Balıkesir Üniversitesi
Kütüphane ve Dokümantasyon Daire Başkanlığı

Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey /

Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey / edited by Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba. - xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Publications on the Near East . - Publications on the Near East, University of Washington. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kemalist certainties and modern ambiguities -- Whither the project of modernity? Turkey in the 1990s -- Modernization policies and Islamist politics in Turkey -- Projects as methodology : some thoughts on modern Turkish social science -- The quest for the Islamic self within the context of modernity -- The project of modernity and women in Turkey -- Gendering the modern : on missing dimensions in the study of Turkish modernity -- The predicament of modernism in Turkish architectural culture : an overview -- Once there was, once there wasn't : national monuments and interpersonal exchange -- Silent interruptions : urban encounters with rural Turkey -- Arabesk culture : a case of modernization and popular identity -- The Turkish option in comparative perspective -- Modernizing projects in Middle Eastern perspective -- Finding the meeting ground of fact and fiction : some reflections on Turkish modernization / Reşat Kasaba / Çaǧlar Keyder / Haldun Gülalp / Şerif Mardin / Nilüfer Göle / Yeşim Arat / Deniz Kandiyoti / Sibel Bozdoǧan / Michael E. Meeker / Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoǧlu / Meral Özbek / Ernest Gellner / Roger Owen / Joel S. Migdal.

The essays in this book are the first attempt to examine the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning. The contributors offer a fresh, balanced understanding of dilemmas now facing not only Turkey but also many other parts of the Middle East and the world at large.

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Social change--Turkey.
Nationalism--Turkey.
East and West.


Turkey--Civilization--20th century.

DR432 / .R48 1997
Bizi Sosyal Medyada Takip Edin