Hotels and highways : the construction of modernization theory in Cold War Turkey / Begüm Adalet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adalet, Begüm, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Turkey--History--20th century.

Economic development.

Economic assistance, American--Turkey--History--20th century.

Economic assistance, American.

Social sciences.

Philosophy.

History.

Relations.

Social change.

Economic conditions.

Turkey--Economic conditions--20th century.

Turkey.

Social change--Turkey--History--20th century.

Turkey--Relations--United States.

United States--Relations--Turkey.

United States.

Social sciences--United States--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Economic history.

International relations.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 286 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American visions of capitalist modernity. Among the most critical tools in the U.S.'s ideological arsenal was modernization theory, and Turkey emerged as a vital test case for the construction and validation of developmental thought and practice. With this book, Begüm Adalet reveals how Turkey became both the archetypal model of modernization and an active partner for its enactment. Through her analysis of the flow of aid money and expertise between the U.S. and Turkey, the planning of the American-funded Turkish highway network, and the development of the Turkish tourism industry, Adalet also highlights how "problems of knowledge" are fundamentally entwined with "problems of the political order": social scientific theories are produced in material spaces, through uncertain encounters between transnational actors and policy networks. In tracking the growth and transmission of modernization as a theory and in practice in Turkey, Hotels and Highways offers not only a specific history of a postwar development model that continues to influence our world, but a widely relevant consideration of how theoretical debates take shape in concrete situations.

Contents:

Beastly politics : Dankwart Rustow and the Turkish model of modernization

Questions of modernization : empathy and survey research

Material encounters : experts, reports, and machines

"It's not yours if you can't get there" : modern roads, mobile subjects

The innkeepers of peace : hospitality and the Istanbul Hilton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Adalet, Begüm. Hotels and highways.

ISBN:

9781503605541

150360554X

9781503604292

1503604292

OCLC:

999439973