Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey

Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey.

University of Utah Press

Edited by Ayşe Kadıoğlu and E. Fuat Keyman

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 Sabancı 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Understanding Nationalism through Family Resemblances

             Ayşe Kadıoğlu and E. Fuat Keyman

Part I. Turkish Nationalism: Continuity and Change

1. Turkish Nationalism: From a System of Classification to a System of Solidarity

             Şerif Mardin

2. Nationalism in Turkey: Modernity, State, and Identity

             E. Fuat Keyman

3. The Twin Motives of Turkish Nationalism

             Ayşe Kadıoğlu

4. Nationalist Discourses in Turkey

             Tanıl Bora

5. The Changing Nature of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses, and the Struggle for Hegemony

             Umut Özkırımlı

Part II. Conservative Manifestations of Turkish Nationalism

6. The Genealogy of Turkish Nationalism: From Civic and Ethnic to Conservative Nationalism in Turkey

             Umut Uzer

7. On the Question of Islam and Nationalism in Turkey: Sources and Discourses

             Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasdağı

8. Turkish Nationalism and Sunni Islam in the Construction of Political Party Identities

             Simten Coşar

Part III. Kurdish Nationalism

9. Does Kurdish Nationalism Have a Navel?

             Hakan Özoğlu

10. Banditry to Disloyalty: Turkish Nationalisms and the Kurdish Question

             Mesut Yeğen

11. Toward a Nonstandard Story: The Kurdish Question and the Headscarf, Nationalism, and Iraq

             Murat Somer

12. Reframing the Nationalist Perspective: Kurdish Civil Society Activism in Europe

             Vera Eccarius-Kelly

Conclusion

             Ayşe Kadıoğlu and E. Fuat Keyman

References

List of Contributors

Index