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Strong state and plural society in Turkey / Omer Caha.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caha, Omer, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil society--Turkey.
- Civil society.
- Feminism--Turkey.
- Feminism.
- Social movements--Turkey.
- Social movements.
- Political culture--Turkey.
- Political culture.
- Politics and government.
- Turkey--Politics and government.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- This book focuses on the strong state tradition as well as plural society that developed in Turkey. Indicating how an unitarian ideological public sphere has evolved into a pluralistic and civil public domain, it enriches the literature on modernization, democracy, civil society, public space and social movements.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- References
- Chapter 1: Civil Society in the Ottoman Empire1
- The Structure of the Central Authority in the Ottoman Empire
- Political Culture in the Ottoman Empire
- Modernization Attempts in the Ottoman Empire
- Conclusion
- Note
- Chapter 2: Liberalism and Civil Society as in the Case of Turkey1
- Liberalism and Civil Society
- Liberalism and Civil Society in Turkey
- Chapter 3: Religion and Ethnicity in the Construction of the Official Ideology in Republican Turkey1: Coauthored with Metin Toprak and Nasuh Uslu
- Religion and Ethnicity in the Official Ideology: From Past to the Present
- The Official Ideology in Terms of Ethnicity and Religion
- Kurdish Question: Denial, Confession, Impotency
- Party Dissolutions and the Revenge of Kemalist Elites
- The Future of Turkish Democracy
- Chapter 4: The Transformation of the Ideological Public Sphere in Turkey1
- The Transformation of the Private into the Public
- From Public to the Publics
- Turkey between Democratic and Ideological Public Spheres
- Chapter 5: Civil Society under a Strong State in Turkey1: Coauthored with M. Lütfullah Karaman
- A Preliminary Note on the Preconditions of Civil Society
- A Short Portrayal of Civil Society in Turkey
- Obstacles to the Development of Civil Society in Turkey
- Chapter 6: Media and Alevi Identity in Turkey1
- Alevism and Alevi Identity
- The Influence of Media over the Alevi Identity
- The Revival of Alevi Identity in the Post-1980s
- Chapter 7: The Same Actors with Different Voices: Feminisms with Diverse Interests in Turkey1
- The Development of Feminism in Turkey
- References.
- Chapter 8: The Transformation of Feminism in Turkey: From Kemalist Modernism to Postmodernism1
- Feminism from the Street Protests to the Institutional Works
- Feminist Publications in the Post-1990s: From Monolithic Tone to Diverse Voices
- Feminism in the Academia: Feminists' Meeting with Sociological Reality
- The Journey of Feminists from Kemalist Modernism to Postmodernism
- Chapter 9: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Turkey1
- Third-Wave Feminism: A Non-White Western Women's Movement
- The Political Background of the Kurdish Women's Movement
- Kurdish Women's Magazines and the Ethnic Voice of Feminism
- A Movement against the Dual-Victimization of Women
- Reactions to the Essentialist Understanding of Women
- Kurdish Feminism: A Women's Movement with a Dual Identity
- Chapter 10: Women and Local Democracy in Turkey1
- Local Democracy and Political Participation
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-2676-7
- 1-7936-4805-0
- OCLC:
- 1250432674
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