Society, Politics, and Economy in Modern Turkey: Sociology of Turkey - Maintained by Tugrul Keskin
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

Monday, June 27, 2016

Belgesel: Milli Türk Talebe Birliği (MTTB): Büyük Doğu'nun Atlıları - Mayis 2016

Milli Türk Talebe Birliği: MTTB
Metin yazarlığını gazeteci-yazar Fehmi Çalmuk’un yaptığı Milli Türk Tabele Birliği’nin 100 yıllık geçmişini anlatan "Büyük Doğu’nun Atlıları" belgeseli:

Büyük Doğu'nun Atlıları 1.Bölüm

Büyük Doğu'nun Atlıları 2.Bölüm

Büyük Doğu'nun Atlıları 3.Bölüm

Büyük Doğu'nun Atlıları 4.Bölüm

Büyük Doğu'nun Atlıları 5.Bölüm

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

A New Book: Is the Turk a White Man? Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity

A New Book: Is the Turk a White Man? Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity

Murat Ergin, Koç University

Brill 2017

 
Murat Ergin, Ph.D. (2005), University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Koç University. His research interests include nationalism, race, ethnicity, cultural boundaries, and death.

Table of contents

CHAPTER 1: WHY THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
Race and the Turkish Case
Why Care About the Turkish Case?
The West = Theory; The Rest = “Mere” Case
Cases and National Boundaries
CHAPTER 2: THE REPUBLICAN CONVERSION NARRATIVE
Rewriting History
CHAPTER 3: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE “WEST”
Becoming White
The Ghosts of the Past: Ottoman Modernization and Encounters with the West
The Ottoman Interest in Race
Ziya Gökalp: The Official Ideologue of the Republic?
The Formation of the “Terrible Turk”: Western Perceptions
The Problem of Periodization
CHAPTER 4: RACE IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY
Racial Vocabularies
Mermaids, Fish, Humans: The Taxonomic Discourse
Biometric Mobilization to Protect and Improve the Race
Anthropometric Mobilization to “Discover” the Turkish Race
CHAPTER 5: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AND RACIAL DISCOURSES
Intellectual Exchange and Historical Contingency
The University Reform and Émigré Scholars
Conflicting Loyalties: Expertise in the Service of Local and Universal Agendas
Afet İnan and Eugène Pittard: Personal Interaction in Search of Anthropometric Essences
CHAPTER 6: RACE IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY
Race, and Ethnicity, and Nation
Race in Contemporary Turkey
CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION