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 : "secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization

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"secularism", "Islamism" and others in Turkey’s experience of democratization

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Metin Koca

Creator

• Koca, Metin

Subject

• Democratization -- Turkey
• Social change -- Turkey
• Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980-

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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• EUI PhD theses

Cataloging source

FIE

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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theses

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• EUI PhD theses
• EUI theses