The reform of language has always been an important tool employed during the construction of a national identity. According to the modernist approach in the academic literature of nationalism, the supposedly timeless historical existence of a nation’s language, offered as proof of the continuous cultural evolutionof a society since the ancient times, is used by nationalistic ideologies to build modern nation-states. In Turkey, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the reformation of Turkish became linked to the process of building a modern Turkish nation, and then for defining the cultural identity of the society with which it had to be associated. Nationalism appeared in the Ottoman Empire, and increased in the Republic of Turkey, as a result of the need to gather an ethnically diverse society under one commonly constructed social-political identity. Whether this constructed identity would remain linked to traditional Islamic culture or shift towards modern western civilization was an important area of competition among the various groups aiming to shape society based on their agendas.
In this book, the relationship between the reformation of Turkish and the construction of Turkish nationalism that occurred between 1928 and 1938 is explored from the perspective of Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson’s modernist approaches. This book will argue that the language reform in Turkey, which was used to create the modern Turkish identity, is a combination of imagined projects and invented policies.
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Kitabın Adı: |
A Modernist Approach Towards Turkish Nationalism: The Case of Language Policies in Early Republican Turkey |
Yazan: |
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Dizi Adı: |
History-170 |
Baskı Adedi: |
100 |
Yayın Yılı: |
2016 |
Sayfa: |
185 |
Ebat: |
13.5 x 21 cm. |
Kağıt: |
Enzo 70gr. |
Kapak: |
Bora Gürsoy |
Cilt/Kapak: |
250 gr. Mat, Amerikan Bristrol, 4 renk |
ISBN/Barkod: |
978-605-9022-92-7 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
THEORIES OF NATIONALISM
TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRADITIONAL OTTOMAN SYSTEM
Introduction
Approaches to the theory of nationalism
The Primordialist Approach
The Modernist Approach
The Ethno-Symbolist Approach
Conclusion
CHAPTER III
THE MODERNİSTS: GELLNER AND ANDERSON
Introduction
The Modernists
Modernism and Ernest Gellner (1925-1996)
Introduction
Modernity
Gellner's view of Nationalism
Some Evaluations of Gellner
Ernest Gellner 'Nation and Nationalism'
Modernism and Benedict Anderson (1936-2015)
Introduction
Modernism
Nationalism
Benedict Anderson "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism"
Conclusion
CHAPTER IV
THE ORIGINS OF NATIONALISM IN ANATOLIA DURING THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Introduction
The Development of Nationalism during the Ottoman Period
The First Phase of Constructing an Ottoman Identity
The Construction of Turkish National Identity
The influence of 'Ittihat ve Terraki', the 'Committee of Union and Progress'
Conclusion: From the 'invention' of the Ottoman Heritage to the 'imagined' Turkish Identity
CHAPTER V
THE KEMALIST LANGUAGE REFORM IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
Introduction
The Birth of the New Turkish Republic and Kemalist Modernism
The Kemalist Language Reform
Language Reform During the Early Kemalist Period (1923-1930)
Language Reform During the The Late Kemalist Period (1930-1938)
Conclusion: The Death of Mustafa Kemal and the End of the Late Kemalist Period
CHAPTER VI
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
