Alexandros Lamprou
Biographic Data
| ID | 4121152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandros Lamprou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandros |
| FAMILY NAME | Lamprou |
| SIGNATURE | LAMPROU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1211-9004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
European Refugees, Migrants and Exiles in the Middle East and North Africa, 19th‐20th Centuries: Sketching a New Research Field
The displacement from Europe to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) since the late 19th century has only recently attracted the interest of historians. The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the two world wars and postwar decolonisation constitute some of the turning points in this history of displacement that connects the MENA region to Europe. This special issue looks at the societies of the Middle East and North Africa as spaces of arrival…
Humanitarian Agents, Colonial Officials, and the Greek State
This article studies the negotiation of sexuality among Greek refugees in the Middle East and Africa during World War II. It explores the ways wartime displacement and the colonial space conditioned the body politics, specifically the negotiation of sexuality, between refugees, colonial and nation state officials, and humanitarian agencies. The colonial context of displacement offered refugees opportunities to negotiate their sexuality against th…
Christine M. Philliou, Turkey: A Past Against History
Review of Christine M. Philliou, Turkey: A Past Against History, Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 294 pp
Christians, Muslims, and Jews: Turkey and the management of refugees from Greece during World War II
Approximately 70,000 people were displaced from Greece to Turkey and the Middle East during World War II. Following a presentation of the geography, statistics, and timeframe of the displacement, and Turkey’s interwar demographic policies, the article studies Turkey’s management of this refugee movement. Based on Greek, Turkish, and British archival material, the article argues that Turkish wartime refugee policy took shape in the intersection of…
The Population Exchange and Politics in the Historiography of Turkey and Greece
This is a historiographical essay about the impact of the population exchange on the political sphere in Greece and Turkey. Notwithstanding the asymmetry in the literature produced in the two countries—excessive in Greece and limited in Turkey—there have been two seminal narratives regarding the impact of the exchange on interwar politics. In regard to Greece, the political cleavage between refugees and locals is shown as the basic factor shaping…
The journal İnkılâp and the appeal of antisemitism in interwar Turkey
The article is a study of the reception of antisemitism, and its appeal among Turkish nationalists and state elites in the 1930s and 1940s. Based on a closed reading of the investigation of İnkılâp, the first antisemitic journal published in Turkey, by state bureaucrats in 1933, the article argues that antisemitism in the 1930s offered Turkish nationalist actors of competing convictions a tool to legitimize contending versions of Turkish national…
Local Politics and State-Society Relations: State Officials, Local Elites, and Political Networks in Provincial Urban Centres in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey
The historiography of Turkey has until recently exhibited a solid state bias in the study of the formative years of the republic. Conversely, the intersection of the state with local power networks has been understudied. This paper studies the dynamics of local political networks as exemplified in the case study of Esat Adil Müstecaplıoğlu, an exceptional case of a local political broker with leftist leanings in a provincial urban setting in the …
Political petitioning, denunciation, and state–society relations during the single-party period in Turkey
Through a close reading of hitherto untapped archival sources, this article looks at the 1939 Turkish elections and argues that through extensive denunciation, petitioning, and an unofficial pre-election procedure, provincial urbanites had local candidates selected as MPs while discarding candidates proposed by Ankara. Petitioning and clandestine but extensive mobilization from below had an impact on state–society relations, state policies, and p…
Negotiating Gender Identities during Mixed-Gender Activities: Amateur Theatre in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey
This article focuses on the amateur theatre of the People's House and the consumption of state-promoted mixed-gender activities in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey. The People's Houses were community centres established in many Turkish towns between 1932 and 1950. They performed activities in adult education and political indoctrination with the chief aim to propagate the socio-cultural changes the state had been initiating since 1923. Drawing on co…
Nationalist Mobilization and State–Society Relations: The People's Houses' Campaign for Turkish in Izmir, June–July 1934
This article studies the campaign against the use of non-Turkish languages that was organized by local forces in Izmir in 1934. In contextualizing the campaign within domestic politics and state–society relation, the article attempts to study domestic politics through a local perspective and explore the impact that similar events in the periphery had in the centre's policies, which the literature is usually inclined to comprehend solely with refe…
The journal İnkılâp and the appeal of antisemitism in interwar Turkey
The article is a study of the reception of antisemitism, and its appeal among Turkish nationalists and state elites in the 1930s and 1940s. Based on a closed reading of the investigation of İnkılâp, the first antisemitic journal published in Turkey, by state bureaucrats in 1933, the article argues that antisemitism in the 1930s offered Turkish nationalist actors of competing convictions a tool to legitimize contending versions of Turkish national…
Political petitioning, denunciation, and state–society relations during the single-party period in Turkey
Through a close reading of hitherto untapped archival sources, this article looks at the 1939 Turkish elections and argues that through extensive denunciation, petitioning, and an unofficial pre-election procedure, provincial urbanites had local candidates selected as MPs while discarding candidates proposed by Ankara. Petitioning and clandestine but extensive mobilization from below had an impact on state–society relations, state policies, and p…
Nationalist Mobilization and State–Society Relations: The People's Houses' Campaign for Turkish in Izmir, June–July 1934
This article studies the campaign against the use of non-Turkish languages that was organized by local forces in Izmir in 1934. In contextualizing the campaign within domestic politics and state–society relation, the article attempts to study domestic politics through a local perspective and explore the impact that similar events in the periphery had in the centre's policies, which the literature is usually inclined to comprehend solely with refe…
Negotiating Gender Identities during Mixed-Gender Activities: Amateur Theatre in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey
This article focuses on the amateur theatre of the People's House and the consumption of state-promoted mixed-gender activities in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey. The People's Houses were community centres established in many Turkish towns between 1932 and 1950. They performed activities in adult education and political indoctrination with the chief aim to propagate the socio-cultural changes the state had been initiating since 1923. Drawing on co…
Nationalist Mobilization and State–Society Relations: The People's Houses' Campaign for Turkish in Izmir, June–July 1934
This article studies the campaign against the use of non-Turkish languages that was organized by local forces in Izmir in 1934. In contextualizing the campaign within domestic politics and state–society relation, the article attempts to study domestic politics through a local perspective and explore the impact that similar events in the periphery had in the centre's policies, which the literature is usually inclined to comprehend solely with refe…
Negotiating Gender Identities during Mixed-Gender Activities: Amateur Theatre in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey
This article focuses on the amateur theatre of the People's House and the consumption of state-promoted mixed-gender activities in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey. The People's Houses were community centres established in many Turkish towns between 1932 and 1950. They performed activities in adult education and political indoctrination with the chief aim to propagate the socio-cultural changes the state had been initiating since 1923. Drawing on co…
Political petitioning, denunciation, and state–society relations during the single-party period in Turkey
Through a close reading of hitherto untapped archival sources, this article looks at the 1939 Turkish elections and argues that through extensive denunciation, petitioning, and an unofficial pre-election procedure, provincial urbanites had local candidates selected as MPs while discarding candidates proposed by Ankara. Petitioning and clandestine but extensive mobilization from below had an impact on state–society relations, state policies, and p…
Local Politics and State-Society Relations: State Officials, Local Elites, and Political Networks in Provincial Urban Centres in the 1930s and 1940s in Turkey
The historiography of Turkey has until recently exhibited a solid state bias in the study of the formative years of the republic. Conversely, the intersection of the state with local power networks has been understudied. This paper studies the dynamics of local political networks as exemplified in the case study of Esat Adil Müstecaplıoğlu, an exceptional case of a local political broker with leftist leanings in a provincial urban setting in the …
The journal İnkılâp and the appeal of antisemitism in interwar Turkey
The article is a study of the reception of antisemitism, and its appeal among Turkish nationalists and state elites in the 1930s and 1940s. Based on a closed reading of the investigation of İnkılâp, the first antisemitic journal published in Turkey, by state bureaucrats in 1933, the article argues that antisemitism in the 1930s offered Turkish nationalist actors of competing convictions a tool to legitimize contending versions of Turkish national…
The Population Exchange and Politics in the Historiography of Turkey and Greece
This is a historiographical essay about the impact of the population exchange on the political sphere in Greece and Turkey. Notwithstanding the asymmetry in the literature produced in the two countries—excessive in Greece and limited in Turkey—there have been two seminal narratives regarding the impact of the exchange on interwar politics. In regard to Greece, the political cleavage between refugees and locals is shown as the basic factor shaping…
Christine M. Philliou, Turkey: A Past Against History
Review of Christine M. Philliou, Turkey: A Past Against History, Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 294 pp
Christians, Muslims, and Jews: Turkey and the management of refugees from Greece during World War II
Approximately 70,000 people were displaced from Greece to Turkey and the Middle East during World War II. Following a presentation of the geography, statistics, and timeframe of the displacement, and Turkey’s interwar demographic policies, the article studies Turkey’s management of this refugee movement. Based on Greek, Turkish, and British archival material, the article argues that Turkish wartime refugee policy took shape in the intersection of…
Humanitarian Agents, Colonial Officials, and the Greek State
This article studies the negotiation of sexuality among Greek refugees in the Middle East and Africa during World War II. It explores the ways wartime displacement and the colonial space conditioned the body politics, specifically the negotiation of sexuality, between refugees, colonial and nation state officials, and humanitarian agencies. The colonial context of displacement offered refugees opportunities to negotiate their sexuality against th…
European Refugees, Migrants and Exiles in the Middle East and North Africa, 19th‐20th Centuries: Sketching a New Research Field
The displacement from Europe to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) since the late 19th century has only recently attracted the interest of historians. The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the two world wars and postwar decolonisation constitute some of the turning points in this history of displacement that connects the MENA region to Europe. This special issue looks at the societies of the Middle East and North Africa as spaces of arrival…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (7 works) · Law (6 works) · State (computer science (6 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works)