Turkish Politics and ‘The People’
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0285-6 (ISBN)
Turkish Politics and ‘The People’ enhances our understanding of ‘the popular’ in the study of politics through a critical examination of the uses and constructions of ‘the people’ from the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, to the present. It proposes ways of reading the insertion and operationalisation of the notion of ‘the people’ as a concept, a political subject, the object of policy and politics over the past century. It assesses the ways ‘the people’ have been shaped by the history of the republic, and, in turn, have informed ways of visualising society, the country’s political culture, institutional architecture and framed the parameters and repertoires of political action.
Spyros A. Sofos is a political scientist based at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science and is founder and lead editor of openDemocracy’s #rethinkingpopulism. He has a PhD in Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies from the University of Copenhagen and has previously worked as a Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) of Lund University, Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Kingston University and Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Politics at Portsmouth University. His other books include Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (1996, Routledge), Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (2008, Hurst and Oxford University Press), Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (2013, Palgrave). He was also co-editor of the ‘Islam and Nationalism’ Palgrave Macmillan book series (2013-18).
Chapter 1: The people: Legitimacy and mobilization in Turkish politics
The notion of the people
The Popular and the Populist
Structure of this volume
Chapter 2: Situating the people in the foundational narratives of the early Turkish republic
Between empire and republic
Bringing the people centre-stage
Anticolonialism, injustice and the people’s enemies
A populist state without a people
Secularism: The impassable route from the Anatolian masses to the sovereign people
A state in motion and the ‘normalization’ of exception
Chapter 3: The sovereign people in anxious times
Othering and Turkishness
Anxiety, ontological insecurity and nationalist desire
The republican people under the shadow of the nation
Noble savages and the infant people
Governing the wilderness
Chapter 4: Sovereignty, legitimacy and the voice of the people
The people as an empty signifier
Clashing sovereignties; conflicting legitimacies
Love, fear and legitimacy: the infant people and the father
Chapter 5: The politics of the repressed
"Rekindling" a flame long gone
The 1960 coup: Kemalism resurrected or reinterpreted?
Kemalism and its challengers: Leftism, Nationalism Islamism
The multiple iterations of the people in the 1960s and 1970s
The 1980 coup and the transformation of Turkey’s political and social topography
Chapter 6: A difficult democracy: populism and the people in Turkish politics
Islam: between pacification and mobilization
Hegemony beyond Islamism
The politics of indignation and the moment of the people
Chapter 7: Life after populism?
Standing on precarious divides
Full circle
Conclusion: Life after Populism?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-0285-9 / 1399502859 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-0285-6 / 9781399502856 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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