Turkey's Engagement with Modernity - (St Antony's) by S Kerslake & K Öktem & P Robins (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated.

Review Quotes

'...does exactly what it promises...[it] will undoubtedly become a textbook that will be addressed in many political science courses in Turkey, and around the globe... It must be stated that the volume is a valuable and inspiring contribution to the existing academic literature on Turkey and will surely find its place in the syllabi of aspiring scholars of Turkey.' - Turkish Policy Quarterly

About the Author

FEROZ AHMAD Professor and Head of the Department of History, Yeditepe University, Turkey HALIS AKDER Professor in the Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey ?AHIN ALPAY Professor of Politics, Bahçe?ehir University, Turkey EMRE ARACI is a freelance composer, conductor and musicologist based in the UK YE?IM ARAT Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bo?aziçi University, Turkey SENCER AYATA Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey HENRI J. BARKLEY Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, USA MURAT BELGE Professor of Comparative Literature, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey SIBEL BOZDO?AN Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, USA NÜKET ESEN Head of Department and Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at Bo?aziçi University, Turkey BENJAMIN C. FORTNA Head of the Department of History and Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental& African Studies (SOAS), UK ZEHRA F. KABASAKAL ARAT Juanita and Jospeh Leff Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Purchase College of the State University of New York (SUNY), USA ERSIN KALAYCIO?LU Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Sabanc? University, USA IAN LESSER Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the UnitedStates ANDREW MANGO is a leading expert on Turkey. LEYLA NEYZI Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanc? University, Turkey AY?E ÖNCÜ Professor, Sabanc? University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Turkey ELISABETH ÖZDALGA Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey JENNY WHITE Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, USA NURI YURDUSEV Professor of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Turkey ERIK-JAN ZÜRCHER Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands