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Figures That Speak: The Vocabulary of Turkish Nationalism

Figures That Speak: The Vocabulary of Turkish Nationalism

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Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 0815637268
ISBN13: 9780815637264
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Mar 23 2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
If the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father (Atatürk). This familiar vocabulary functions as more than a set of descriptors of institutions, phenomena, or issues to debate in public. These five primary figures emerge from national identity, public discourse, and scholarship about Turkey to represent Turkish history and political authority while also shaping history and political authority. These figures unify disparate phenomena into governable categories and index historical relations of power that define Turkish politics. As these concepts circulate, they operate as a shorthand for complex networks and histories of authority, producing and limiting ways of knowing Turkish modernity, democracy, and political culture. These figures not only are spoken and discussed in public, but they also produce the context into which they are projected, in a sense speaking on their own. Figures That Speak explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.

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