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[Commlist] New Book: Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. A Critical History

Fri Oct 20 15:29:22 GMT 2023





Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History <https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087394>(University of Illinois Press, 2023) is out.

“Burçe Çelik’s book is a superbly documented contribution to the geopolitics of information. For all those interested in a non-Western perspective on global communication, it is an absolute must-read.”--Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam

The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communications and how it affected production and practice for oppressed populations like women, the working class, and ethnic and religious minorities. Moving from the mid-nineteenth century through today, Çelik places networks within the changing geopolitical landscape and the evolution of modern capitalism in relationship to struggles involving a range of social and political actors. Throughout, she challenges Anglo- and Eurocentric assumptions that see the non-West as an ahistorical imitation of, or aberration from, the development of Western communications.

Ambitious and comprehensive, /Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire/ merges political economy with social history to challenge Western-centered assumptions about the origins and development of modern communications.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction

2.Empire versus Imperialism: Communicative Struggles over Reproduction of the Empire

3.Nation Building by Communications

4.Developmentalism and the Militarization of Communications

5.Neoliberal Militarism

6.Wiring a New Turkey through Neoliberal and Islamist Populism

For 30% discount, please use Promo Code: F23UIP

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