Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?

Peasants into Frenchmen: The modernization of rural France 1870–1914: Eugene Weber, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 615. $20·00)

Part 1 The glimmerings 1718-1826: silhouette of a renaissance reaction against innovation the new social order and its fall. Part 2 The breakthrough 1826-1878: foundations of a secular state Tanzimat the economic and political impact of the West the secularism of the Tanzimat the constitutional movement constitution of 1876. Part 3 The reaction 1878-1908: constitutional absolutism the reactions against the reaction. Part 4 Search for a fulcrum 1908-19: the Mesrutiyet three proposed roads to reconstruction reforming the institutions the secularism of the Mesrutiyet. Part 5 The struggle for establishment of a secular nation-state 1919-39: the birth of a nation under fire the Kemalist reforms the secularism of the Kemalist regime.

The Development of Secularism in Turkey

Justice and the Politics of Difference

The making of modern Turkey

L'A. s'interroge sur l'identite nationale des turcs. Il s'interesse plus particulierement au nationalisme en Turquie et au role des elites d'Etat en ce qui concerne la construction d'une ideologie officiele republicaine qu'il etudie dans le detail. Il pose le probleme du rapport de ce pays a l'Orient et a l'Occident. Il souligne l'influence francaise et allemande lors de la constitution de l'Etat turc. Il estime qu la Turquie est parvenue a operer une synthese entre ces deux modeles. Il montre que dans le systeme scolaire on defend l'idee selon laquelle il convient d'adopter une vision occidentale en ce qui concerne la science et la technologie et une perspective orientale pour ce qui est de la spiritualite. Il decrit les conflits entre ceux qui defendirent la construction d'un Etat laic et ceux qui souhaitaient restaurer un Etat musulman au debut du siecle

The paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity

The following article studies three Islamic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey and evaluates them in terms of their contributions to the process of democratization in that country. There is not a necessarily positive correlation between civil society and democratization. As A. R. Norton said in the introduction of the book that he edited entitled Civil Society in the Middle East ; “Societies do not take two tablets of civil society at bedtime and wake up the next morning undergoing democratization.” 1 Indeed, some elements of civil society seem to pull them towards authoritarian practices. In spite of the fact that civil society has come to be viewed by most political theorists as the sine qua non of democracy, especially in the aftermath of the 1989 collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, there are also those who warn against the abuse of this popular concept. The relationship of the concepts of civil society and democracy with Islam is even more complex. While some approaches bluntly declare the incompatibility of Islam with the other two phenomena, others caution against the overgeneralization of Islamic movements and attract attention to differences among them. Hence, while some Islamic organizations display closed, absolutist and authoritarian tendencies, others point to the possibility of a convergence among civil society, Islam and democracy. In the first part of the following text, some of the theoretical debates on the relationship between civil society, Islam, and democracy will be portrayed. In the second part, the agendas and views of the three Islamic NGOs in Turkey will be studied. The overall purpose of this article is to show how an analysis of the Islamic NGOs which display different characteristics can pave the way to a reassessment of the literature that focuses on the dynamics of civil society, Islam, and democracy.

Civil society, Islam and Democracy in Turkey: A study of three Islamic non-governmental organizations

Turkism as a political project aiming at the construction of a Turkish national identity was spelled out in 1904. The realization of this project included processes of assimilation and exclusion of non-Turkish and non-Muslim “others”. There was also an attempt on the part of the Republican elite to construct oblivion in the society about the multicultural Ottoman past in order to constitute a Turkish national identity. Hence, Turkish citizenship emerged as membership to a national state defined on the basis of a single religion (Sunni sect of Islam) and single language (Turkish). The increasing visibility of the non-Turkish and non-Muslim identities in the 1990s unleashed a process of denationalization of citizenship. Denationalization of citizenship gained momentum after Turkey's official candidacy in the European Union in 1999. Many reforms were undertaken in the parliament towards the utilization of languages other than Turkish as well as the practice of multiple religions. These reforms were upheld by...

/pdf/denationalization-of-citizenship-the-turkish-experience1-3j2340an75.pdf

Denationalization of Citizenship? The Turkish Experience1

"This article suggests an alternative approach to unravel the impact of migration experiences on gender roles of women [in Turkey].... Analysis of the pre-migration settings of women included in this study involves an attempt to delineate background characteristics, including types of marriage and family arrangements, levels of education and work experiences outside the household in order to assess relative impact on their post-migration characteristics.... Differences among the women in terms of their exposure to migration have also been taken into account as part of their migration experiences.... The main focus of the research is changing gender roles of women rather than their emancipation." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

/pdf/the-impact-of-migration-on-gender-roles-findings-of-field-2tgfnucic9.pdf

Ayşe Gülden Kadıoğlu

Papers

The paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity

Civil society, Islam and Democracy in Turkey: A study of three Islamic non-governmental organizations

Denationalization of Citizenship? The Turkish Experience1

The impact of migration on gender roles: findings of field research in Turkey.

Another empire? : a decade of Turkey's foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party