Sun 21 Nov 2010
Our Book “Rethinking Power in Turkey” Was Included to World Libraries
Author: K. Murat Güney | Category: Academic , Announcement , News[6] Comments
In the one and half year that follows its publication our book “Turkiye’de Iktidari Yeniden Dusunmek” (”Rethinking Power in Turkey”) was attracted the attention of the prominent libraries from all around the world and Turkey and included to their archives.
The university libraries that have our book includes Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Utah University and the University of Arizona.
Moreover, in Turkey our book can be found in the Library of the Turkish Parliament as well as in the Libraries of Bogazici University, Sabanci University, Koc University, Middle East Technical University, Harran University and Suleyman Demirel University.
Table of Contents:
- “Preface” / by K. Murat Guney
- “Power and Reality in Turkey” / by Meltem Ahiska
- “The Fear of Archive and the Black Notebook of Nizami Bey: History, Memory and Power in Turkey” / by Meltem Ahiska
- “The Gender of Europe: The Docile Virgin, The Absorbing Female, and The Conquering Son” / by Nurdan Gurbilek
- “Patterns of Behavior, Forms of Interpretation, and Inequality in a Istanbul Courthouse” / by Dicle Kogacioglu
- “The Youth, Population and Power in Turkey” / by Ferhunde Ozbay
- “Non-Governmental Organizations in Turkey: ‘Voluntarism’ in the Age of Modernity, Nationalism and Neo-Liberalism” / by Yasemin Ipek Can
- “Different Faces of Power and the Transformation of Alevi Identity” / by Ozlem Goner
- “Managing’ the Kurdish Question” / by Firat Bozcali
- “A New Hegemonic Battlefield: The Formation of the Official Kurdish TV, TRT6″ / by T. Balca Arda
- “Being Mothers of the Army: Mothers of Martyrs in Turkey” / by Esra Gedik
- “AKP (Justice and Development Party) and the ‘new’ Power in Turkey” / by K. Murat Guney
Turkiye’de Iktidari Yeniden Dusunmek (Rethinking Power in Turkey) is a collective work of Professors and Ph. D. students, who study on the reconfiguration and transformation of power relations in Turkey especially after the 1980 military coup. The book is the first and unique analysis of power relations in Turkey through a post-structuralist and Foucauldian theoretical framework. In that sense, Turkiye’de Iktidari Yeniden Dusunmek (Rethinking Power in Turkey) does not only provide a novel analysis of power and government in Turkey but it also presents a critique of the former liberal and Marxist approaches towards the nature of power in Turkey.
Our compilation of science-fiction reviews and critiques “Other Worlds Are Possible” (Baska Dunyalar Mumkun) was evaluated by the Turkish Literature Review magazine as the best of Turkish Literature in 2007.