The Power of the People

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-01214-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 417 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atatürk and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political change of Turkey as much as Atatürk's strong spurt of modernization. Adopting a broader conception of politics, focusing on daily interactions between the state and society and using untapped archival sources, Murat Metinsoy reveals how rural and urban people coped with the state policies, local oppression, exploitation, and adverse conditions wrought by the Great Depression through diverse everyday survival and resistance strategies. Showing how the people's daily practices and beliefs survived and outweighed the modernizing elite's projects, this book gives new insights into the social and historical origins of Turkey's backslide to conservative and Islamist politics, demonstrating that the making of modern Turkey was an outcome of intersection between the modernization and the people's responses to it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Metinsoy, Murat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Toward an infrahistory of Republican Turkey; Part I. Everyday Politics of Peasants: 1. The price of the Republic for the peasants; 2. Raising voice and rural discontent; 3. Resisting the agricultural taxes; 4. Social smuggling: resistance to the monopolies; 5. Theft, violence and banditry; Concluding remarks; Part II. Everyday Politics of Urban Labor: 6. The price of the republic for the working class; 7. Labor discontent; 8. Survival struggles and everyday resistance; 9. Violence, protests and walkouts; Concluding remarks; Part III: The Power of Popular Culture: 10. Hotbeds of opposition to secularism: mosques, coffehouses and homes; 11. Informal media vs. official discourse: word of mouth, rumors and placards; 14. Neither fez, nor hat: contesting the hat reform; 13. Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns; 15. Old habits die hard: tenacity of old lifestyles in new times; Concluding remarks; Epilogue. Infrastructure of Turkey's modernization; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Metinsoy, Murat
Murat Metinsoy is Professor of History and Political Science in the Faculty of Economics, at Istanbul University. His research interests include the history and politics of modern Turkey and popular politics under authoritarian regimes. As the author of Turkey in World War II: State and Society in Everyday Life (Third edition, 2020) he was awarded the Best Young Social Scientist Award by The Turkish Social Science Association and the Best Book Award by the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Center. Murat Metinsoy is a member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the Turkish Social Science Association, and the History Foundation of Turkey.