Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracies

by Fuat E. Keyman, Bülent Aras, Feyzi Baban, Murat Borovali, Asli Cirakman

Overview

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population. Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possibility of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement. Turkey has demonstrated that as an alternative modernity and as a significant historical experience of the co-existence between Islam and democratic modernity in a secular political structure it could make an important contribution to the most needed democratic global governance for the creation of a secure, just and peaceful world. Remaking Turkey starts its investigation with an analysis of the Ottoman legacy, then focuses on identity-based conflicts and civil, economic, and global processes, all of which have brought about significant challenges to modernity and democracy in Turkey. The book concludes with an account of the recent changes and transformations that have given rise to the process of "remaking Turkey." In this way, editor E. Fuat Keyman presents a political theory-based approach to Turkish modernity and its recent changing formation, creating an original study of contemporary Turkey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739118153
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	11/07/2007
Series:	Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.39(w) x 9.36(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

E. Fuat Keyman is professor of international relations at Koc University, Turkey.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction: Modernity and Democracy in Turkey
Part 3 Part I. Ottoman Presence
Chapter 4 Chapter 1. OttomanAwqaf, Turkish Modernization, and Citizenship
Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Reflections of European Self-Images in Ottoman Mirrors
Part 6 Part II. Problematizing Turkish Modernity
Chapter 7 Chapter 3.Laiklik and Turkey's "Cultural" Modernity: Releasing Turkey into conceptual space occupied by Europe
Chapter 8 Chapter 4. From Culture of Politics to Politics of Culture: Reflections on Turkish modernity
Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Public Sphere and the Question of Identity in Turkey
Part 10 Part III. The Question of Recognition
Chapter 11 Chapter 6. Defensive and Liberal Nationalisms: The Kurdish Question and Modernization/Democratization
Chapter 12 Chapter 7. A Legitimate Restriction of Freedom? The Headscarf Issue in Turkey
Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Globalization, Modernization and Democratization in Turkey: The Fethullah Gülen Movement
Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The Anatomy of Civil Society in Turkey: Towards a Transformation
Part 15 Part IV. Amongst Other Nations
Chapter 16 Chapter 10. Reconceptualizing Center Politics in Post-1980 Turkey: Transformation or Continuity?
Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Turkey, September/11 and Greater Middle East
Chapter 18 Chapter 12. Turkey and European Integration: Toward fairness and reciprocity

Editorial Reviews

This book is relevant not only for those interested in the experience of Turkey but also for readers seeking an engagement between rich empirical evidence and political theory.

International Journal of Turkish Studies

E. Fuat Keyman's brilliantly edited and invaluable volume surveys the main issues currently challenging Turkey. This book is indispensable for anyone seeking to grasp this fascinating moment in Turkey's development when the future of the country hangs in the balance and its political life is caught between dangerous tensions and exciting emancipatory opportunities.

Richard A. Falk

E. Fuat Keyman's brilliantly edited and invaluable volume surveys the main issues currently challenging Turkey. This book is indispensable for anyone seeking to grasp this fascinating moment in Turkey's development when the future of the country hangs in the balance and its political life is caught between dangerous tensions and exciting emancipatory opportunities.

Richard Falk

This book is relevant not only for those interested in the experience of Turkey but also for readers seeking an engagement between rich empirical evidence and political theory.

E. Fuat Keyman's brilliantly edited and invaluable volume surveys the main issues currently challenging Turkey. This book is indispensable for anyone seeking to grasp this fascinating moment in Turkey's development when the future of the country hangs in the balance and its political life is caught between dangerous tensions and exciting emancipatory opportunities.

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