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Author Kezer, Zeynep, author.

Title Building modern Turkey : state, space, and ideology in the early republic / Zeynep Kezer
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015

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Series Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Contents Introduction: Ambivalences and Anxieties -- Part I. Forging a New Identity -- Political Capital -- Theaters of Diplomacy -- Part II. Erasures in the Land -- Dismantling the Landscapes of Islam -- Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places -- Part III. An Imaginable Community -- Nationalizing Space -- Manufacturing Turkish Citizens -- Epilogue
Summary "Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Zeynep Kezer argues that the deliberate dismantling of ethnic and religious enclaves and the spatial practices that ensued were as integral to conjuring up a sense of national unity and facilitating the operations of a modern nation-state as were the creation of a new capital, Ankara, and other sites and services that embodied a new modern way of life. The book breaks new ground by examining both the creative and destructive forces at play in the making of modern Turkey and by addressing the overwhelming frictions during this profound transformation and their long-term consequences. By considering spatial transformations at different scales--from the experience of the individual self in space to that of international geopolitical disputes--Kezer also illuminates the concrete and performative dimensions of fortifying a political ideology, one that instills in the population a sense of membership in and allegiance to the nation above all competing loyalties and ensures its longevity"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cultural pluralism -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Ideology -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Nation-state -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism and architecture -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Space (Architecture) -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Architecture and society -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Architecture and state -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
ARCHITECTURE -- General.
Architecture and society
Architecture and state
Cultural pluralism
Ideology -- Political aspects
Nationalism and architecture
Politics and government
Social change
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138848
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822981190
082298119X