[ecrea] Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State

New book:

Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
Bilge Yesil
University of Illinois Press

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/63zrn5ey9780252040177.html

In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding 
and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence of 
global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to 
globalization's inroads and the recent resurgence of political Islam. 
Her analysis foregrounds how these and other forces become intertwined, 
and she uses Turkey's media to unpack the ever-more-complex 
relationships. Yesil confronts essential questions regarding: the role 
of the state and military in building the structures that shaped 
Turkey's media system; media adaptations to ever-shifting contours of 
political and economic power; how the far-flung economic interests of 
media conglomerates leave them vulnerable to state pressure; and the 
ways Turkey's politicized judiciary criminalizes certain speech.
Drawing on local knowledge and a wealth of Turkish sources, Yesil 
provides an engrossing look at the fault lines carved by 
authoritarianism, tradition, neoliberal reform, and globalization within 
Turkey's increasingly far-reaching media.

Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1. Politics and Culture in Turkey
Chapter 2. Political Economic Transformation of Media in the 1990s
Chapter 3. Containing Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in the 1990s
Chapter 4. The AKP Era: Between the Market and the State
Chapter 5. The Remaking of the Media-Military-State Relationships in the 
Early Twenty-First Century
Chapter 6. Gezi Park Protests, Corruption Investigation, and the Control 
of the Online Public Sphere
Conclusion
Epilogue

Reviews:

"The rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey since the 
early 2000s and its overseeing of a growing economy and a forceful 
foreign policy have been one of the key forces shaping the Middle East 
in a turbulent decade bookended by the September 11 attacks and the Arab 
Uprisings. In Media in New Turkey, Yesil explores and explains the 
growth of Turkish media, its travails with the government, and its 
forays in the Middle East and Central Asia. Deftly eschewing media 
determinism, Yesil approaches Turkish media as a site of struggle 
between various strands of democratic and authoritarian politics, 
Islamism and neoliberalism. Both in its approach to the topic and in the 
important insights it provides, this book will be an original and 
lasting contribution to the literature on media, culture, and politics 
within and beyond the Middle East."--Marwan Kraidy, author of Reality 
Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life

  "It is a real treat to read a work on the Middle Eastern media that 
shows the sociological sophistication employed by Bilge Yesil. This book 
is packed with stimulating ideas on Turkish media, state, and society 
that cut through the familiar mind-numbing clichés. Not only categories 
that have served Middle East experts for so long, but also the myth of 
Turkish Model dissolves under her scrutiny. This is a timely book and a 
must-read for students of international communications and any students 
interested in the contemporary Middle East."--Gholam Khiabany, author of 
Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity

Bio: Bilge Yesil is an associate professor of media culture at City 
University of New York, College of Staten Island. She is the author of 
Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life.

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Bilge Yesil
Associate Professor
Department of Media Culture
College of Staten Island, CUNY
@bilgeyesil1

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