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Book SynopsisThis book aims to understand the ways and means for ensuring societal peace by evaluating problems about citizenship in the Turkish regime. It also offers the ideal citizenship regime for Turkey in relation to various issues, such as the environment, gender, youth, and poverty.
Trade ReviewThis book brings together various analyses that portray how various social movements are changing the citizenship regime in Turkey. This is a change that is transforming the state-society relations that are critical in the achievement of societal peace. The analyses included in this book describe how the issues pertaining to Kurds, Alevis, Romanis, women, LGBT groups, economically poor people, the youth, environmentally conscious, and Afro-Turkish community are bringing about denationalization of citizenship in the Turkish context. While the existing analyses focus on how the European Union accession processes have been triggering such a transformation, this book is distinguished by virtue of shedding light onto the transformative impact of such social movements. -- Ayse Kadioglu, Sabanci University, Istanbul
This book is long overdue. Well-crafted and timely, it will appeal to those scholars, experts, and students who want to know more about the transformation of the Turkish social landscape. Rather than focus on the conflict between Islamists and secularists, Dönmez and Enneli challenge us to consider diverse societal forces and identity-based social movements. The result is a deeper and richer understanding of the societal landscape of Turkey. There are two main features of the current normative conflict in Turkey: disputes over different lifestyles and the search for legitimacy, and the deepening clash of values between the political elite and the masses. The book not only provides a new interpretation of the origins of the current normative conflict, but offers new ways of addressing these conflicts. -- M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Beyond State-Led Nationalism: Ideal Citizenship for Turkey Chapter 2. Citizenship and National Identity: A Comparative Analysis Chapter 3. Making of Modern Turkey and The Structuring of The Kurdish Identity: New Paradigms of Citizenship in The 21st Century Chapter 4. The Alevi Identity and Civil Rights in the 20th Century Chapter 5. Gypsies and Citizenship in Turkey Chapter 6. Less than Citizens: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Question in Turkey Chapter 7. Turks of African Origin and Citizenship Chapter 8. Gender and Citizenship in Turkey at the Crossroads of The Patriarchal State, Women and Transnational Pressures Chapter 9. European Union and Turkey: Transformation of State-Society Relationship Chapter 10. Social Rights as Ideal Citizenship Chapter 11. The Turkish Young People as Active Citizens: Equal Participation or Social Exclusion? Chapter 12. Environmental Citizenship and Struggle for Nature
