Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey

Author: Sibel Bozdogan

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0295800186

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In the first two decades after W.W.II, social scientist heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a 'modernizing' nation in the Western mold. Images of unveiled women working next to clean-shaven men, healthy children in school uniforms, and downtown Ankara's modern architecture all proclaimed the country's success. Although Turkey's modernization began in the late Ottoman era, the establishment of the secular nation-state by Kemal Ataturk in 1923 marked the crystallization of an explicit, elite-driven 'project of modernity' that took its inspiration exclusively from the West. The essays in this book are the first attempt to examine the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning. As they examine both the Turkish project of modernity and its critics, the contributors offer a fresh, balanced understanding of dilemmas now facing not only Turkey but also many other parts of the Middle East and the world at large.

Ataturk And The Modernization Of Turkey
Ataturk And The Modernization Of Turkey

Author: Jacob M Landau

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-08

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0429725914

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey sixty years ago, dedicated himself to westernizing the Turkish state and its society and culture. In this first attempt to evaluate Ataturk's overall contribution to the modernization of Turkey, an international group of scholars examine a broad range of subjects, including the Kemalist

Hotels and Highways
Hotels and Highways

Author: Begüm Adalet

Publisher: Stanford Studies in Middle Eas

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781503605541

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Beastly politics : Dankwart Rustow and the Turkish model of modernization -- Questions of modernization : empathy and survey research -- Material encounters : experts, reports, and machines -- "It's not yours if you can't get there" : modern roads, mobile subjects -- The innkeepers of peace : hospitality and the Istanbul Hilton

Turkey's Modernization
Turkey's Modernization

Author: Arnold Reisman

Publisher: New Academia Publishing/ The Spring

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13:

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"This book . . . is the earliest comprehensive essay in the English language on the German imigris who, while taking refuge in Turkey after 1933, contributed to the modernization of its higher education, and to the implementation of research activities and social reforms."--Dr. Feza Gnergun, chair for History of Science, Istanbul University.

Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey
Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey

Author: Robert E. Ward

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1400879590

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Contributors compare and analyze the modernization experiences of Japan and Turkey: John Whitney Hall, Halil Inalcik, Robert A. Scalapino, Roderic H. Davison, William W. Lockwood, Peter F. Sugar, R.P. Dore, Frederick W. Frey, Shuichi Kato, Kemal H. Karpat, Masamichi Inoki, Richard L. Chambers, Roger P. Hackett, Dankwart A. Rustow, Nobutaka Ike, and Arif T. Payaslioglu. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union
Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union

Author: Vahram Ter-Matevosyan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3319974033

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This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives. It discusses major problems in the existing interpretations of the topic and how the incorporation of Soviet perspectives enriches the historiography and our understanding of that ideology. To address these questions, the book looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s. The research also focuses on perspectives from abroad by observing how republican Turkey and particularly its founding ideology were viewed and interpreted by Soviet observers. Paying more attention to the diplomatic, geopolitical, and economic complexities of Turkish-Soviet relations, scholars have rarely problematized those perceptions of Turkish ideological transformations. Looking at various phases of Soviet attitudes towards Kemalism and its manifestations through the lenses of Communist leaders, party functionaries, diplomats and scholars, the book illuminates the underlying dynamics of Soviet interpretations.

The Power of the People
The Power of the People

Author: Murat Metinsoy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 131651546X

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A fresh interpretation of the foundation of modern Turkey demonstrating the crucial role of ordinary people under Atatürk in the 1920s and 30s.

Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey
Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey

Author: Andrew Davison

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780300069365

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In this new interpretation of the modernisation & secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis, illuminating the complex relations between religion & politics in post-Ottoman Turkey.

Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity
Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity

Author: C. Kerslake

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 023027739X

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Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated.

Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey

Author: Ståle Knudsen

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781845454401

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Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Fishing, science and other ways of knowing and relating to fish and the sea are analyzed as particular ways of life conditioned by history, ideology and daily practice. The approach adopted here allows for a broader analysis of the role knowledge plays in the management of common pool resources (CPR) than is provided in much of the contemporary CPR debate that tends to have a somewhat narrow focus on institutions and rules. By contrast, the author argues that also local knowledge and the larger historical and ideological context of production, as manifest in state modernization policies and consumption patterns, should be taken into account when trying to explain the current management regime in Turkish Black Sea fisheries.