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The JDP and Making the Post-Kemalist Secularism in Turkey
This book is an analytical study of secularism in contemporary Turkey by tracing its historical trajectory within the context of political transformation in a country that experienced a social and cultural rupture in its formative years. Its principal focus is on the policies and practices of the current ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (JDP), which has influenced the process of change, evolution, and transformation with regard to secularism and state policies toward religion. Following its foundation in 2001, the JDP developed a unique approach to conceptualising the relationship between state and religion. In contrast to other mainstream parties and political positions both in the past and present, it offers an alternative vision and model to that of inherited Kemalist secularism, as formulated by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (the founder of modern Turkey) and refined by his close associates in the formative period of the Republic. The project draws its findings from in-depth interviews with members of political parties, civil society activists and religious leaders.
Gypsy Stigma and Exclusion in Turkey, 1970
Using an oral history approach, this book draws on Gypsy and non-Gypsy narratives to tell the story of Gypsy forced dislocation from Bayramic, a northwestern town of Turkey, in 1970. Gül Özatesler examines memory construction, the categories of Gypsyness and Turkishness, and the different perspectives and positions that emerged, considering all in relation to underlying socioeconomic structure. The book reveals how ethnic and other identities can be deployed to conceal socioeconomic and political inequalities.
Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey
Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health, what it excludes and how these potentialities manifest themselves in women’s fiction to shape the imagination of the period. Starting from the nineteenth century, health gradually became a focal topic in relation to the future of the empire, and later the Republic. Examining representations of health and illness in nationalist romances, melodramas and modernist works, this book will explore diseases such as syphilis, tuberculosis and cancer, and their representation in the literary imagination as a tool to discuss anxieties over cultural transformation. This book places Turkish literature in the field of health humanities and identifies the discourse on health as a key component in the making of the Turkish nation-building ideology. By focusing on the place of health and illness in canonical and non-canonised fiction, it opens a new field in Turkish literary studies.
Controlling the Past, Owning the Future
What are the political usesÑand misusesÑof archaeology in the Middle East? In answering this question, the contributors to this volume lend their regional expertise to a variety of case studies, including the TalibanÕs destruction of Buddhas in Afghanistan, the commercialization of archaeology in Israel, the training of Egyptian archaeology inspectors, and the debate over Turkish identity sparked by the film Troy, among other provocative subjects. Other chapters question the ethical justifications of archaeology in places that have Òalternative engagements with the material past.Ó In the process, they form various views of the role of the archaeologist, from steward of the historical re...
Aesthetics of Displacement
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Displacement does not only have an effect on groups' and individuals' ways of relating to their identity and their past but the knowledge and experience of it also has an impact on its representation. Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey's minorities, Aesthetics of Displacement argues that there is a particular aesthetic continuity among the otherwise unrelated films. Ozlem Koksal focuses on films that bring taboo issues concerning the repression of minorities into visibility, arguing that the changing political and social conditions determine not only the types of stories told but also the ways in which these stories are told. Focusing on aesthetic and narrative continuities, the films discussed include Ararat, Waiting for the Clouds and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia among others. Each film is examined in light of major historical event(s) and their context (political and social) as well as the impact these events had on the construction of both minority and Turkish identity.
Sport Across Asia
This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central, South-East Asia, Asia Minor and the Arabian peninsula capture the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the diffusion and development of "sport" and body cultures. These case studies bring together insights from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, various area and post-colonial studies.
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture
This handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars, consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture, analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources of strategic culture, and modalities of change in strategic culture. The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational, regional, supra-national, national, non-state actor, and organizational levels. The volume is divided into five thematic...
Muhafazakar Düşünce Dergisi Sayı 39
Türkiye son on yıldır her alanda muazzam bir değişim içinde. Fakat bu değişim, bir vakitler olduğu gibi eskiyi yıkan, gelenekseli berhava eden, kadim değerleri bir kalemde silen bir yenilenme değil. Gecekondu tarzı bir değişim değil. Bu değişim kökü mazide olan sağlam ve esaslı bir değişim. Bu değişim, bu ülkenin vazgeçilmez sabitelerine bağlı bir yenilenme. Gelenekseli asrın idrakine uygun bir şekilde yeniden üreten, yeniden okuyan ve yeniden yorumlayan bir yenilenme. Muhafazakar Düşünce Dergisi olarak bu muazzam değişim hamlesinin kültür ayağında önemli bir misyon üstlendik. Esaslı katkı sağladık. Düşünce dünyamızı, unutulmuş değerler...
M. Şerefeddin Yaltkaya'nın İctimai Kelam Projesi
Batı bilim ve felsefesi karşısında Müslümanların yüz yüze kaldığı meydan okuma farklı yönleriyle değerlendirilmelidir. Batı düşüncesi inkârcı akımların yanında tanrının varlığına dair düşünceler bakımından da ele alınmalıdır. Bu çerçevede asrın ihtiyaçlarına cevap verecek kelâmın nasıl ortaya konulacağı temel sorusuna cevap verilirken, klasik kelam mirası yol gösterici olarak değerlendirilmelidir. Fakat sadece o birikimle yetinmenin günümüz problemlerinin çözümünde yeterli olmayacağını da unutmamalıyız. M. Şerefeddin Yaltkaya’nın dile getirdiği ictimaî kelam projesi kelam ilminde yenilik arayışları içerisinde yer alabile...
