The (Silk) Road Less Travelled
East Asian Studies and National Identity Formation in Modern Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3896235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ceren Ergenç (0000-0003-1122-0036, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 51-72 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03921921221127137 |
| OpenAlex | W4307136297 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Regional studies in Turkey have long focused on Europe and the Middle East, with which Turkey has traditionally been associated. East Asian studies seem to remain out of the spotlight. This study claims firstly that different phases of Asian studies scholarship in Turkey have all been geared towards confirmation and validation of the process of Turkish national identity formation. Secondly, this process also reflects the Western-centrism of Turkish academic knowledge production.This paper presents a periodization of Asian Studies in Turkey in three phases to contextualize and demonstrate these claims. During the first phase of the early republican years, the first Sinology departments were expected to actively contribute to writing Turkish national history. Throughout the second phase of the Cold War years, Turkey found itself in both political and intellectual isolation. In the final phase of post-Cold War globalization, the scope of regional studies scholarship expanded to include East Asia. Despite this development, academic scholarship in Turkey still suffers from Western-centrism and it is not able to directly communicate with East Asia. Knowledge production on East Asia in Turkey is still filtered through the theoretical framework of the Western Anglophone academic world
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · East Asia · Economic geography · Geography · National identity · Political science · SILK · Telecommunications · Engineering · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Philippine History and Culture · Turkey's Politics and Society
Before and Beyond Divergence
The Great Divergence
Provincializing Europe
Asia Pacific studies in an age of global modernity
Areas and Ideas
The Point of Nonreturn
A World Compared, Destroyed, and Connected
Recent Developments in China–U.S. Cooperation in Science
Is “Region” Still Good to Think
Boundary displacement
Discovering History in China. American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Eternal Guests, Mimics, andDönme
The Idea of Asia and Its Ambiguities
Asia Redux
The Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950-1975
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |