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1 online resource |
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1 The AKP’s Civilizational Populist Authoritarianism and Necropolitics; Introduction; Three Pillars of Authoritarian Stability; Civilizational Populism; Necropolitics; The Civilizational Populist Necropolitics in the AKP Authoritarianism; Structure of the Book -- Part I Civilizational Populist Necropolitical Propaganda -- 2 Martyrdom and Martyr-Icons in Turkish Politics; Introduction; Kemalism and Martyrs; Kemalists’ Martyr Hero Icon Kubilay -- Hide Level3 Martyrdom in the Erdoğanist AKP’s Politics; Introduction; Erdoğanism and Martyrs; Erdoğanists’ Martyr-Icons -- Hide Level4 Necropolitical Sermons; Introduction; Militarism in the Friday Sermons from Kemalist to Erdoğanist Times; Jihadism in Friday Sermons; Martyrdom in Friday Sermons -- Hide Level5 The Use of TV Series for Civilizational Populist Necropolitical Propaganda; Introduction; The State’s Use of TV Series from Kemalist to Erdoğanist Times; The TV Series as a Means of Necropolitical Re-Production; Glorifying Death, Beheading, Martyrdom, and Graves in a Jihadist Context -- Hide Level6 Targeting Children via Education for Populist Necropolitical Propaganda; Introduction; The Necropolitical National Curriculum from Kemalism to Erdoğanism; Jihad and Martyrdom as Necropolitical Instruments in Texts; Civilizational Populist Necropolitical Investment at the Schools; Glorification of Martyrdom in Diyanet’s Children’s Magazines and Comics -- Part II Necropolitics in Authoritarian Action -- 7 Necropolitics and AKP’s Blame Avoidance; Introduction; Blame Avoidance Tactics; Redefine, Reshape, Spin, and Manipulate the Blame; Impose Restrictions on Access to Opposing Voices and Media; Turn Blame into Credit; Bargaining via Rewards -- Hide Level8 Necropolitics and Martyrdom in AKP’s Authoritarian Stability; Introduction; Necropolitics and Repression; Necropolitics and Legitimation for Authoritarianism; Necropolitics and Co-optation -- Part III Necropolitics and Turkish Society -- 9 Necropolitics and Turkish Society; Introduction; ‘Tell Us to Kill, We Will Kill; Tell Us to Die, We Will Die’; Sacrificing Life for Erdoğan and His Religious Cause (da’wa) -- Hide Level10 The Authoritarian Role of Necropolitics and Martyrdom in Turkey Under AKP Rule |
| Summary |
This book examines how Turkeys ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule. In doing so, the book argues that as the party transitioned from socially conservative Muslim democratic values to authoritarian Islamism, it embraced a necropolitical narrative based on the promotion of martyrdom, and of killing and dying for the Turkish nation and Islam, as part of their authoritarian legitimation. This narrative, the book shows, is used by the party to legitimise its actions and deflect its failures through the framing of the deaths of Turkish soldiers and civilians, which have occurred due to the AKPs political errors, as martyrdom events in which loyal servants of the Turkish Republic and God gave their lives in order to protect the nation in a time of great crisis. This book also describes how, throughout its second decade in power, the AKP has used Turkeys education system, its Directorate of Religious Affairs, and television programs in order to propagate its necropolitical martyrdom narrative. Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Omer Erturk is an Independent Researcher in Berlin, Germany, with an interest area focused on Turkish politics, Islamist movements in Turkey, relations between politics and religion, radicalism and autocracy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2023) |
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AK Parti (Turkey)
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| SUBJECT |
AK Parti (Turkey) fast |
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Populism -- Turkey
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Martyrdom.
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Martyrdom
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Populism
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Erturk, Omer, author
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| ISBN |
9789811982927 |
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9811982929 |
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