Turkey''s Engagement with Modernity : Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century

Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated.

Synopsis: Tensions of Modernity: Looking Back to a Century of Nationalism; K.Öktem Introduction: Atatürk and Kemalism throughout the Twentieth Century; A.Mango PART I: THE STATE, ITS POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Ottoman Educational Legacy; B.Fortna Genç Kalemler and Turkish Nationalism; M.Belge Nation-Building and Feminism in Early Republican Turkey; Y.Arat ISLAM, THE MILITARY AND THE STATE Islam in the Service of the National and Pre-National State: The Instrumentalisation of Religion for Policy Goals by Turkish Regimes between 1880 and 1980; E-J.Zürcher Transformation of Sufi-Based Communities in Modern Turkey: The Nak?ibendis, the Nurcus, and the Gülen Community; E.Özdalga Military and Politics in Turkey; F.Ahmad INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY The Turkish Grand National Assembly: New Challenges and Old Problems; E.Kalayc?o?lu University Governance in Turkey; ?.Turan Opportunities, Freedoms and Restrictions: Women and Employment in Turkey; Z.Kabasakal-Arat Poverty, Social Policy and Modernity in Turkey; S.Ayata Forgotten Campaigns: A History of Disease in Turkey; A.Halis Akder TURKEY AS INTERNATIONAL ACTOR Turkey and the Great Powers; H.Barkey The Evolution of Turkish National Security Strategy; I.Lesser Turkey''s Engagement with Europe: A History of Mutual Management; N.Yurdusev PART II: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN FLUX THE REPUBLIC IN ARTS ''Westernisation against the West'': Cultural Politics in the Early Turkish Republic; O.Koçak The Turkish Novel: From Model of Modernity to Puzzle of Post-Modernity; N.Esen The Turkish Music Reform: From Late Ottoman Times to the Early Republic; E.Arac? MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE Fashioning the Turkish Body Politic; A.Yumul ''Two Faces'' of the Press in Turkey: The Role of the Media in Turkey''s Modernisation and Democracy; ?.Alpay Tensions between Rapid Commercialisation and Continued Ideological Control in the Turkish Media: The 1990s in Retrospect; A.Öncü SOCIAL AND URBAN HISTORIES From ''Cubic Houses'' to Suburban Villas: Residential Architecture and the Elites in Turkey; S.Bozdo?an Tin Town to Fanatics: Turkey''s Rural to Urban Migration from 1923 to the Present; J.White Oral History and Memory Studies in Turkey; L.Neyzi