Humbling Turkishness

Undoing the Strategies of Exclusion and Inclusion of Turkish Modernity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4300935
AutoresIpek Demir (0000-0002-3940-8594, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume27
Fascículo3
Páginas381-401
Data de publicação2014-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/johs.12054
OpenAlexW1537446649
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas39

Kurds make up about a fifth of Turkey's population. Turkey has taken steps - albeit slowly and reluctantly - towards increased recognition of Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights. However, within Turkey there is also a steeply rising tide of Turkish nationalism, prejudice and intolerance towards Kurds, and increasing anti-Kurdish sentiment. This article brings studies of Kurdishness and Turkishness into a single conversation and traces the relationship between Turkish modernity, Orientalized Kurdishness and the construction of Turkishness as the efendi (master) identity. It does this by drawing attention to "strategies of exclusion and inclusion" in the construction of official Turkish history, and relates these to the way in which the tense borders between Kurds and Turks are maintained and currently reproduced. It also presents a normative argument in favour of "humbling Turkishness" and "solidarity trading zones

Epistemology · Inclusion (mineral · Linguistics · Modernity · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Turkish · Undoing · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society