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Nostalgia for the Modern
State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
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2006
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
“Esra Özyürek equips us to see modernity as both an ongoing invention and an object of nostalgia. Her analysis, exceptional for its ethnographic richness and ideological nuance, shows how power struggles between secular and Islamist political movements are reconfiguring popular notions of citizenship and the sacred in Turkey. Few scholars have devised such a compelling framework for assessing the mutual transformations of nationalism, Islam, and the state. This is exciting, innovative work.”—Andrew Shryock, author of Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination
“[P]owerful, rich, and impressive. . . . The clarity of writing, together with the subtlety and sophistication of the analysis, makes this monograph unique: one that is accessible to thoughtful undergraduates and intriguing for those more engaged with anthropological theories. . .”
-- Mandana E. Limbert American Ethnologist
“[A] fine contribution to a multidisciplinary, rich, and sophisticated discourse on contemporary Turkey. . . . The author provides us with a rich ethnography, a sophisticated and nuanced theoretical frame, and a historical perspective through which we can understand her data and conclusions.”
-- Roberta Micallef International Journal of Middle East Studies
“The book’s main strength is its lucid presentation of the concerns of Kemalist circles in contemporary Turkey and its analysis of some of the strategies they adopted to cope with them. . . . Özyürek’s study offers fresh insights into recent political and ideological developments within the influential Kemalist circles of Turkey.”
-- Amit Bein Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. The Elderly Children of the Republic: The Public History in the Private Story
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Chapter 2. Wedded to the Republic: Displaying Transformations in Private Lives
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Chapter 3 Miniaturizing Atatürk: The Commodification of State Iconography
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Chapter 4. Hand in Hand with the Republic. Civilian Celebrations of the Turkish State
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Chapter 5. Public Memory as Political Battleground. Kemalist and Islamist Versions of the Early Republic
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Conclusion
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Notes
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References
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Index
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August 30, 2006
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9780822388463
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240
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