Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey /

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 understandin...

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Other Authors: Bozdoğan, Sibel., Kasaba, Reşat, 1954-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1997.

Series: Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.

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Call Number: DR432 .R48 1997

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245 0 0 |a Rethinking modernity and national identity in Turkey /  |c edited by Sibel Bozdogan and Resat Kasaba. 
260 |a Seattle :  |b University of Washington Press,  |c ©1997. 
300 |a xi, 270 pages :   |b illustrations ;   |c 23 cm. 
490 1 |a Publications on the Near East. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction / Sibel Bozdogan and Resat Kasaba -- Kemalist certainties and modern ambiguities / Resat Kasaba -- Whither the project of modernity? Turkey in the 1990s / Caglar Keyder -- Modernization policies and Islamist politics in Turkey / Haldun Gulalp -- Projects as methodology : some thoughts on modern Turkish social science / Serif Mardin -- The quest for the Islamic self within the context of modernity / Nilufer Gole -- The project of modernity and women in Turkey / Yesim 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 Bozdogan -- Once there was, once there wasn't : national monuments and interpersonal exchange / Michael E. Meeker -- Silent interruptions : urban encounters with rural Turkey / Gulsum Baydar Nalbantoglu -- Arabesk culture : a case of modernization and popular identity / Meral Ozbek --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. 
520 |a 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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650 0 |a Nationalism  |z Turkey. 
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