Strong State and Plural Society in Turkey
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Strong State and Plural Society in Turkey

  1. 209 pages
  2. English
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Strong State and Plural Society in Turkey

About this book

The author draws attention to the strong state tradition and the pluralistic society that both prevailed in Turkey. He argues that the Turkish state tradition envisages centralization, social cohesion and an obedient political culture. Through the modernization process of the last century, it has tried to change the society from top to down, and built an ideological and unitarian public sphere. However, the transition to multi-party system in 1950 and the liberalization policies that followed in the post-1980s have prepared the ground for different social movements to come into existence in the same public arena. Social movements which developed particularly among Kurds, Alevis and women emphasize social diversity, pluralism, participation, limited authority, freedom and human rights. They, thus, have paved the way for the transformation of the ideological public sphere into a plural and a civil public domain. The author follows the traces of all these developments from the Ottoman Empire to the last decades of the Republican Turkey. Moving from the case of Turkey he makes an important contribution to the literature on various issues such as civil society, public sphere, modernization, democracy, and social movements.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Civil Society in the Ottoman Empire1
  8. Chapter 2: Liberalism and Civil Society as in the Case of Turkey1
  9. Chapter 3: Religion and Ethnicity in the Construction of the Official Ideology in Republican Turkey1: Coauthored with Metin Toprak and Nasuh Uslu
  10. Chapter 4: The Transformation of the Ideological Public Sphere in Turkey1
  11. Chapter 5: Civil Society under a Strong State in Turkey1: Coauthored with M. Lütfullah Karaman
  12. Chapter 6: Media and Alevi Identity in Turkey1
  13. Chapter 7: The Same Actors with Different Voices: Feminisms with Diverse Interests in Turkey1
  14. Chapter 8: The Transformation of Feminism in Turkey: From Kemalist Modernism to Postmodernism1
  15. Chapter 9: The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Turkey1
  16. Chapter 10: Women and Local Democracy in Turkey1
  17. Index
  18. About the Author