Murat Metinsoy

Power of the People (eBook, ePUB)

Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Ataturk and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political change of Turkey as much as Ataturk's strong spurt of modernization. Adopting a broader conception of politics, focusing on daily interactions between the state and society and using untapped archival sources, Murat Metinsoy reveals how rural and urban people coped with the state policies, local oppression, exploitation, and adverse conditions wrought by the Great Depression through diverse everyday survival and resistance strategies. Showing how the people's daily practices and beliefs survived and outweighed the modernizing elite's projects, this book gives new insights into the social and historical origins of Turkey's backslide to conservative and Islamist politics, demonstrating that the making of modern Turkey was an outcome of intersection between the modernization and the people's responses to it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009027205
• Artikelnr.: 66176141

Autorenporträt

Murat Metinsoy is Professor of History and Political Science in the Faculty of Economics, at Istanbul University. His research interests include the history and politics of modern Turkey and popular politics under authoritarian regimes. As the author of Turkey in World War II: State and Society in Everyday Life (Third edition, 2020) he was awarded the Best Young Social Scientist Award by The Turkish Social Science Association and the Best Book Award by the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Center. Murat Metinsoy is a member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the Turkish Social Science Association, and the History Foundation of Turkey.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Toward an infrahistory of Republican Turkey
Part I. Everyday Politics of Peasants: 1. The price of the Republic for the peasants
2. Raising voice and rural discontent
3. Resisting the agricultural taxes
4. Social smuggling: resistance to the monopolies
5. Theft, violence and banditry
Concluding remarks
Part II. Everyday Politics of Urban Labor: 6. The price of the republic for the working class
7. Labor discontent
8. Survival struggles and everyday resistance
9. Violence, protests and walkouts
Concluding remarks
Part III: The Power of Popular Culture: 10. Hotbeds of opposition to secularism: mosques, coffehouses and homes
11. Informal media vs. official discourse: word of mouth, rumors and placards
14. Neither fez, nor hat: contesting the hat reform
13. Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns
15. Old habits die hard: tenacity of old lifestyles in new times
Concluding remarks
Epilogue. Infrastructure of Turkey's modernization
Bibliography.