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Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad

Three varieties of Kemalist urbanism

Bibliographic Data

ID4481876
AuthorsC Houston (0000-0003-1398-0100, Macquarie University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume121
Issue1
Pages57-75
Publication date2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513614526157
OpenAlexW2005465197
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited24

Kemalism has been the guiding and justifying ideology of the Turkish Republic since its institution in 1923. That Kemalism is exclusive to Turkey is a mainstay of Kemalist self-perception. But was (or is) Kemalism as political practice pursued by other regimes in the region? This paper argues that Kemalism should also be understood as a project of urbanism, and that urban interventions into Ankara, Tehran and Baghdad in the 20th century transformed all three into Kemalist cities. To illustrate, I describe certain features of their spatial, symbolic and sensory re-organization. My concluding remarks address the radically divergent fate of Kemalist urbanism in the contemporary cities of Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara

Institution · Turkish republic · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Turkey's Politics and Society

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,08
Citation span2014 - 2014 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1
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