Lexington Books
Pages: 276
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-7939-1 • Hardback • April 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
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Rasim Özgür Dönmez is professor of international relations at Abant İzzet Baysal University.
Ali Yaman is professor of international relations at Abant İzzet Baysal University.
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Relationship between Nation-Building, Islam, and Islamism in Turkey, Rasim Özgür Dönmez
Chapter 2: Religion in the Dialectic of Turkish Nation-Building and the Case of Justice and Development Party, Büke Koyuncu
Chapter 3: Nation-Building and the Religion-State Relations in Turkey: The Presidency of Religious Affairs, Ali Yaman
Chapter 4: Laiklik and Nation-Building: How State-Religion-Society Relations Changed in Turkey under the Justice and the Development Party, Edgar Şar
Chapter 5: Nation-Building and Gender Regime in Turkey, Senem Kurt Topuz
Chapter 6: Why Afet Inan Had to Measure Skulls, Béatrice Hendrich
Chapter 7: Towards an Islamic Patriarchal Society in Turkey?: Changing Gender Roles in the Secondary School Social Studies Textbooks, Gül Arıkan Akdağ
Chapter 8: (Re)Construction of Turkish National Identity in Urban Space: Transformation Ofistanbul’s Panorama Under Jdp Rule, Seren Selvi Korkmaz
Conclusion
About the authors
This welcome volume alerts to the presence of nation-building in contemporary Turkey that it juxtaposes to earlier Kemalist nation-building practices. With historical, contemporary, and comparative perspectives, the individual chapters make for a particular dense description of the ways in which the AKP under the leadership of Tayyip Erdoğan has embarked on a remaking of Turkish state and society along the lines of newly interpreted Ottoman and Islamic pasts. Emerging “New Turkey” entails not only changes in the structure and function of the political system, but a remaking of memories, discourses, bodies, and spaces. The resulting complex picture provides for ample new comparisons with other countries that have recently undergone overhauls of their political systems and cultures and that have likewise embarked on renewed nation-building. It thus, more fundamentally, points to the continued presence of nationalism in the contemporary world.
— Markus Dressler, Leipzig University