[Commlist] New book: Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order

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

*Talking Back to the West***

How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order

*Bilge Yesil***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252087998/talking-back-to-the-west/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252087998/talking-back-to-the-west/>_*

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“/Yesil masterfully shows how Erdogan and the AKP have positioned 
themselves as a voice of aggrieved Muslims and counterbalance to the 
harm that Western capitalism, globalization, and interventions have 
caused. With impressive historical and media analysis and even some 
ethnography and interviews, she then deconstructs their global media 
output to reveal how their reductionist and polarizing binary East/West 
and Us/Them messaging not only undermines Turkey’s own complex 
in-betweenness but also further empowers hardliners./”--Wazhmah Osman, 
author of /Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by 
Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists///

In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began 
to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising 
player and counter foreign criticism of its authoritarian practices. 
Bilge Yesil examines the AKP’s English-language communication apparatus, 
focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework 
that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. She also 
analyzes the decolonial and pan-Islamist messages AKP-sponsored outlets 
deploy to position Turkey as a burgeoning great power opposed to 
imperialism and claiming to be the voice of oppressed Muslims around the 
world. As the AKP wields this rhetoric to further its geopolitical and 
economic goals, media outlets pursue their own objectives by obfuscating 
facts with identity politics, demonizing the West to aggrandize the East 
and rallying Muslims under Turkey’s purportedly benevolent leadership.

Insightfully exploring the crossroads of communications and 
authoritarianism, /Talking Back to the West/illuminates how the Erdogan 
government and its media allies use history, religion, and identity to 
pursue complementary agendas and tighten the AKP’s grip on power.

*Bilge Yesil*is an associate professor of media culture at City 
University of New York, College of Staten Island. She is the author of 
/Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State/.



*University of Illinois Press**| Geopolitics of Information | June 
2024 | 224pp | 9780252087998 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

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