12 Between Invention and Authenticity: Representations of Abdülhamid II in the TV Series Payitaht

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Notes on Contributors xv
7. Foreword xxi
8. 1 The Politics of Culture in ‘New Turkey’ 1
9. Part I SUBCULTURES AND THE POLITICS OF LIFESTYLES
10. 2 Battling Over the Spirit of a Nation: Attitudes Towards Alcohol in ‘New Turkey’ 27
11. 3 ‘Spreading VX Gas Over Kaaba’: Islamic Semiotics in Turkish Black Metal 49
12. 4 Tired of Religion: Atheism and Non-Belief in ‘New Turkey’ 68
13. Part II SATIRE AND AGITPROP IN ‘NEW TURKEY’
14. 5 Democra-Z: Election Propaganda, a Failed Coup and Zombie Politics in ‘New Turkey’ 89
15. 6 United Against the Referee: Competitive Authoritarianism, Soccer and the Remaking of Nationalism in Erdoğanist Turkey 111
16. 7 Between Resistance and Surrender: Counter-Hegemonic Discourses in Turkish Satirical Magazines 130
17. Part III CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER
18. 8 The Boundaries of Womanhood in ‘New Turkey’: The Case of KADEM 151
19. 9 Never Walk Alone: The Politics of Unveiling in ‘New Turkey’ 172
20. 10 Welcome to Dystopia. A View into the Counter-Hegemonic Discourse(s) of Ecological Activism in Istanbul 191
21. Part IV MEDIATING NEO-OTTOMANISM IN POPULAR CULTURE
22. 11 New Histories for a New Turkey: The First Battle of Kut (1916) and the Reshaping of the Ottoman Past 207
23. 12 Between Invention and Authenticity: Representations of Abdülhamid II in the TV Series Payitaht 225
24. 13 Writing a Visual History of Turkey: ‘Glorious History’ in Mainstream Cinema versus ‘Complicated History’ in Art House Films 239
25. 14 The Politics of Nostalgia: The New Urban Culture in Ankara’s Historic Neighbourhoods 253
26. Part V ‘NEW TURKEY’S’ ETHNO-RELIGIOUS OTHERS
27. 15 The Affirmation of Sunni Supremacism in Erdoğan’s ‘New Turkey’ 275
28. 16 ‘Because They Would Misunderstand’: Romeyka Heritage and the Masculine Reconfigurations of Public Culture in Contemporary Turkey 292
29. 17 A Politics of Presence: Public Performances of Roma Belonging in Istanbul 310
30. INDEX 329