Turkey in Turmoil : : Social Change and Political Radicalization during the 1960s /

Turkey in Turmoil : : Social Change and Political Radicalization during the 1960s / / ed. by Berna Pekesen.

The essays in this book are the first scholarly attempt to examine the complex interrelation of social change and political radicalization during the 1960s. In analyzing topics ranging from the 1968 student uprising, working class politics and trade unionism, Anti-Americanism, right-wing and left-wi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Batuman, Bülent,
Bora, Tanıl,
Bozarslan, Hamit,
Erman, Tahire,
Gürel, Burak,
Keyder, Çağlar,
Köse, Yavuz,
Massicard, Elise,
Mello, Brian,
Pekesen, Berna,
Ramm, Christoph,
Schuß, Heiko,
Schweißgut, Karin,
White, Jenny,
HerausgeberIn:
Pekesen, Berna,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 331 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Social Change and Political Mobilization in the 1960s
  • Part I: Social Change: Sources of Radicalization
  • Economic Policy and Interest Groups
  • Alevis in the 1960s. From Mobility to Mobilization
  • “Coca Cola is Poison, Don’t Drink It!” – From Enthusiasm to Hostility: American Consumer Goods, Tourists and Hippies in Cold War Turkey
  • Radicalization and/or Reformism in Working Class Politics
  • Part II: Rationale and Characteristics of Violence
  • From Kemalism to the Armed Struggle: Radicalization of the Left in the 1960s
  • Narrating The Enemy: Image and Perception of the “Communists” Among the Radical Right
  • Civil War and Massacre in Maraş 1978
  • “Liberated Neighborhoods”: Reconstructing Leftist Activism in the Urban Periphery
  • Part III: Symbols, Rituals, Artistic Manifestation
  • Shared History, Divided Memory? “1968” in the Narratives of Women Activists
  • Objects of Hate? Architectural Symbols of the Rich in Turkey in the 1960s
  • Turkey’s “Light” Rock Revolution – Anadolu Pop, Political Music, and the Quest for the Authentic
  • Encountering Poverty: Representation of the Gecekondus in Turkish Literature
  • Turkey in the 1970s: The Cultural Logic of Factionalism
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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