Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey » (1st Edition)

Esra Özyürek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the editor of Politics of Public Memory: Production and Consumption of the Past in Turkey.

An anthropological account of how Turkey, a predominantly Muslim state, has come to embrace republicanism in a way that, as in the United States, it has suffused private domestic life.

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction....................1
ONE * The Elderly Children of the Republic: The Public History in the Private Story....................29
TWO * Wedded to the Republic: Displaying Transformations in Private Lives....................65
THREE * Miniaturizing Atatürk: The Commodification of State Iconography....................93
FOUR * Hand in Hand with the Republic: Civilian Celebrations of the Turkish State....................125
FIVE * Public Memory as Political Battleground: Kemalist and Islamist Versions of the Early Republic....................151
Conclusion....................178
Notes....................183
References....................199
Index....................217