Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey
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Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey
(Publications on the Near East, University of Washington)
University of Washington Press, c1997
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Sibel Bozdogan and Resat Kasaba
Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities, Resat Kasaba
Whither the Project of Modernity? Turkey in the 1990s, Caglar Keyder
Modernization Policies and Islamist Politics in Turkey, Haldun Gulalp
Projects as Methodology: Some Thoughts on Modern Turkish Social Science, Serif Mardin
The Quest for the Islamic Self within the Context of Modernity, Nilufer Gole
The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey, Yesim Arat
Gendering the Modern: On Missing Dimensions in the Study of Turkish Modernity, Deniz Kandiyoti
The Predicament of Modernism in Turkish Architectural Culture: An Overview, Sibel Bozdoga
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Once There Was, Once There wasn't: National Monuments and Interpersonal Exchange, Michael E. Meeker
Silent Interruptions: Urban Encounters with Rural Turkey, Gulsum Baydar Nalbantoglu
Arabesk Culture: A Case of Modernization and Popular Identity, Ernest Gellner
The Turkish Option in Comparative Perspective, Roger Owen
Modernizing Projects in Middle Eastern Perspective, Joel S. Migdal
Finding the Meeting Ground of Fact and Fiction: Some Reflections on Turkish Modernization, Joel S. Migdal
List of Contributors
Index
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