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Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey

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Editors:
  1. Catharina Raudvere

    1. Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  2. Petek Onur

    1. Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • Shifts historical understanding of neo-Ottoman ideology away from politics
  • Analyzes the relationship between mass media and cultural hegemony
  • Offers new perspectives on contemporary Turkey and gender

Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. “I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans”: Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries—An Introduction

    • Catharina Raudvere, Petek Onur
    Pages 1-32

  3. Neo-Ottomanism versus Ottomania: Contestation of Gender in Historical Drama

    • Murat Ergin, Yağmur Karakaya
    Pages 33-55

  4. Lovers of the Rose: Islamic Affect and the Politics of Commemoration in Turkish Museal Display

    • Torsten Janson
    Pages 57-97

  5. Between Memory and Forgetting and Purity and Danger: The Case of the Ulucanlar Prison Museum

    • Courtney Dorroll
    Pages 99-123

  6. Architectures of Domination? The Sacralisation of Modernity and the Limits of Ottoman Islamism

    • Kerem Öktem
    Pages 125-153

  7. Claiming the Neo-Ottoman Mosque: Islamism, Gender, Architecture

    • Bülent Batuman
    Pages 155-173

  8. Commemorating the First World War and Its Aftermath: Neo-Ottomanism, Gender, and the Politics of History in Turkey

    • Nazan Maksudyan, Hilal Alkan
    Pages 175-208

  9. The New Ottoman Henna Nights and Women in the Palace of Nostalgia

    • Petek Onur
    Pages 209-236

  10. Post-truth and Anti-science in Turkey: Putting It into Perspective

    • Hande Eslen-Ziya
    Pages 237-256

  11. Mixed Marriage Patterns in Istanbul: Gendering Ethno-religious Boundaries

    • Özgür Kaymak
    Pages 257-283

  12. Neo-Ottoman Intersections: The Politics of Gender in a Transforming Turkey—An Afterword

    • Nora Fisher-Onar
    Pages 285-311

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 313-321
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About this book

This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means    of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to everyday concerns, as well as invoking an imperial past at the national level. In this mode of thinking, shaped around a polarised worldview, Republican ideals serve as a counter-image to the promoted splendour and harmony of the Ottomans. Yet, the stereotypical gender roles inextricably linked with this neo-Ottoman imaginary remain largely unacknowledged, dissimulated in the construction of the desire of an idealised past. Our adaption of a cultural studies perspective in this volume puts special emphasis on agency, gender, and authority. It provides a shared ground for the interrogation, through the contributions comprising this project of knowledge production about the past in light of what constitutes acceptable legitimacy in interpreting not only the canonical literature, but history at large.

 







Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Catharina Raudvere, Petek Onur

About the editors

Catharina Raudvere is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Petek Onur is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey

  • Editors: Catharina Raudvere, Petek Onur

  • Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08023-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08022-7Published: 14 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08025-8Published: 14 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08023-4Published: 13 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2523-7985

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 321

  • Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Modern History, Social History, History, general, European History

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