[ecrea] new book: Media Representations of the Cultural Other in Turkey

*New Book: “Media Representations of the Cultural Other in Turkey”*
“Media Representations of the Cultural Other in Turkey”
Alparslan Nas
Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
This book is an important contribution to the scholarship on Turkey’s 
cultural and political dynamics, facilitating a discussion on the recent 
depictions of the cultural other in the media. Turkey’s modern history 
has been characterized by a particular tension between the social 
classes occupying the “center” of society: while the bureaucratic elite 
are represented as modern, secular and westernized, the “peripheral” 
communities are portrayed as conservative, religious or non-Turkish. 
This book facilitates a timely intervention to problematize this 
possible perception and to point at the complex dynamics of 
center-periphery relations through the representation of the cultural 
other in film, television, advertisements and cartoons, which have all 
been produced by different social classes. Ultimately, Media 
Representations of the Cultural Other in Turkey argues that the notions 
of the center and periphery do not signify stable positions; rather, 
each social agent imagines themselves at the center, the cultural other 
at their periphery providing a crucial tool for the realization of their 
own identity.
“A fresh study that confirms the existence of multiple peripheries (and 
its others) in Turkish society and how dominant centrist media 
represented these differences in film and television discourse. The use 
of Mardin’s center-periphery concept for the analyses of films, ads and 
cartoons is brilliant. This is a timely project as scholarly interest in 
Turkey has increased exponentially since 2013. This project is key to 
understanding the roots of a media politics in contemporary Turkey.”
—Murat Akser, Ulster University, UK
“Alparslan Nas' seminal work disrupts the notion of Turkish identities 
as fixed and stable. He challenges the center (secular, modern, 
Western)/ peripheral (conservative, religious) binary by critically 
examining how a cultural “other” is constructed and performed through 
the media in Turkey. Nas’ analysis offers a (much needed) new lens and 
approach to understanding Turkey’s complex social and political landscape.”
—Kathleen Cavanaugh, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
For your inquiries about reviewing or general comments please contact 
(alparslan.nas /at/ marmara.edu.tr) <mailto:(alparslan.nas /at/ marmara.edu.tr)>
https://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9783319783451
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-78346-8

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