Turkey's engagement with modernity: conflict and change in the Twentieth Century

Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped inthe image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated. INDICE: - Synopsis: Tensions of Modernity: Looking Back to a Century of Nationalism; K.Öktem - Introduction: Atatürk and Kemalism throughout the Twentieth Century; A.Mango - PART I: THE STATE, ITS POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - The Ottoman Educational Legacy; B.Fortna - Genç Kalemler and Turkish Nationalism; M.Belge - Nation-Building and Feminism in Early Republican Turkey; Y.Arat - ISLAM, THE MILITARY AND THE STATE - Islam in the Service of the National and Pre-National State: The Instrumentalisation of Religion for Policy Goals by Turkish Regimes between 1880 and 1980; E-J.Zürcher - Transformation of Sufi-Based Communities in Modern Turkey: The Naksibendis, the Nurcus, and the Gülen Community; E.Özdalga - Military and Politics in Turkey; F.Ahmad - INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY - The Turkish Grand National Assembly: New Challenges and Old Problems; E.Kalaycioglu - University Governance in Turkey; I.Turan - Opportunities, Freedoms and Restrictions: Women and Employment in Turkey; Z.Kabasakal-Arat - Poverty, Social Policy and Modernity in Turkey; S.Ayata - Forgotten Campaigns: A History of Disease in Turkey; A.Halis Akder - TURKEY AS INTERNATIONAL ACTOR - Turkey and the Great Powers; H.Barkey - The Evolution of Turkish National Security Strategy; I.Lesser - Turkey's Engagement with Europe: A History of Mutual Management; N.Yurdusev - PART II: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN FLUX- THE REPUBLIC IN ARTS - 'Westernisation against the West': Cultural Politicsin the Early Turkish Republic; O.Koçak - The Turkish Novel: From Model of Modernity to Puzzle of Post-Modernity; N.Esen - The Turkish Music Reform: From Late Ottoman Times to the Early Republic; E.Araci - MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE - Fashioning the Turkish Body Politic; A.Yumul - 'Two Faces' of the Press in Turkey: The Role of the Media in Turkey's Modernisation and Democracy; S.Alpay - Tensions between Rapid Commercialisation and Continued Ideological Control in the Turkish Media: The 1990s in Retrospect; A.Öncü - SOCIAL AND URBAN HISTORIES - From 'Cubic Houses' to Suburban Villas: Residential Architecture and the Elites in Turkey; S.Bozdogan - Tin Town to Fanatics: Turkey's Rural to Urban Migration from 1923 to the Present; J.White - Oral History and Memory Studies inTurkey; L.Neyzi

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23314-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 496
• Fecha Publicación: 25/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés