Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey write by Catharina Raudvere. This book was released on 2022-12-13. Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to everyday concerns, as well as invoking an imperial past at the national level. In this mode of thinking, shaped around a polarised worldview, Republican ideals serve as a counter-image to the promoted splendour and harmony of the Ottomans. Yet, the stereotypical gender roles inextricably linked with this neo-Ottoman imaginary remain largely unacknowledged, dissimulated in the construction of the desire of an idealised past. Our adaption of a cultural studies perspective in this volume puts special emphasis on agency, gender, and authority. It provides a shared ground for the interrogation, through the contributions comprising this project of knowledge production about the past in light of what constitutes acceptable legitimacy in interpreting not only the canonical literature, but history at large.
Post-Empire Imaginaries?
Post-Empire Imaginaries? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Empire Imaginaries? write by Barbara Buchenau. This book was released on 2015-07-28. Post-Empire Imaginaries? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.
Capturing News, Capturing Democracy
Capturing News, Capturing Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capturing News, Capturing Democracy write by Kate Wright. This book was released on 2024-06-27. Capturing News, Capturing Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest U.S. government-funded international media organization. In 2020, Donald Trump nominated Michael Pack, a right-wing documentarian and close friend of Steve Bannon, to lead the organization and curb what Trump saw as the network's overly negative reporting on the U.S. During the seven months that Pack oversaw the agency, more than 30 whistleblowers filed complaints against him, a judge ruled that he had infringed journalists' constitutional right to freedom of speech, and he refused to respond to a subpoena issued by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. How did such a major international public service media network become intensely politicized by government allies in such a short time, despite having its editorial independence protected by law? What were the effects on news output? And what can we learn from this situation about how to protect media freedom in the future? Capturing News, Capturing Democracy puts these events in historical and international context--and develops a new analytical framework for understanding government capture and its connection to broader processes of democratic backsliding. Drawing from in-depth interviews with network managers and journalists, and analysis of private correspondence and internal documents, Wright, Scott, and Bunce analyze how political appointees, White House officials, and right-wing media influenced VOA changing its reporting of the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidential election, and its contested aftermath. The authors stress that leaving the VOA unprotected opens it and other public media to targeting by authoritarian leadership and poses serious risks to US democracy. Further, they offer practical recommendations for how to protect the network and other international public service media better in the future.
Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics
Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics write by Seyla Benhabib. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies' encounters with modernity itself. Are Islam and democracy compatible? Can we shed the language of 'Islam vs. the West' for new political imaginaries? The authors analyze struggles over political legitimacy since the Arab Spring and the rise of Al Qaeda and ISIS in their historical and political complexity across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Distinguishing multiculturalism from interculturalism and understanding multiple modernities, philosophers in the volume tease out the complexities of civilizational encounters. The volume also shows how the Paris massacres or the Danish caricature controversy do not remain confined to Europe but influence struggles and confrontations within Muslim societies. Gender and Islam are addressed from a comparative perspective bringing into conversation not only the experience of different Muslim countries with Islamic law but also by analysing Jewish family law.
Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey
Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey write by Petek Onur. This book was released on . Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
