Small Towns in Turkey
Footnotes in Somebody Else's History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300997 |
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| Authors | Sezai Ozan Zeybek |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-115 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01391.x |
| OpenAlex | W1544841078 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article follows the trajectories by which modernity and development in Turkey have been constituted as an antagonism between villages and cities. Both inspired, albeit in opposing ways, modernising/ developmental ideals, and constituted the true locus of nationalist discourses. Meanwhile, small towns with shrinking populations, low-level capital accumulation and limited jobs have been left invisible. They have been depicted as irrelevant places of the same essence, which had nothing to add to the story. As such, the article is an analysis of how the Republican history is constructed as a narrative of an antagonism between the West and the East, backwardness and progress, modern and non-modern. What follows is an exploration of how provincial places and people, which are lumped together on either side of these binaries, are left out, silenced or marginalized
Ancient history · Art · Backwardness · Capital (architecture · Confusion · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Nationalism · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Turkey's Politics and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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