Özyürek / Steinmetz / Adams Nostalgia for the Modern

State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8846-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

An ethnographic analysis of the ways that, during the 1990s, Turkish citizens began to express nostalgia for the secularist and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Özyürek, Esra

Steinmetz, George

Adams, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. The Elderly Children of the Republic: The Public History in the Private Story 29

2. Wedded to the Republic: Displaying Transformations in Private Lives 65

3. Miniaturizing Ataturk: The Commodification of State Iconography 93

4. Hand in Hand with the Republic: Civilian Celebration of the Turkish State 125

5. Public Memory as Political Battleground: Kemalist and Islamist Versions of the Early Republic 151

Conclusion 178

Notes 183

References 199

Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Esra Özyürek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the editor of Politics of Public Memory: Production and Consumption of the Past in Turkey.