Carrying Our Country to the World

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ID4871778
AuthorsRüstem Ertuğ Altınay (0000-0002-3612-7199)
Year2017
Volume2017
Issue129
Pages103-124
Publication date2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-3920703
OpenAlexW2765995449
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited19

In the Cold War era, as Turkey negotiated its place in a changing global order, tourism emerged as an important site of diplomacy. The amalgamation of tourism and diplomacy reached its peak during the cruise organized by the Turkey Tourism Association with the ocean liner Tarsus in 1954. The main destination of the cruise was the United States. Alongside an exhibition on the ship's deck promoting Turkey, the Tarsus also carried fashion models and musicians, staging performances to introduce the "people of the free world" to the "friendly nation Turkey." The imaginary relationship between the female body and national identity put women at the forefront of the cruise's cultural diplomacy efforts. The case of the Tarsus reveals how social identities, spaces, and histories are performatively constructed in the context of tourism and how these processes both reproduce and challenge the broader systems and manifestations of power

Archaeology · Cruise · Diplomacy · Economy · Exhibition · Geography · Nation branding · Political science · Politics · The Imaginary · Tourism · Engineering · Historical Turkish Studies · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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