Turkey in Turmoil

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020

Turkey in Turmoil

Social Change and Political Radicalization during the 1960s

Edited by: Berna Pekesen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654509

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About this book

The essays in this book are the first scholarly attempt to examine the complex interrelation of social change and political radicalization during the 1960s. In analyzing topics ranging from the 1968 student uprising, working class politics and trade unionism, Anti-Americanism, right-wing and left-wing militant action, communitarian violence, state coercion, and the artistic representation of these phenomena the contributors offer insights to help to answer why the experiences of this decade turned so radical with lasting polarizing effects on contemporary Turkish society today.
Even though issues surrounding the topic are at the very center of intellectual and political debates in today´s Turkey, such as the collective remembrance of the Turkish “68ers” and of the anti-communist state persecution and prosecution after the military intervention in 1980, a cohesive analysis of this era is still strikingly absent in scholarly works. Thus, “Turkey in Turmoil” is unique in many regards. As important as the presented diversity in research perspectives, the volume will also showcase multiple and, at some point, contesting and even provocative perspectives on the subject at hand.

Author information

Berna Pekesen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Berna Pekesen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Social Change and Political Mobilization in the 1960s Çağlar Keyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Part I: Social Change: Sources of Radicalization
Economic Policy and Interest Groups Heiko Schuß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Alevis in the 1960s. From Mobility to Mobilization Elise Massicard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
“Coca Cola is Poison, Don’t Drink It!” – From Enthusiasm to Hostility: American Consumer Goods, Tourists and Hippies in Cold War Turkey Yavuz Köse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Radicalization and/or Reformism in Working Class Politics Brian Mello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Part II: Rationale and Characteristics of Violence
From Kemalism to the Armed Struggle: Radicalization of the Left in the 1960s Hamit Bozarslan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Narrating The Enemy: Image and Perception of the “Communists” Among the Radical Right Tanıl Bora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Civil War and Massacre in Maraş 1978 Burak Gürel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
“Liberated Neighborhoods”: Reconstructing Leftist Activism in the Urban Periphery Tahire Erman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part III: Symbols, Rituals, Artistic Manifestation
Shared History, Divided Memory? “1968” in the Narratives of Women Activists Berna Pekesen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Objects of Hate? Architectural Symbols of the Rich in Turkey in the 1960s Bülent Batuman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Turkey’s “Light” Rock Revolution – Anadolu Pop, Political Music, and the Quest for the Authentic Christoph Ramm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Encountering Poverty: Representation of the Gecekondus in Turkish Literature Karin Schweißgut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Turkey in the 1970s: The Cultural Logic of Factionalism Jenny White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 331
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Memory; Cold War; Turkey; Contemporary history

eBook

Published: June 22, 2020
ISBN: 9783110654509

Hardcover

Published: June 22, 2020
ISBN: 9783110650396