Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey / Sener Aktürk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aktürk, Sener, author.

Series:

Problems of international politics.

Problems of international politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic groups--Government policy--Germany.

Ethnic groups.

Ethnicity--Political aspects--Germany.

Ethnicity.

Ethnic groups--Government policy--Russia (Federation).

Ethnicity--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).

Ethnic groups--Government policy--Turkey.

Ethnicity--Political aspects--Turkey.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Germany.

Russia (Federation)--Ethnic relations.

Russia (Federation).

Turkey--Ethnic relations.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Regimes of Ethnicity & Nationhood in Germany, Russia, & Turkey

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohibition on the public use of minority languages, all implemented during the early twentieth century, underpinned the definition of nationhood in these countries. Despite many challenges from political and societal actors, these policies did not change for many decades, until around the turn of the twenty-first century, when Russia removed ethnicity from the internal passport, Germany changed its citizenship law and Turkish public television began broadcasting in minority languages. Using a new typology of 'regimes of ethnicity' and a close study of primary documents and numerous interviews, Sener Akturk argues that the coincidence of three key factors - counterelites, new discourses and hegemonic majorities - explains successful change in state policies toward ethnicity.

Contents:

Regimes of ethnicity: comparative analysis of Germany, Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey

The challenges to the monoethnic regime in Germany, 1955

1982

The construction of an assimilationist discourse and political hegemony: transition from a monoethnic to an antiethnic regime in Germany, 1982

2000

Challenges to the ethnicity regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish demands for recognition, 1923

1980

From social democracy to Islamic multiculturalism: failed and successful attempts to reform the ethnicity regime in Turkey, 1980

2009

The nation that wasn't there? Sovetskii Narod discourse, nation-building, and passport ethnicity, 1953

1983

Ethnic diversity and state-building in post-Soviet Russia: removal of ethnicity from the internal passport and its aftermath, 1992

2008

Dynamics of persistence and change in ethnicity regimes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-85405-4

1-107-23575-8

1-139-10889-1

1-139-84023-1

1-107-25445-0

1-139-84497-0

1-139-84261-7

1-283-81807-8

1-139-84142-4

OCLC:

818883374