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Author Iğsız, Aslı, 1971- author.

Title Humanism in ruins : entangled legacies of the Greek-Turkish population exchange / Aslı Iğsız
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 332 pages)
Contents By way of an introduction : the entangled legacies of a population exchange -- part I. Humanism and its discontents : biopolitics, politics of expertise, and the human family. Segregative biopolitics and the production of knowledge -- Liberal humanism, race, and the family of mankind -- part II. Of origins and "men" : family history, genealogy, and historicist humanism revisited. Heritage and family history -- Origins, biopolitics, and historicist humanism -- part III. Unity in diversity : culture, social cohesion, and liberal multiculturalism. Museumization of culture and alterity recognition -- Turkish-Islamic synthesis and coexistence after the 1980 military coup -- In lieu of a conclusion : cultural analysis in an age of securitarianism
Summary The 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange forcibly relocated one and a half million people: Muslims in Greece were resettled in Turkey, and Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey were moved to Greece. This landmark event set a legal precedent for population management on the basis of religious or ethnic difference. Similar segregative policies - such as creating walls, partitions, and apartheids - have followed in its wake. Strikingly, the exchange was purportedly enacted as a means to achieve peace. Humanism in Ruins maps the links between liberal discourses on peace and the legacies of this forced migration. Aslı Iğsız weaves together past and present, making visible the effects in Turkey across the ensuing century, of the 1923 exchange. Liberal humanism has responded to segregative policies by calling for coexistence and the acceptance of cultural diversity. Yet, as Iğsız makes clear, liberal humanism itself, with its ahistorical emphasis on a shared humanity, fails to confront an underlying racialized logic. This far-reaching and multilayered cultural history investigates what it means to be human--historically, socially, and politically. It delivers an urgent message about the politics of difference at a time when the reincarnation of fascism in different parts of the world invites citizens to participate in perpetuating a racialized and unequal world
Analysis 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange
Turkey
biopolitics
cultural policy
eugenics
humanism
racialized thinking
refugee crisis
segregation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Population transfers -- Turks -- History -- 20th century
Population transfers -- Greeks -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Turkey
Multiculturalism -- Turkey
Humanism -- History -- 20th century.
Biopolitics -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
Biopolitics
Cultural policy
Humanism
Multiculturalism
Politics and government
Population transfers -- Greeks
Population transfers -- Turks
SUBJECT Turkey -- Cultural policy
Turkey -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138842
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503606876
1503606872