Today, nationalism and nationalist sentiments are becoming more and more pronounced, creating a global emergence of ethno-nationalist and religious fundamentalist identity conflicts. In the post-9/11 era of international terrorism, it is appropriate to suggest that nationalism will retain its central place in politics and local and world affairs for the foreseeable future. It is in this vein that there has been a recent upsurge of interest concerning the power of nationalist tendencies as one of the dominant ideologies of modern times. Symbiotic Antagonisms looks at the state-centric mode of modernisation in Turkey that has constituted the very foundation on which nationalism has acquired its ideological status and transformative power. The book documents a symposium held at Sabanci University, presenting nationalism as a multidimensional, multiactor-based phenomenon that functions as an ideology, a discourse, and a political strategy. Turkish, Kurdish, and Islamic nationalisms are systematically compared in this timely and significant work.
Ayse Kadioglu is a professor of political science at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. E. Fuat Keyman is a professor of international relations at Ko\u00e7 University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding Nationalism through Family Resemblances ~ Ayse Kadioglu and E. Fuat Keyman Part I. Turkish Nationalism: Continuity and Change 1. Turkish Nationalism: From a System of Classification? to a System of Solidarity ~ Serif Mardin 2. Nationalism in Turkey: Modernity, State, and Identity ~ E. Fuat Keyman 3. The Twin Motives of Turkish Nationalism ~ Ayse Kadioglu 4. Nationalist Discourses in Turkey ~ Tanil Bora 5. The Changing Nature of Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses, and the Struggle for Hegemony ~ Umut OEzkirimli Part II. Conservative Manifestations of Turkish Nationalism 6. The Genealogy of Turkish Nationalism: From Civic and Ethnic to Conservative Nationalism in Turkey ~ Umut Uzer 7. On the Question of Islam and Nationalism in Turkey: Sources and Discourses ~ Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasdagi 8. Turkish Nationalism and Sunni Islam in the Construction of Political Party Identities ~ Simten Cosar Part III. Kurdish Nationalism 9. Does Kurdish Nationalism Have a Navel? ~ Hakan OEzoglu 10. Banditry to Disloyalty: Turkish Nationalisms and the Kurdish Question ~ Mesut Yegen 11. Toward a Nonstandard Story: The Kurdish Question and the Headscarf, Nationalism, and Iraq ~ Murat Somer 12. Reframing the Nationalist Perspective: Kurdish Civil Society Activism in Europe ~ Vera Eccarius Kelly Conclusion ~ Ayse Kadioglu and E. Fuat Keyman References? List of Contributors Index?
"The authors address the most salient problems and challenges confronting the Republic of Turkey since its inception in 1923... [and] use the latest and most informed theoretical models and conceptual paradigms to buttress their arguments. A first-rate scholarly contribution not just regarding conceptual issues of Turkish nationalism, but on the specialty topic of nationalism itself."--Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
