Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey
Cambridge University Press, 5/27/2021
EAN 9781108832557, ISBN10: 1108832555
Hardcover, 250 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
For decades after the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish state promoted the idea of a desired citizen. The Kemalist state treated these citizens as superior, with full rights; but the 'others', those outside this desired citizenship, were either tolerated or considered undesirable citizens. And this caused the marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, religious Muslims and leftists alike. In this book, Ihsan Yilmaz shows how historical traumas, victimhood, insecurities, anxieties, fears and siege mentality have negatively impacted on and radicalised the nation-building projects of the two competing hegemonic ideologies/regimes (those of Ataturk and Erdogan) and their treatment of majority and minority ethnic, religious and political groups. Yilmaz reveals the significant degree of overlap between the desired, undesired citizen and tolerated citizen categories of these two regimes, showing how both regimes aimed to create a perception of a homogenous Turkish nation.
1. Anxious Nation and Its Ambivalent Westernism
Part I. Kemalism and its Desired, Undesired, Tolerated Citizens
2. The Rise and Consolidation of the Kemalist Hegemony
3. Kemalism's Desired Citizens
4. Kemalism's Undesired Citizens
5. Creating Kemalism's Tolerated Citizens via Diyanet
Part II. Emergence of the Counter-Hegemony
ErdoÄŸanism
6. Turkish Islamism and the Emergence of ErdoÄŸanist Authoritarianism
7. What is ErdoÄŸanism?
Part III. Creating ErdoÄŸanism's Desired Citizens via Popular Culture and Education
8. ErdoÄŸanism's Desired Citizen
9. Creating ErdoÄŸanism's Desired Citizens via Popular Culture
10. Creating ErdoÄŸanism's Desired Citizens via Education
Part IV. ErdoÄŸanism's Undesired Citizens
11. ErdoÄŸanism's Undesired Citizens
Part V. Creating ErdoÄŸanism's Tolerated Citizens via Diyanet
12. Creating ErdoÄŸanism's Tolerated Citizens via Diyanet
13. The Use of Friday Sermons in Creating ErdoÄŸanism's Tolerated Citizens
14. The Future of ErdoÄŸan's Nation.