Turkey Beyond Nationalism: Towards Post-Nationalist Identities (International Library of Twentieth Century History)

✍ Scribed by Hans-Lukas Kieser

• Publisher: I. B. Tauris
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Turkey Beyond Nationalism explores the historical impact, both gains and setbacks, of Turkish nationalism in the 20th century and examines the conditions which have contributed to its evolution towards post-nationalism. The development of a liberal, multicultural society is particularly topical in view of Turkey's membership of the EU, as this has proved to be a vehicle of post-nationalist transformation in Turkey in the last few years. By thoroughly investigating the nationalist fabric of modern Turkey in the first half of the 20th century, this book casts a new light on the present challenges. It is an important contribution to a vivid international debate.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Copywright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction(Hans-Lukas Kieser)......Page 8
Part I. Turkish nationalism: the ideological weight of the founding period (1905-1938)......Page 20
1. Turkism and the Young Turks, 1889-1908(M. sukru Hanioglu)......Page 22
2. An ethno-nationalist revolutionary and theorist of Kemalism: Dr Mahmut Esat Bozkurt (1892–1943)(Hans-Lukas Kieser)......Page 39
3. Kemalism, westernization and anti-liberalism(Hamit Bozarslan)......Page 47
Part II. Turkish nationalism: the trauma of unitarist Turkification and social engineering......Page 54
4. The settlement policy of the Committee of Union and Progress 1913-1918(Fuat Dundar)......Page 56
5. The politics of Turkification during the Single Party period(Rifat N. Bali)......Page 62
6. Depriving non-Muslims of citizenship as part of the Turkification policy in the early years of the Turkish Republic: The case of Turkish Jews and its consequences during the Holocaust(Corinna Gorgu Guttstadt)......Page 69
7. The exodus of Armenians from the Sanjak ofAlexandretta in the 1930s(Berna Pekesen)......Page 76
8. Turkish Nationalism and the Dönme(Marc Baer)......Page 86
9. Claiming difference in an unitarist frame: the case of Alevism(Elise Massicard)......Page 93
Part III. The historiographical challenge......Page 102
10. Defining the parameters of a post-nationalistTurkish historiography through the case of the Anatolian Armenians(Fatma Müge Göçek)......Page 104
11. Facing responsibility for the Armenian genocide? At the roots of a discourse that legitimizes mass violence(Raymond H. Kévorkian)......Page 123
Part IV. Turkey in motion: today’s transformations and post-national challenges......Page 142
12. The social grammar of populist nationalism(Ebru Bulut)......Page 144
13. Religion: nation-building instrument of the state or factor of civil society? The AKP between state- and society-centered religious politics(Günter Seufert)......Page 155
14. Post-nationalist semiotics? The emblem of the Justice and Development Party AKP(Béatrice Hendrich)......Page 166
15. The urgency of post-nationalist perspectives: “Turkey for the Turks” or an open society? On the Kurdish conflict(Gülistan Gürbey)......Page 174
Part V. Turkey in motion: the EU perspective......Page 184
16. Turkey's fragile EU perspectives since the 1960s(Eugen Krieger)......Page 186
17. The non-Muslim minorities and reform in Turkey(Gabriel Goltz)......Page 194
18. National identity, asylum and immigration: the EU as a vehicle of post-national transformation in Turkey(Kemal Kiri¢ci)......Page 202
Notes......Page 219
Acknowledgments......Page 254
List of Contributors......Page 255
Index......Page 259