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The Resource Tracing cultural change in the reproduction of intolerance : "secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization, Metin Koca

Tracing cultural change in the reproduction of intolerance : "secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization, Metin Koca

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How do cultural resources such as values and beliefs, and their functions in ideology-making, change? In the democratization literature, the value-based approach to culture seeks cultural change based on values. However, the combination of this approach with value-surveys fails to consider several ways in which change may unfold between cultural periods. Instead, this study will delve into a history of conversational texts, which are endogenously grounded within culture, capable of demonstrating culture in action and reflecting what is collective about culture as it operates through dialectical encounters. I focus on change in three landscapes of culture in Turkey, which have witnessed some of the most persistent stories of the unequal relationship between the self and the other. These landscapes may be identified as follows: i) “LGBT” and the entertainment sector, ii) “women” and clothing, iii) “Alevis” and funerals. In the first case-study, I examine the re-making of (in)tolerance on the borders of the entertainment sector, during a period in which the visible representations of LGBT identity were gradually integrated into the competing mass value-systems. Secondly, I will examine the unchaining of interlocutors’ clothing rights and freedoms from their first-order values, as these interlocutors have recognized new discursive possibilities and constraints. Finally, I will focus on the intolerance, commonly rationalized by means of the politics of recognition and assimilation, against some syncretic religious traditions developed within Alevilik. Bringing together all these landscapes, my conclusion addresses the broader dispute over the role of values, tolerance and recognition in democracy. I will conclude that democracy may not require an agreement on foundational values; but an acknowledgement of the disagreements over values before negotiating the rest-e.g. rights and freedoms. Though tolerance has limits and risks, whereas recognition has certain merits, they have different functions at such times of multifaceted cultural contestations
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eng
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Publication
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xii, 334 pages
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Examining Board: Ayhan Kaya, Istanbul Bilgi University; Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute - SPS Department; Élise Massicard, CERI, Sciences Po; Olivier Roy, European University Institute - SPS Department (Supervisor)
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http://hdl.handle.net/1814/65741
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Tracing cultural change in the reproduction of intolerance : "secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization
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Tracing cultural change in the reproduction of intolerance
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"secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization
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Metin Koca
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Language
eng
Summary
How do cultural resources such as values and beliefs, and their functions in ideology-making, change? In the democratization literature, the value-based approach to culture seeks cultural change based on values. However, the combination of this approach with value-surveys fails to consider several ways in which change may unfold between cultural periods. Instead, this study will delve into a history of conversational texts, which are endogenously grounded within culture, capable of demonstrating culture in action and reflecting what is collective about culture as it operates through dialectical encounters. I focus on change in three landscapes of culture in Turkey, which have witnessed some of the most persistent stories of the unequal relationship between the self and the other. These landscapes may be identified as follows: i) “LGBT” and the entertainment sector, ii) “women” and clothing, iii) “Alevis” and funerals. In the first case-study, I examine the re-making of (in)tolerance on the borders of the entertainment sector, during a period in which the visible representations of LGBT identity were gradually integrated into the competing mass value-systems. Secondly, I will examine the unchaining of interlocutors’ clothing rights and freedoms from their first-order values, as these interlocutors have recognized new discursive possibilities and constraints. Finally, I will focus on the intolerance, commonly rationalized by means of the politics of recognition and assimilation, against some syncretic religious traditions developed within Alevilik. Bringing together all these landscapes, my conclusion addresses the broader dispute over the role of values, tolerance and recognition in democracy. I will conclude that democracy may not require an agreement on foundational values; but an acknowledgement of the disagreements over values before negotiating the rest-e.g. rights and freedoms. Though tolerance has limits and risks, whereas recognition has certain merits, they have different functions at such times of multifaceted cultural contestations
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Koca, Metin
Date time place
Defence date: 20 January 2020
Dissertation note
Thesis (Ph. D.)--European University Institute (SPS), 2020
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non fiction
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  • EUI PhD theses
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  • Social change
  • Democratization
  • Turkey
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Tracing cultural change in the reproduction of intolerance : "secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization, Metin Koca
Link
http://hdl.handle.net/1814/65741
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Publication
Note
Examining Board: Ayhan Kaya, Istanbul Bilgi University; Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute - SPS Department; Élise Massicard, CERI, Sciences Po; Olivier Roy, European University Institute - SPS Department (Supervisor)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301 - 332)
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text
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rdacontent
Dimensions
30 cm.
Extent
xii, 334 pages
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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(OCoLC)1137822205
Label
Tracing cultural change in the reproduction of intolerance : "secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization, Metin Koca
Link
http://hdl.handle.net/1814/65741
Publication
Note
Examining Board: Ayhan Kaya, Istanbul Bilgi University; Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute - SPS Department; Élise Massicard, CERI, Sciences Po; Olivier Roy, European University Institute - SPS Department (Supervisor)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301 - 332)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
30 cm.
Extent
xii, 334 pages
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1137822205

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