Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes an innovative approach to the transfer of cultural policies, considering them in terms of co-production and synchrony. This argument is developed through an examination of circulations at the international, national, and local levels; employing original empirical data and case study analyses.
Divided into three parts the book first examines the Kemalist legacy, before turning to the cultural policies developed under the AKP's leadership, and concludes by investigating the production of cultural policies in the outlying regions of Turkey. The authors shed new light on the particular importance of culture to the understanding of the societal upheavals in contemporary Turkey. By considering exchanges as circulations rather than one-way impositions, this book also advances our understanding of how territories are (re)defined by culture and makes a significant contribution to the interrogation of the concept of Westernization.
This book brings into clear focus the reconfigurations currently taking place in Turkish cultural policy, demonstrating that while they are driven by the ruling party, they are also the work of civil society actors. It convincingly argues that an authoritarian turn need not necessarily spell the end of the cultural scene, and highlights the innovative adaptations and resistance strategies used in this context. This book will appeal to students and scholars of public policy, sociology and cultural studies.

Analyses the role of policy transfer and questions the models of cultural policies in Turkey Draws together contributions from political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and geographers Applies original empirical data to the understanding of societal upheavals in contemporary Turkey

Autorentext
Muriel Girard is Associate Professor of Social and Human Sciences, Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille, Laboratoire INAMA, Marseille, France, and member of INAMA research laboratory (ENSA-M).
Jean-François Polo, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Rennes, France, and member of ARENES (CNRS).
Clémence Scalbert Yücel is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Arab and slamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, where she teaches Ethnopolitics and Kurdish Studies.

Inhalt
Introduction: Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global WorldCirculations, Territories, and Actors.- Part I - The Kemalist Legacy.- Circulation of Humanism and Classicism During the Second World War in Turkey: The Case of the Painters' Homeland Tours (19381946).- Post-Ottoman Heritage(s), Kemalist Tourism and Cultural Policies in the Balkans.- Part II - Cultural Policy Under the AKP's Leadership.- Turkish Cultural Policy: In Search of a New Model?.- Converted Spaces, Converted Meanings: Looking at New Cultural Spaces in Istanbul through a Cultural Policy Lens.- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Art and Vocational Training Courses: A Matrix for Reviving Arts and Handicrafts, Constructing Local Values, and Reworking National Culture.- Cultural Action as Mode of Domination: Islamic
Businessmen's International Trade Fair and Configurations of Turkey's Cultural Model.- Part III- Territorial Cultural Policies; The Dream of a Village: The Yesil Yayla Festival and the Making of a World of Culture in the Town of Arhavi.- Tradition Makers. The Recognition Process of a Local Dance: From the Village to the Institutions.- World Heritage Manufacture in Turkey and the Introduction of a New Public Policy System.
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