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The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey

The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey

General DramaMiddle Eastern ArtTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 147449028X
ISBN13: 9781474490283
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1 2021
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.52
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Since coming to power, President Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) have focused on narrating their vision of a 'New Turkey' - an ideal that has resulted in the politicisation of popular culture and people's everyday lives. Exposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP's efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture in urban public spaces. It also explores the tactics of cultural resistance developed by the politically weak to counter the ruling elite's dominant culture of pious conservatism.

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