J. Zürcher
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781848852716
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building written by Erik J. Zürcher and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: demographic engineering. --

Author : Meltem Türköz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566566
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naming and Nation-building in Turkey written by Meltem Türköz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the Turkish Surname Law of 1934 was adopted and reframed in diverse social contexts at a time of top down nationalism. Through historical ethnography, the author explores the genesis of the law, its drafting in parliament, the Turkish Language Reform, and its reception. The project draws from an oral historical narrative, official parliamentary and registry documents, and popular media.

Author : Fuat E. Keyman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739160192
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remaking Turkey written by Fuat E. Keyman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population. Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possibility of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement. Turkey has demonstrated that as an alternative modernity and as a significant historical experience of the co-existence between Islam and democratic modernity in a secular political structure it could make an important contribution to the most needed democratic global governance for the creation of a secure, just and peaceful world. Remaking Turkey starts its investigation with an analysis of the Ottoman legacy, then focuses on identity-based conflicts and civil, economic, and global processes, all of which have brought about significant challenges to modernity and democracy in Turkey. The book concludes with an account of the recent changes and transformations that have given rise to the process of 'remaking Turkey.' In this way, editor E. Fuat Keyman presents a political theory-based approach to Turkish modernity and its recent changing formation, creating an original study of contemporary Turkey.

Author : Ugur Ümit Üngör
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199655227
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Turkey written by Ugur Ümit Üngör and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a novel perspective on the establishment of the Turkish nation state and highlights how the Young Turk regime, from 1913 to 1950, subjected Eastern Turkey to various forms of nationalist population policies aimed at ethnically homogenizing the region and including it in the Turkish nation state.