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Turkey Beyond Nationalism : Towards Post-Nationalist Identities.
Title:
Turkey Beyond Nationalism : Towards Post-Nationalist Identities.
Author:
Kieser, Hans-Lukas.
ISBN:
9780857717573
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Series:
International Library of Twentieth Century History
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Turkish nationalism:the ideological weight of the founding period (1905-1938) -- 1. Turkism and the Young Turks, 1889-1908 -- 2. An ethno-nationalist revolutionary and theoristof Kemalism: Dr Mahmut Esat Bozkurt (1892-1943) -- 3. Kemalism, westernization and anti-liberalism -- Part II.Turkish nationalism:the trauma of unitarist Turkification and social engineering -- 4. The settlement policy of the Committee ofUnionand Progress 1913-1918 -- 5. The politics of Turkification during the SingleParty period -- 6. Depriving non-Muslims of citizenship as part ofthe Turkification policy in the early years of theTurkish Republic -- 7. The exodus of Armenians from the Sanjak of Alexandretta in the 1930s -- 8. Turkish Nationalism and the Dönme -- 9. Claiming difference in an unitarist frame:the case of Alevism -- Part III.The historiographical challenge -- 10. Defining the parameters of a post-nationalistTurkish historiography through the case of the Anatolian Armenians -- 11. Facing responsibility for the Armenian genocide? At the roots of a discourse thatlegitimizes mass violence -- Part IV.Turkey in motion:today's transformations and post-national challenge -- 12. The social grammar of populist nationalism -- 13. Religion: nation-building instrument of the state or factor of civil society? The AKP between state- and society-centered religiouspolitics -- 14. Post-nationalist semiotics? The emblem of the Justice and Development Party AKP -- 15. The urgency of post-nationalist perspectives:"Turkey for the Turks" or an open society? -- Part V. Turkey in motion: the EU perspective -- 16. Turkey's fragile EU perspectives since the 1960s -- 17. The non-Muslim minorities and reform in Turkey -- 18. National identity, asylum and immigration:the EU as a vehicle of post-national trans-formation in Turkey -- Notes.

Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the 20th century, and was a central driving force in Ataturk's foundation of the Republic in 1923. How did the prominence of Kemalist ways of political thinking affect its people and its policies? How will Turkey make progress towards post-nationalism in the 21st century? To what extent has Turkey's EU candidature been a vehicle of transformation since 1999 and what would EU membership mean for modern Turkey? _x000D_ _x000D_ This book explores the historical impact of Kemalism, anti-liberalism and westernization and examines the conditions which have contributed to the country's evolution away from a nationalist political identity. Tracing the development of nationalism from its founding period before the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to the present AKP government - and analysing key factors such as the position of minorities in the Turkification process and the influence of state and society centred religious politics - this strong and significant contribution casts a new light on a vivid international debate._x000D_.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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