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Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

Özyürek, Esra

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Series: Politics, History, and Culture

Turkey & Ottoman Empire History

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ISBN10: 0822338793
ISBN13: 9780822338796
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 30 2006
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the other. While the Turkish government had long limited Islam--the religion of the overwhelming majority of its citizens--to the private sphere, it burst into the public arena in the late 1990s, becoming part of party politics. As religion became political, symbols of Kemalism--the official ideology of the Turkish Republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1923--spread throughout the private sphere. In Nostalgia for the Modern, Esra Özyürek analyzes the ways that Turkish citizens began to express an attachment to--and nostalgia for--the secularist, modernist, and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic.

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