Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
eBook - ePub

Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

A Critical History

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

A Critical History

About this book

De-Westernizing the communications history of Turkey and its imperial predecessor

The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communications and how it affected production and practice for oppressed populations like women, the working class, and ethnic and religious minorities. Moving from the mid-nineteenth century through today, Çelik places networks within the changing geopolitical landscape and the evolution of modern capitalism in relationship to struggles involving a range of social and political actors. Throughout, she challenges Anglo- and Eurocentric assumptions that see the non-West as an ahistorical imitation of, or aberration from, the development of Western communications.

Ambitious and comprehensive, Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire merges political economy with social history to challenge Western-centered assumptions about the origins and development of modern communications.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  8. Map of the Ottoman Empire, 1830
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Empire versus Imperialism: Communicative Struggles over Reproduction of the Empire
  11. 2. Nation-Building by Communications
  12. 3. Developmentalism and the Militarization of Communications
  13. 4. Neoliberal Militarism
  14. 5. Wiring a New Turkey through Neoliberal and Islamist Populism
  15. Epilogue
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author
  19. Back Cover