Efthymia Kanner

Lecturer

canner[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

3 hours per week

Course Objectives

Students completing the course should be able to understand issues such as:

• Citizenship and the concept of Social Capital (in the Putnamian sense) in Contemporary Turkey.

• Secularism and Religion in Contemporary Turkey.

• Statism and the transition to the Market Economy in Turkey.

• Gender issues in Turkey in the context of the above topics.

Course Structure

In this course we examine issues such as citizenship, secularism, market economy and gender: a) as they first emerge in the Ottoman Reform Era; b) as they are transformed during the Kemalist period; c) the continuities and dis-continuities they present from the end of the Kemalist period until today. These issues are investigated in fields such as education, religiosity, family, internal and external migration, structure of the economically active population, consumption, social movements, ethnic and religious communities and minorities.

These topics are approached through historical sources and documents concerning the current situation in Turkey. They are also theoretically contextualized. The course takes the form of a dialogue based on sources and bibliography available on the e-class platform.

Assessment

Assessment is effected: (a) through a written assignment (up to 2,000 words; 30% of the overall grade) on topics related to the course. A list of recommended titles is provided. Students are encouraged to present a draft of their assignment during the last session for comments by the teacher and the students; (b) through the final written exams (70% of the overall grade).

Required Readings

Kandiyoti Deniz, Saktanber Ayşe (ed.), Fragments of Culture. The Everyday of Modern Turkey, I.B. Tauris, London-New York 2002.

Lewis, Bernard, 1961, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Vols I.,II., Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto, [Greek Edition, Athens 2002, Papazisis Publishers].

Özkırımlı, Umut - Sofos Spyros A., 2008, Tormented by History. Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, Hurst & Company, London [Greek Edition, Athens 2008, Kastaniotis Publishers].

Shankland David, 1999, Islam and Society in Turkey, The Eothen Press, Huntingdon [Greek Edition, Athens 2003, Kritiki Publishers].

Frangoudaki, Anna - Keyder, Çağlar (ed.), 2007, Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey. Encounters with Europe, 1850-1959, I.B. Tauris, London [Greek Edition, Athens 2008, Alexandria Publishers].

Bibliography

Kandiyoti Deniz, Saktanber Ayşe (ed.), Fragments of Culture. The Everyday of Modern Turkey, I.B. Tauris, London-New York 2002.

Keyder, Çağlar – Φραγκουδάκη, Άννα (επιμ.), Ελλάδα και Τουρκία. Πορείες εκσυγχρονισμού. Οι αμφίσημες σχέσεις τους με την Ευρώπη, 1850-1950, μτφρ., Κώστας Κουρεμένος, Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα 2008.

Özkırımlı, Umut- Sofos Spyros A., 2008, Το βάσανο της Ιστορίας. Ο εθνικισμός στην Ελλάδα και στην Τουρκία, μτφρ., Γιώργος Σαλταπίδας, Καστανιώτης, Αθήνα.

Shankland, David, Ισλάμ και κοινωνία στην Τουρκία, μτφρ. Κατερίνα Κιτίδη, επιμέλεια- πρόλογος Φωτεινή Τσιμπιρίδου, εκδ. Κριτική, Αθήνα 2003.

Lewis, Bernard, Η ανάδυση της σύγχρονης Τουρκίας, τόμος Ι: Τα στάδια της ανάδυσης, μτφρ. Π. Κωνσταντέας, επιμέλεια- μετάφραση-σχολιασμός Στέφανος Παπαγεωργίου, Παπαζήσης, Αθήνα 2001.

–– Η ανάδυση της σύγχρονης Τουρκίας, τόμος ΙΙ: Όψεις της αλλαγής, επιμέλεια- μετάφραση-σχολιασμός Στέφανος Παπαγεωργίου, Παπαζήσης, Αθήνα 2001.