Remaking Turkey Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracies

by Keyman, Fuat E.; Aras, Bülent; Baban, Feyzi; Borovali, Murat; Cirakman, Asli; Cosar, Simten; Davison, Andrew; Düzgit, Senem Aydin; Icduygu, Ahmet; Isin, Engin; Kahraman, Hasan Bülent; Keyman, E Fuat; Lorasdagi, Berrin Koyuncu; Özman, Aylin; Somer, Murat;

• ISBN13: 9780739118153
• ISBN10: 0739118153
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-07
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population.Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possiblity of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting, as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Modernity and Democracy in Turkey	p. xv
Ottoman Presence
Ottoman Awqaf, Turkish Modernization, and Citizenship	p. 3
Reflections of European Self-images in Ottoman Mirrors	p. 17
Problematizing Turkish Modernity
Laiklik and Turkey's "Cultural" Modernity: Releasing Turkey into Conceptual Space Occupied by "Europe"	p. 35
From Culture of Politics to Politics of Culture: Reflections on Turkish Modernity	p. 47
The Public Sphere and the Question of Identity in Turkey	p. 75
The Question of Recognition
Defensive and Liberal Nationalisms: The Kurdish Question and Modernization/Democratization	p. 103
A Legitimate Restriction of Freedom? The Headscarf Issue in Turkey	p. 137
Globalization, Modernization, and Democratization in Turkey: The Fethullah Gulen Movement	p. 153
The Anatomy of Civil Society in Turkey: Toward a Transformation	p. 179
Amongst Other Nations
Reconceptualizing Center Politics in Post-1980 Turkey: Transformation or Continiuty?	p. 201
Turkey, September 11, and Greater Middle East	p. 227
Turkey and European Integration: Toward Fairness and Reciprocity	p. 245
Figures and Tables	p. 259
About the Contributors	p. 263
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