Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atatürk and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Tu...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Metinsoy, Murat 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
Schlagworte:	Kemalism Social change / Turkey / History / 20th century Government, Resistance to / Turkey / History / 20th century Poor / Political activity / Turkey / History / 20th century Turkey / Politics and government / 1918-1960
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atatürk and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political change of Turkey as much as Atatürk's strong spurt of modernization. Adopting a broader conception of politics, focusing on daily interactions between the state and society and using untapped archival sources, Murat Metinsoy reveals how rural and urban people coped with the state policies, local oppression, exploitation, and adverse conditions wrought by the Great Depression through diverse everyday survival and resistance strategies. Showing how the people's daily practices and beliefs survived and outweighed the modernizing elite's projects, this book gives new insights into the social and historical origins of Turkey's backslide to conservative and Islamist politics, demonstrating that the making of modern Turkey was an outcome of intersection between the modernization and the people's responses to
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Dec 2021) Introduction : toward an infrahistory of republican Turkey -- The price of the republic for the peasants -- Raising voice and rural discontent -- Resisting the agricultural taxes -- Social smuggling : resistance to the monopolies -- Theft, violence and banditry -- The price of the republic for the working class -- Labor discontent -- Survival struggles and everyday resistance -- Violence, protests and walkouts -- The hotbeds of opposition to anti-secularism : mosques, coffehouses and homes -- Informal media vs. official discourse : word of mouth, rumors and placaords -- Neither fez, nor hat : contesting the hat reform -- Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns -- Old habits die hard : tenacity of old lifestyles in new times -- Epilogue : infrastructure of Turkey's modernization
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xi, 405 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009025775
DOI:	10.1017/9781009025775