TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bozdoğan,Sibel
AU  - Kasaba,Reşat
ED  - University of Washington Press
TI  - Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey
T2  - Publications on the Near East
SN  - 0295975970
AV  - DR432 .R48 1997
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Social change
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - East and West
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Kemalist certainties and modern ambiguities; / Reşat Kasaba; -- Whither the project of modernity? Turkey in the 1990s; / Çaǧlar Keyder; -- Modernization policies and Islamist politics in Turkey; / Haldun Gülalp; -- Projects as methodology : some thoughts on modern Turkish social science; / Şerif Mardin; -- The quest for the Islamic self within the context of modernity; / Nilüfer Göle; -- The project of modernity and women in Turkey; / Yeşim Arat; -- Gendering the modern : on missing dimensions in the study of Turkish modernity; / Deniz Kandiyoti; -- The predicament of modernism in Turkish architectural culture : an overview; / Sibel Bozdoǧan; -- Once there was, once there wasn't : national monuments and interpersonal exchange; / Michael E. Meeker; -- Silent interruptions : urban encounters with rural Turkey; / Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoǧlu; -- Arabesk culture : a case of modernization and popular identity; / Meral Özbek; -- The Turkish option in comparative perspective; / Ernest Gellner; -- Modernizing projects in Middle Eastern perspective; / Roger Owen; -- Finding the meeting ground of fact and fiction : some reflections on Turkish modernization; / Joel S. Migdal
N2  - 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
ER  -