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

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

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