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The Routledge handbook on contemporary Turkey / edited by Joost Jongerden.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turkey--Social conditions--20th century.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (535 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]
- Summary:
- This Handbook discusses the new political and social realities in Turkey from a range of perspectives, both emphasizing change as well as continuities. Contextualizing recent developments, the chapters, written by experts in their fields, combine analytical depth with a broad overview.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Bibliography
- 2 Politics and Ideology: Party and Opposition in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period
- Introduction
- The Hamidian Era and the Young Ottomans
- Union and Progress, Order and Collapse: The Young Turks
- Political Contestation at the Dawn of the Turkish Republic
- Ismet Inönü: Ideological Clashes and the Transition to the Multiparty System
- Notes
- 3 Violence Against the Kurds in the Turkish Republic
- The Young Turk Era, 1913-1950
- The 1938 Dersim Genocide
- The "1990s": A New Phase of Turkish State Violence
- Old Habits, New Methods: Urban Destruction in 2015-2016
- Conclusion
- 4 Remaking Turkey's Polity and Cultural Landscapes
- Millet, the Mutation of a Social Category
- Constructing the Other in Public Sphere
- Nationalizing Assets
- Citizens With a Kinstate
- Reckonings
- Postscript
- The Refugees of the Balkan Wars and the First World War
- The Refugees From the Asia Minor Catastrophe (1922)
- Urban Settlements
- Rural Settlements
- When Greece Became Greek
- 6 The Making of a National City: From Mezre to Elaziğ
- El-aziz: Emergence of a Modern Imperial Town
- Mezre: a Hamlet of Landlords
- Mamuretülaziz: Mezre Becoming a Suburban Town, 1850s-1870s
- Urban Transformation in Elaziz, 1880s-1890s
- From Elaziz to Elazig: Creating a National City
- Nationalization of the City and Its Discontents, 1900s-1920s
- The Rise of a Turkish Cultural Fortress, 1930s
- Between Abandonment and Development, 1940s-1970s
- Afterword
- References.
- 7 Populism in Turkey: From a Political Style to a Model for Global Politics?
- "The People Discovered": Populism in the Late Ottoman Empire
- "The People Wanted": Populism in the Single-Party Era (1923-1946)
- "The People Exalted": the Populism of the 1950s
- "The People Polarized": Mr Erdogan's Neopopulism as a Model for Global Politics?
- References
- 8 Turkish Secular Nationalism as Religion
- Religious Foundation of the Secular Turkish Republic
- Imagined Nation
- The Tactics of Emotions Between Secular and Religious
- Religious Nationalism and Fear
- 9 Parties and Politics in Turkey
- Specific Links to State and Society
- Turkish Parties' Links With Society
- The Difficulty of Identifying Stable Party Bases
- Specific Ties to Society: Factionalism and Clientelism
- Organizational Features and the Centralization of Power
- Links With the State
- Strong Links With the State Through the Capture of Public Resources
- The Enduring Interpenetration Between the State and Party in Office (1923-1960)
- The Deneutralization of the State
- A High-Risk Political Game With Limited Alternation in Office
- Limited Alternation in Office
- Unstable Coalitions
- A High-Risk Political Contest
- 3. AKP Rule: a New Era?
- Unceasing Consolidation in Power
- Tight Control Over Huge and Diverse Constituencies
- Monopolization of State Resources
- Conclusion: Towards a Change in the Role of Parties in Politics
- 10 Civil-Military Relations in Turkey: Patterns and Possibilities
- What Was the Role of the Army?
- How Did the Power of the Military Decline?
- Turkey's Lost Decade
- 11 Coups and State Formation in Turkey
- Introduction.
- A Brief History of Military Interventions in Turkey
- The 15 July 2016 Coup Attempt: Competing Narratives
- A 'gift From God': But to What End and for Whom?
- Acknowledgements
- 12 Constitutions and Political Systems
- Drift Towards Authoritarianism
- The Constitutional Amendment of 2017
- The System of Government
- Separation of Powers: Legislative-executive Relations
- The Judiciary
- Competitive Authoritarianism and Abusive Constitutionalism
- 13 Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey Under the AKP Rule
- AKP's Path to National Power
- Democratic Backsliding Under the AKP Rule
- Rising Competitive Authoritarianism
- Acknowledgement
- 14 Politics of Truth and Post-Truth
- Truly a New Era?
- The Historical Trajectory
- The AKP and Truth
- Politics of Truth as Usual
- The Tripod of Post-Truth Politics
- 15 Kurdish Politics in Turkey
- The Emergence of the Kurdish National Movement in Turkey
- The Pro-Kurdish Political Parties in Turkey
- A New Violent Phase in the Conflict: 2015-present
- 16 Turkish Nationalism and Patriarchy
- Regime Crisis, Crisis Regime
- From TIS to Continuous National Liberation War
- Nationalisms and Gender Regimes - Competing Modes of Patriarchy?
- Concluding Remarks
- 17 Youth Politics
- Episode 1: Apathy, Nationalism, and Cynicism - Narratives of Politics in Post-1980
- Episode 2: From Cynicism to Protest
- Episode 3: The AKP's Youth Politics
- 18 Tracing the Reverse History of Homosexuality From the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey: From Tolerance to ...
- Homosexuality in the Ottoman Empire: Tolerance
- Reversal of Trends: Intolerance
- Contemporary Attitudes: Continued Intolerance
- 19 Mad Patriots: Militarized Masculinities and Nation-Building in Contemporary Turkish Novels
- Every Turk is Born as a Soldier!
- Not Every Turk is Born as a Soldier!
- Criticizing Militarized Masculinities in the Post-Kemalist Bildung
- 20 Contemporary Cinema of Turkey: Being and Becoming
- The Beginning
- The Birth of a Populist Cinema
- Islamist Agenda
- Decline and Rebirth
- Gendered Images
- 'The Literature of the Other'
- New Cinema of Turkey
- Resistance Builds Its Own Narratives
- Cinema Beyond Borders
- 21 Musical Diversity and the Struggle for Identities
- The Emergence of Public Music Life
- Music in the Republic of Turkey
- Urbanisation, Migration and Popular Music
- Musical Diversity and the Struggle for Musical Identities
- 22 The Political Economy of Turkey in the Last Two Centuries
- Introduction: Ottoman Economic and Political Structure
- Emergence and Development of the Turkish Republic
- After 1980
- After 2001
- 23 The Kurdish Question in Contemporary Turkey: A Political Economy Perspective
- Neoliberal Turkey
- Persistence of Regional Disparities in Neoliberal Turkey
- Derisory Public and Private Investments
- GAP: Developmentalism From Above
- 24 "Concrete" Steps Toward Modernization: Dam-, State-, and Nation-Building in Southeastern Turkey
- Dams, State-Building, and State-Building,-Nation-Building
- Damming the Euphrates and Tigris.
- Dams as the Symbols of Modernization, Turkishness, and "Westernness"
- 25 Political Economy of Environmental Conflicts in Turkey: From the Bergama Resistance to the Gezi Protests and Beyond
- Neoliberalization and the Rise of Environmental Conflicts
- From Minerals to Energy and Beyond
- Infrastructural Bridge to Urban Conflicts
- Environmentalizing Politics
- 26 Agriculture and Rural Life in Turkey
- Period I: 1923-19803
- Period II: Post-1980
- Privatisations
- Trends
- 27 The Layers of an Onion: Food and Nation in Turkey
- 'Just Food'
- 'Oranin Nesi Meshur?': the Banal Politics of Localism
- National Damages
- The Layers of an Onion: Peeling Food Inflation
- 28 Migration From Rural Anatolia to Metropolitan Cities
- Rural-to-urban Migration: When, Why, and How?
- Informality in the City
- Migrants' Support Mechanisms
- The Neoliberal Regime
- Political Repression
- 29 The Architecture of Dispossession, Disaster, and Emergency in Urban Turkey
- Emergency and Democracy
- The Architecture of Emergency/democracy in Mid-2010s Turkey
- The Architecture of Dispossession, Disaster, and Emergency
- 30 Civilizing Space: Addressing Disorder in Rural and Urban Landscapes
- Inconvenience
- The Rural as Problem
- Negative Villages and Negative People
- Urban Transformation
- Looking Backward
- 31 Social Movements and Urban Activism in Turkey
- Grounding Social Movement Theory
- The First Social Movement in Turkey
- Social Movements in Turkey Today
- Bibliography.
- 32 Religious Movements in Turkey.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-26403-8
- 0-429-55906-2
- 9780429264030
- OCLC:
- 1257084001
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