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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Language: English
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
©1997.
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Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
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Call Number: DR432 .R48 1997
Table of Contents:
- 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.