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Title

Kemalism : transnational politics in the post-Ottoman world / edited by Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi and Emmanuel Szurek.

Publication

• London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Clayer, Nathalie
• Giomi, Fabio
• Szurek, Emmanuel

Description

xvi, 350 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, came to power in 1923 with a radical and wide-ranging programme of reforms, known collectively as Kemalism. This philosophy - which included adopting a western alphabet and securing a secular state apparatus - has since the early 1930s, when the Turkish state endeavoured to impose a monolithic definition of the term, been connected to the development of the personality cult of Mustafa Kemal himself. This book argues that in fact Kemalism can only be fully understood from a transnational perspective: just as a uniquely national frame is not the only appropriate scale of analysis for shedding light on the process of the nationalization of societies and nationalism itself, the Turkish national lens is not necessarily the most adequate one for understanding the genesis and evolution of what Kemalism stood for from the early 1920s onward. Featuring case studies from across the former Ottoman Empire and using new primary source research, each chapter examines the different ways in which national borders refracted and transformed Kemalist ideology. Across the Balkans and the Middle East Kemalism influenced the development of language and the alphabet, the life of women, the law, and everyday dress. A particular focus on the interwar period in Turkey, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Egypt reveals how, as a practical tool, Kemalism must be relocated as a global movement, whose influence is still felt today." --

Series Statement

Library of modern Turkey ; 42

Uniform Title

Library of modern Turkey ; 42.

Subjects

• Turkey
• Kemalism
• Turkey > History > 1918-1960
• 1918-1960

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-332) and index.

Contents

Transationalising Kemalism: a refractive relationship / Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi and Emmanuel Szurek -- Kemalism and the adoption of the civil code in Albania (1926-9) / Nathalie Clayer -- Kemalism between the borders: conflicts over the new Turkish alphabet in Bulgaria / Anna M. Mirkova -- From Ottoman to Turkish script in Cyprus: conception and implementation of a "Kemalist reform" against a colonial backdrop / Béatrice Hendrich -- Transnational history in a hat: Egypt and Kemalism in the interwar years / Wilson Chacko Jacob -- Seduced by gender corporatism: Muslim cultural entrepreneurs and Kemalist Turkey in interwar Yugoslavia / Fabio Giomi -- Reappropriating the orientalist gaze in the material culture of Kemalist Turkey: the formation of an "aesthetic nationalism" / Ece Zerman -- The man sick of Europe: a transnational history of Kemalist science / Emmanuel Szurek.

Call Number

JFD 19-1980

ISBN

• 1788313720
• 9781788313728

OCLC

1029780105

Title

Kemalism : transnational politics in the post-Ottoman world / edited by Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi and Emmanuel Szurek.

Publisher

London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of modern Turkey ; 42

Library of modern Turkey ; 42.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-332) and index.

Chronological Term

1918-1960

Added Author

Clayer, Nathalie, editor.

Giomi, Fabio, editor.

Szurek, Emmanuel, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-1980