A biopolitical perspective on national belonging in the early Turkish Republic

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ID12697246
AuthorsAllan Cooper Dell (0000-0001-8000-0809, Area Studies Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume25
Issue4
Pages581-602
Publication date2024-05-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTurkish Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-3849 • E-ISSN: 1743-9663
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14683849.2024.2340508
OpenAlexW4396808011
LanguageEN
References cited18

This article explores the degree to which citizenship in the early Turkish Republic was informed by a biopolitical logic of the administration of population as a social body. How this larger biopolitical logic is connected to understandings of the national project being 'modern' and/or 'scientific' is also explored, as well as how this approach is preferable to an account based on the perspective of Agamben. Furthermore, this analysis examines how limits to belonging were understood in the period, especially in relation to minority populations, and how they were categorized

Art · Biopower · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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