[Commlist] Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Illinois Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire***

A Critical History

*Burçe Çelik***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252087394/communications-in-turkey-and-the-ottoman-empire/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252087394/communications-in-turkey-and-the-ottoman-empire/> 
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*LLF23*

*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30^th June 2024. Discount only applies to the 
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“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

De-Westernizing the communications history of Turkey and its imperial 
predecessor.

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.

Burçe Çelik is a professor of social movements and media, media cultures 
in the global South, and politics of communication at Loughborough 
University London. She is the author of /Technology and National 
Identity in Turkey: Mobile Communications and the Evolution of a 
Post-Ottoman Nation/.

*University of Illinois Press**| The Geopolitics of Information | 
October 2023 | 272pp | 9780252087394 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

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