Today, nationalism and nationalist sentiments are becoming more and more pronounced, creating a global emergence of ethno-nationalist and religious fundamentalist identity conflicts. In the post-9/11 era of international terrorism, it is appropriate to suggest that nationalism will retain its central place in politics and local and world affairs for the foreseeable future. It is in this vein that there has been a recent upsurge of interest concerning the power of nationalist tendencies as one of the dominant ideologies of modern times. Symbiotic Antagonisms looks at the state-centric mode of modernization in Turkey that has constituted the very foundation on which nationalism has acquired its ideological status and transformative power. The book documents a symposium held at Sabanci University, presenting nationalism as a multidimensional, multiactor-based phenomenon that functions as an ideology, a discourse, and a political strategy. Turkish, Kurdish, and Islamic nationalisms are systematically compared in this timely and significant work.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-355) and index.
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Contents
Turkish nationalism: from a system of classification to a system of solidarity / Şerif Mardin -- Nationalism in Turkey: modernity, state, and identity / E. Fuat Keyman -- The twin motives of Turkish nationalism / Ayşe Kadıoğlu -- Nationalist discourses in Turkey / Tanil Bora -- The changing nature of nationalism in Turkey: actors, discourses, and the struggle for hegemony / Umut Özkirimli -- The genealogy of Turkish nationalism: from civic and ethnic to conservative nationalism in Turkey / Umut Uzer -- On the question of Islam and nationalism in Turkey: sources and discourses / Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasdaği -- Turkish nationalism and Sunni Islam in the construction of political party identities / Simten Coşar -- Does Kurdish nationalism have a navel? / Hakan Özoglu -- Banditry to disloyalty: Turkish nationalisms and the Kurdish question / Mesut Yeğen -- Toward a nonstandard story: the Kurdish question and the headscarf, nationalism, and Iraq / Murat Somer -- Reframing the nationalist perspective: Kurdish civil society activism in Europe / Vera Eccarius-Kelly.