Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (Publications on the Near East, University of Washington)

✍ Scribed by Sibel Bozdogan, Resat Kasaba

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

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Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey......Page 1
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: About the Authors......Page 4
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey......Page 5
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Acknowledgements......Page 6
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 1......Page 7
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Contributors......Page 15
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 2......Page 17
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 3......Page 34
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 4......Page 46
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 5......Page 56
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 6......Page 69
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 7......Page 80
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 8......Page 95
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 9......Page 110
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 10......Page 131
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 11......Page 158
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 12......Page 173
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 13......Page 190
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 14......Page 199
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey: Chapter 15......Page 204