2003 PB Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide by Güzeldere, Güven

Güzeldere, Güven; Irz?k, Sibel

ISBN 10: 082236557X / ISBN 13: 9780822365570

Published by Duke University Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 2003 PB Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide by Güzeldere, Güven
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082236557X
• ISBN 13: 9780822365570
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 32 ounces

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Synopsis

Islamic but secular, ambivalent about its Ottoman past, and anxious for membership in the European Union, Turkey seems to be easily cast—in terms of its geographical and cultural situatedness—as a bridge between the East and the West. However, Relocating the Fault Lines asserts that contemporary Turkey can no longer be defined by such a simple framework.

In recent decades, Turkish economy, society, and culture have undergone intense changes affected by influences other than Western modernity. Issues of national identity are being transformed by such phenomena as the rise of political Islam, integration into a global economy, ethnic conflict, and women’s struggles for autonomy. This special issue of SAQ explores how these redefinitions are occurring in the areas of art, literature, and popular culture as well as economy and politics. The essays examine the preoccupation of modern Turkish literature and popular culture with notions of imitation and authenticity, as well as the ways in which the country’s secularization serves to promote an "official Islam"

Contributors. Hülya Adak, Meltem Ahiska, Ayse Gül Altinay, Tanil Bora, Ayse Bugra, Ümit Cizre, Menderes Çinar, Andrew Davison, Tuna Erdem, Suna Ertugrul, Kathy Ewing, Erdag Göknar, Nurdan Gülalp, Sibel Irzik, Orhan Koçak, Bruce Kuniholm, Jale Parla, Nükhet Sirman, Levent Soysal, Necmi Zeka

About the Author

Guven Guzeldere is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Duke University. He is coeditor (with Ned Block and Owen Flanagan) of "The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical and Scientific Debates" (MIT Press, 1998) and a founding associate editor of "Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness".

Irzik is Associate Professor of English at Bogazici University.

Katherine Pratt Ewing is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

Andrew Davison received his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London in 1989. He was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne for six years before moving to Prince of Songkla University in Thailand in 1996. He has also taught in Bangkok, Khon Kaen, and Hanoi. His research interests include scripting languages, logic programming, visualization, and teaching methodologies. This latter topic led to an interest in teaching games programming in 1999. His O'Reilly book, "Killer Game Programming in Java", was published in 2005.