ISBN:
9780822963905
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 330 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
26 cm
Series Statement:
Culture, politics, and the built environment
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kezer, Zeynep Building Modern Turkey
DDC:
720.1/03
Keywords:
Architecture and state History 20th century
;
Architecture and society History 20th century
;
Space (Architecture) Political aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Space (Architecture) Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Nationalism and architecture History 20th century
;
Nation-state Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Ideology Political aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Social change History 20th century
;
Cultural pluralism History 20th century
;
Turkey Politics and government 1918-1960
;
Türkei
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Nationalstaat
;
Architektur
;
Städtebau
;
Geschichte 1918-1940
;
Identität
;
Nationalismus
;
Modernisierung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Zeynep Kezer argues that the deliberate dismantling of ethnic and religious enclaves and the spatial practices that ensued were as integral to conjuring up a sense of national unity and facilitating the operations of a modern nation-state as were the creation of a new capital, Ankara, and other sites and services that embodied a new modern way of life. The book breaks new ground by examining both the creative and destructive forces at play in the making of modern Turkey and by addressing the overwhelming frictions during this profound transformation and their long-term consequences. By considering spatial transformations at different scales--from the experience of the individual self in space to that of international geopolitical disputes--Kezer also illuminates the concrete and performative dimensions of fortifying a political ideology, one that instills in the population a sense of membership in and allegiance to the nation above all competing loyalties and ensures its longevity"--
Abstract:
"Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Zeynep Kezer argues that the deliberate dismantling of ethnic and religious enclaves and the spatial practices that ensued were as integral to conjuring up a sense of national unity and facilitating the operations of a modern nation-state as were the creation of a new capital, Ankara, and other sites and services that embodied a new modern way of life. The book breaks new ground by examining both the creative and destructive forces at play in the making of modern Turkey and by addressing the overwhelming frictions during this profound transformation and their long-term consequences. By considering spatial transformations at different scales--from the experience of the individual self in space to that of international geopolitical disputes--Kezer also illuminates the concrete and performative dimensions of fortifying a political ideology, one that instills in the population a sense of membership in and allegiance to the nation above all competing loyalties and ensures its longevity"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Ambivalences and AnxietiesPart I. Forging a New Identity -- Political Capital -- Theaters of Diplomacy -- Part II. Erasures in the Land -- Dismantling the Landscapes of Islam -- Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places -- Part III. An Imaginable Community -- Nationalizing Space -- Manufacturing Turkish Citizens -- Epilogue.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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