Remaking Turkey
Title | Remaking Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | Emin Fuat Keyman |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780739118153 |
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population. Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possibility of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement. Turkey has demonstrated that as an alternative modernity and as a significant historical experience of the co-existence between Islam and democratic modernity in a secular political structure it could make an important contribution to the most needed democratic global governance for the creation of a secure, just and peaceful world. Remaking Turkey starts its investigation with an analysis of the Ottoman legacy, then focuses on identity-based conflicts and civil, economic, and global processes, all of which have brought about significant challenges to modernity and democracy in Turkey. The book concludes with an account of the recent changes and transformations that have given rise to the process of "remaking Turkey." In this way, editor E. Fuat Keyman presents a political theory-based approach to Turkish modernity and its recent changing formation, creating an original study of contemporary Turkey.
The Remaking of Republican Turkey
Title | The Remaking of Republican Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Danforth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2021-06-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108833241 |
Drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Nicholas L. Danforth synthesizes the political, cultural, diplomatic and intellectual history of mid-century Turkey to explore how Turkey first became a democracy and Western ally in the 1950s and why this is changing today.
The Remaking of Republican Turkey
Title | The Remaking of Republican Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Danforth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2021-06-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108976654 |
Between 1945 and 1960, the birth of a multi-party democracy and NATO membership radically transformed Turkey's foreign relations and domestic politics. As Turkish politicians, intellectuals and voters rethought their country's relationship with its past and its future to facilitate democratization, a new alliance with the United States was formed. In this book, Nicholas L. Danforth demonstrates how these transformations helped consolidate a consensus on the nature of Turkish modernity that continues to shape current political and cultural debates. He reveals the surprisingly nuanced and often paradoxical ways that both secular modernizers and their Islamist critics deployed Turkey's famous clichés about East and West, as well as tradition and modernity, to advance their agendas. By drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Danforth offers a tour de force exploration of the relationship between democracy, diplomacy, modernity, Westernization, Ottoman historiography and religion in mid-century Turkey.
Remaking Identities
Title | Remaking Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Lieberman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2013-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442213957 |
For centuries conquerors, missionaries, and political movements acting in the name of a single god, nation, or race have sought to remake human identities. Tracing the rise of exclusive forms of identity over the past 1500 years, this innovative book explores both the creation and destruction of exclusive identities, including those based on nationalism and monotheistic religion. Benjamin Lieberman focuses on two critical phases of world history: the age of holy war and conversion, and the age of nationalism and racism. His cases include the rise of Islam, the expansion of medieval Christianity, Spanish conquests in the Americas, Muslim expansion in India, settler expansion in North America, nationalist cleansing in modern Europe and Asia, and Nazi Germany’s efforts to build a racial empire. He convincingly shows that efforts to transplant and expand new identities have paradoxically generated long periods of both stability and explosive violence that remade the human landscape around the world.
The New Turkey and Its Discontents
Title | The New Turkey and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Simon A. Waldman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190668377 |
Assesses social, religious and political polarisation under the AKP of Recep Erdogan and the likely consequences for Turkey's evolution
Exploring Turkish Cultures
Title | Exploring Turkish Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Laurence Raw |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2011-01-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443827584 |
This groundbreaking series of essays offers new insights into Turkish cultures both past and present. Moving beyond the traditional binaries of east/west, Islam/secularism, and Europe/Asia, the book contains a variety of perspectives on contemporary Turkey, from actors, directors, critics and other major cultural figures. The book tries to situate these opinions in context by looking at how such perspectives are employed in different cultural spheres—education, theatre, politics and the like. Exploring Turkish Cultures contains the first major interviews published in English with prominent public figures, including actors Türkân Şoray, Genco Erkal and Nesrin Kazankaya. Other figures interviewed include film directors Derviş Zaim and documentary filmmakers Ben Hopkins, Pelin Esmer and Özgür Doğan. An extended interview with the author, translator and academic Talât Halman rounds off the interview section. Complementing these interviews are a series of essays on major Turkish films and theatrical productions, both past and present. Combining historical analysis, comment and evaluation from an author who has spent two decades living in Turkey, Exploring Turkish Cultures represents a major contribution to contemporary Turkish studies.
The Remaking of Istanbul
Title | The Remaking of Istanbul PDF eBook |
Author | Zeynep Çelik |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780520082397 |
Zeynep elik examines the changing face of Istanbul during the period when European cultural and economic influence intensified, integrating architectural analysis with discussion of broader issues of urban design and historical change. Zeynep elik examines the changing face of Istanbul during the period when European cultural and economic influence intensified, integrating architectural analysis with discussion of broader issues of urban design and historical change.