Forming the Modern Turkish Village Nation Building and Modernization in Rural Turkey during the Early Republic Özge Sezer

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Sezer, Özge Technische Universität Berlin, Deutschland, Author.

Contributor:

ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, funder.

Series:

Histoire

Histoire 201

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture; History; Architecture; Turkey; Rural Modernism; Cultural History; Memory Culture; European History; Social History; History of the 20th Century;.

Local Subjects:

Culture; History; Architecture; Turkey; Rural Modernism; Cultural History; Memory Culture; European History; Social History; History of the 20th Century;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Özge Sezer, born in 1984, works as a post-doctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group 1913 at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg. She received her PhD from Technische Universität Berlin with a dissertation on modernist interventions in planning the rural settlements in early republican Turkey. She worked as an architect in preservation projects of historic buildings and archaeological sites, as well as an adjunct lecturer in history and theory of art and architecture. Her research focuses on architectures of rural communities, migration, and state and people relations in different architectural processes.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Concepts and Analogies

Nationalism: A Repercussion of Modernity

Making of the Territory, Border and Homeland

Legitimizing the Rural

Internal Colonization

Chapter 2 - Rural as the Realm for Turkish Modernism and Nation‐Building

Beginning of the Turkish Nationalism and "Anatolia"

Turkish Anatolia as the Homeland

Institutionalization to Legitimize the Turkish Anatolia

Chapter 3 - Spatial Agents of Rural Development and Conceptualization of the Village

Transportation in the Rural

Urbanization in the Rural

Conceptualization of the Village

Socio‐Cultural Planning

Economic Planning

Architectural Planning

Chapter 4 - Administering the Rural: Regulations for the Making of the Modern Turkish Village

Construction of Rural Settlements during the First Years of the Republic

The 1924 Village Law and the 1926 Settlement Law

Building the Rural Settlements during the 1920s

Building the Republican Villages

The 1934 Settlement Law

Villages of the 1934 Settlement Law

Chapter 5 - Turkification and Planning: New Settlements in Izmir and Elazığ

Building New Rural Settlements in Izmir

Three New Rural Settlements in the Torbalturkishı District of Izmir

Building the New Rural Settlements in Elazıg

Executing the Turkification Agenda and Four New Rural Settlements in Elaturkishzıg

The Clash of Turkification and Planning: An Interpretation of the Rural Settlements of the Early Republic

Conclusion

Literature

Appendix.

Notes:

Doctoral Thesis Technische Universität Berlin 2019

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Other Format:

Print version: Sezer, Özge Forming the Modern Turkish Village

ISBN:

9783839461556

3839461553

OCLC:

1351750400