Symbiotic Antagonisms

by Kadioglu, Ayse; Keyman, E. Fuat

• ISBN13: 9781607810315
• ISBN10: 160781031X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-11
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Summary

Edited by Ayse Kadioglu and E. Fuat Keyman Middle East and Turkey Today, nationalism and nationalist sentiments are becoming more and more pronounced, creating a global emergence of ethno-nationalist and religious fundamentalist identity conflicts. In the post-9/11 era of international terrorism, it is appropriate to suggest that nationalism will retain its central place in politics and local and world affairs for the foreseeable future. It is in this vein that there has been a recent upsurge of interest concerning the power of nationalist tendencies as one of the dominant ideologies of modern times. Symbiotic Antagonisms looks at the state-centric mode of modernization in Turkey that has constituted the very foundation on which nationalism has acquired its ideological status and transformative power. The book documents a symposium held at Sabanci University, presenting nationalism as a multidimensional, multiactor-based phenomenon that functions as an ideology, a discourse, and a political strategy. Turkish, Kurdish, and Islamic nationalisms are systematically compared in this timely and significant work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Understanding Nationalism through Family Resemblances	p. xi
Turkish Nationalism: Continuity and Change
Turkish Nationalism: From a System of Classification to a System of Solidarity	p. 3
Nationalism in Turkey: Modernity, State, and Identity	p. 10
The Twin Motives of Turkish Nationalism	p. 33
Nationalist Discourses in Turkey	p. 57
The Changing Nature of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses, and the Struggle for Hegemony	p. 82
Conservative Manifestations of Turkish Nationalism
The Genealogy of Turkish Nationalism: From Civic and Ethnic to Conservative Nationalism in Turkey	p. 103
On the Question of Islam and Nationalism in Turkey: Sources and Discourses	p. 133
Turkish Nationalism and Sunni Islam in the Construction of Political Party Identities	p. 162
Kurdish Nationalism
Does Kurdish Nationalism Have a Navel?	p. 199
Banditry to Disloyalty: Turkish Nationalisms and the Kurdish Question	p. 223
Toward a Nonstandard Story: The Kurdish Question and the Headscarf, Nationalism, and Iraq	p. 253
Reframing the Nationalist Perspective: Kurdish Civil Society Activism in Europe	p. 289
Conclusion	p. 319
References	p. 325
List of Contributors	p. 357
Index	p. 363
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