14/ Modernizing Projects in Middle Eastern Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. 2/ Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities 15
7. 3/ Whither the Project of Modernity? Turkey in the 19905 37
8. 4/ Modernization Policies and Islamist Politics in Turkey 52
9. 5/ Projects as Methodology: Some Thoughts on Modern Turkish Social Science 64
10. 6/ The Quest for the Islamic Self within the Context of Modernity 81
11. 7/ The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey 95
12. 8/ Gendering the Modern: On Missing Dimensions in the Study of Turkish Modernity 113
13. 9/ The Predicament of Modernism: in Turkish Architectural Culture An Overview 133
14. 10/ Once There Was, Once There Wasn't: National Monuments and Interpersonal Exchange 157
15. 11/ Silent Interruptions: Urban Encounters with Rural Turkey 192
16. 12/ Arabesk Culture A Case of Modernization and Popular Identity 211
17. 13/ The Turkish Option in Comparative Perspective 233
18. 14/ Modernizing Projects in Middle Eastern Perspective 245
19. 15/ Finding the Meeting Ground of Fact and Fiction: Some Reflections on Turkish Modernization 252
20. Contributors 261
21. Index 264