Politics and the peasantry in post-war Turkey : social history, culture and modernization / Sinan Yildirmaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yildirmaz, Sinan, author.

Series:

Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 46.

Library of Ottoman studies ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Turkey--History--20th century.

Peasants.

Peasants--Turkey--Social conditions--20th century.

Nation-building--Turkey--History--20th century.

Nation-building.

Turkey--History--1918-1960.

Turkey.

Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 294 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Summary:

"When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the material culture of this peasantry - their speeches, social club documents, art and diaries - and reveals a rich social and political life which flowered after the Second World War. Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey is the first history to show how the changing peasantry laid the foundations for the modern Turkish state, and will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Ottoman Empire and of the History of Modern Turkey."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Chapter

I. INTRODUCTION

II. PEASANTS IN THEORY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL

SOCIOLOGY IN TURKEY

Modernization Theory and the Peasantry

The Development of "Rural Sociology" in Turkey

III. PEASANTS MOVING TOWARDS CITIES: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RURAL STRUCTURE, RURAL MIGRATION AND THE GECEKONDU

The Change in Economic Policies in the Post-War Period Capitalism, Modernization and Urbanization

The Land Reform Law, the Marshall Plan, the Smallholder Peasantry and Migration

The Reasons for the Rural Migration, or Is It Possible to Create a Stereotype in the Analysis of the Rural Migration?

The Peasants in the Cities and the Invention of the "Gecekondu"

IV. PEASANTRY AS AN ACTIVE COMPONENT OF POLITICS

The Arslanköy Case and the Development of the Rule of Law

The Peasants and Politics during the DP Government

The Village Coffeehouse as a Political Space

The Peasants and Anti-Communism

V. THE MAKING OF THE "VILLAGE LITERATURE"

Defining the Village Literature

History in the Village Literature

The Making of the Village Literature Canon

From the "Reality" of the Literature to the "Reality" of the Country

VI. CONCLUSION.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350987548

1350987549

9781786720726

1786720728

OCLC:

967226372