Research Catalog

Title

The power of the people : everyday resistance and dissent in the making of modern Turkey, 1923-38 / Murat Metinsoy.

Author

Metinsoy, Murat

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xi, 405 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atatürk and his Republican People's Party. Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political change of Turkey as much as Atatürk's strong spurt of modernization. Adopting a broader conception of politics, focusing on daily interactions between the state and society and using untapped archival sources, Murat Metinsoy reveals how rural and urban people coped with the state policies, local oppression, exploitation, and adverse conditions wrought by the Great Depression through diverse everyday survival and resistance strategies. Showing how the people's daily practices and beliefs survived and outweighed the modernizing elite's projects, this book gives new insights into the social and historical origins of Turkey's backslide to conservative and Islamist politics, demonstrating that the making of modern Turkey was an outcome of intersection between the modernization and the people's responses to it.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Kemalism
• Poor > Political activity > History > Turkey > 20th century
• Government, Resistance to > Turkey > History > 20th century
• Social change > Turkey > History > 20th century
• Government, Resistance to
• Politics and government
• Poor > Political activity
• Social change
• Turkey > Politics and government > 1918-1960
• Turkey

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-382) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Toward an infrahistory of republican Turkey -- Part I. Everyday Politics of Peasants : 1. The price of the republic for the peasants -- 2. Raising voice and rural discontent -- 3. Resisting the agricultural taxes -- 4. Social smuggling: resistance to the monopolies -- 5. Theft, violence and banditry -- Concluding remarks -- Part II. Everyday Politics of Urban Labor : 6. The price of the republic for the working class -- 7. Labor discontent -- 8. Survival struggles and everyday resistance -- 9. Violence, protests and walkouts -- Conclusing remarks -- Part III. The Power of Popular Culture : 10. Hotbeds of opposition to secularism: mosques, coffehouses and homes -- 11. Informal media vs. official discourse: word of mouth, rumors and placards -- 12. Neither fez nor hat: contesting the hat reform -- 13. Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns -- 14. Old habits die hard: tenacity of old lifestyles in new times -- Conclusing remarks -- Epilogue: infrastructure of Turkey's modernization.

Call Number

JFE 22-3188

ISBN

• 9781316515464
• 131651546X

LCCN

2021024962

OCLC

1250305528

Author

Metinsoy, Murat, author.

Title

The power of the people : everyday resistance and dissent in the making of modern Turkey, 1923-38 / Murat Metinsoy.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-382) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Metinsoy, Murat. Power of the people Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781009025775 (DLC) 2021024963

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3188