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[ecrea] call for chapters for an edited volume of 'new culture' in Turkey

Fri Jun 23 21:48:18 GMT 2017






Call for Chapters

eds. Daghan Irak, Cagri Yalkin, Suncem Kocer

In the last two decades, Turkey has been going through a massive metamorphosis virtually in every possible field, as all agencies and institutions of this once radically secularist state have been transformed in line with the “New Turkey” project by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), mostly based on Islamic and/or conservative principles.

After Erdoğan’s victory in the 2010 Constitutional referendum where the tutelage of the army over democratic life and the Kemalist elites in state bureaucracy were effectively eliminated, the last obstacle for hegemony was indubitably cultural. Despite having had absolutely no difficulty in scoring landslide electoral victories, the AKP was unable to contain the growing preoccupations of a large urban population, predominantly comprised of secular, modern cultural capital owners. After the 2007 Republican rallies, which mostly aimed at restoring the old regime, had a limited effect probably due to their reactionary and nature, the Gezi Park protests in 2013 emerged as a massive backlash against the growingly repressive new regime, accompanied by unprecedented democratic alliances between traditionally adverse social and political layers of society in Turkey. Even though the Gezi Park protests roughly gathered five million people across the country over a month, the movement did not fully translate into institutional politics, and thus it culturally represented a major defeat for Erdoğan’s inevitable journey to be the uncontested ruler of “New Turkey”. That was where the JDP project started to have substantial cultural flavours that seemed to be products of a legitimation crisis: a hectic contemplation on how to tackle the cultural dissidence, possibly by replacing the cultural remnants of the old regime with a newly-constructed cultural narrative. Limiting the Metropolitan Municipalities’ City Theatres performances, construction of the third Bosphorus Bridge Yavuz Sultan Selim which aimed to stand as the symbol new Turkey from its pro-Sunni name to the glorification deforestation, and shifting the ballet, opera, and theatre performances from Ataturk Cultural Centre to shopping malls such as Zorlu Centre are but a few projects in aid of a new cultural narrative. As a result, under the wings of an anti-Western populism promoted by Erdoğan himself, new cultural creations emerged as productions of new and old actors of the cultural scene, using the economic and social capacities of the massive public-private network established by the AKP. However, the complex and fierce cultural battle in Turkey is still far away of reaching a conclusion.

We are inviting chapters for an edited book on the cultural landscape in new Turkey. Rising on the shoulders of Saktanber and Kandiyoti’s (2002) seminal work on everyday life in Turkey, we aim to examine the socio-cultural transformation that took place since, and its reflections in everyday life. Given the social, cultural, and political changes that have characterized and morphed the global and regional landscape since 1990, we examine contemporary life in Turkey through consumption and cultural studies (fashion, celebrities, etc), communications (newsmaking, etc), sociology, anthropology, gender studies, arts and creative industries studies (film and tv studies, museum studies, etc.), urban studies, and digital lives. Chapters may respond to, but are not limited by, the following prompts:

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    Arts & popular culture (fashion, film, TV series & programs,
    literature, celebrities, museums, galleries, literature)

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    Consumption

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    Urban life (streets/spaces, shopping malls, gentrification)

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    Gender (inequality, masculinities, femininities, LGBT-Q, education)

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    Sports

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    Religion

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    Digital Identities

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    Food

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    Leisure

Please send your chapters, queries, and questions to (newcultureturkey /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(newcultureturkey /at/ gmail.com)>. The deadline for chapter submissions is 1 September 2017.


Dr. Daghan Irak
Dr. Suncem Kocer
Dr. Cagri Yalkin


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