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What he means by Turkishness is not a bond of citizenship, a cultural identity, or a form of ideological belonging, as in Turkish nationalism. Rather, Turkishness points to certain structures of thought, feeling, ways of acting, strategies, and embodied performances that, for all their differences across lines of class, gender, or ideological belonging, also display a number of important shared characteristics that transcend such lines of differentiation— in other words, Turkishness as habitus. The roots of Turkishness, he argues, can be traced back to Turkishness Contract, a largely unspoken and unwritten agreement amongst the majority of Muslims in Anatolia that took place gradually between 1912 and 1925, the formative years of Turkish nationalism. Yet this contract is not a relic of the past. As the basic constitution of the Turkish Republic, unwritten, yet far more effective than anything in writing, the Turkishness Contract has, since the 1920s, defined the norms and rules of fields and institutions, and formed the schemas of thought, feeling, and action of individuals born, raised, socialized, and working within these fields and institutions, making them Turkish subjects. The Turkishness Contract also constitutes a particular “interaction order” that informs and guides countless everyday encounters, between individuals inside the contract and those outside.
BARIŞ ÜNLÜ has a BA in Economics and MA in Political Science from Ankara University. He completed his PhD in Sociology at SUNY Binghamton in the spring of 2008. His dissertation, entitled “The Genealogy of a World-Empire: The Ottomans in World History”, explores the formation of the Ottoman Empire from a comparative and world-historical perspective. His most recent book is: The Turkishness Contract: Its Formation, Functioning, and Crisis (in Turkish), (Ankara: Dipnot Press, 2018). In February 2017, with a State of Emergency decree, he was expelled from Ankara University, where he had been employed for 17 years, for signing the Academics for Peace declaration. He is currently a Philipp Schwartz research fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
SPEAKER
Barış Ünlü, University of Duisburg-Essen
COORDINATION
Volker Heins, KWI & Academy in Exile
Egemen Özbek, KWI & Academy in Exile
ORGANISERS
An event by the Academy in Exile at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen
*Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Hinweise zur Teilnahme:
PARTICIPATION
Participation only via ZOOM. For participation, please apply via egemen.oezbek@kwi-nrw.de until November 10th.
Termin:
12.11.2020 14:00 - 17:00
Anmeldeschluss:
10.11.2020
Veranstaltungsort:
ZOOM, virtual event
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Deutschland
Zielgruppe:
Studierende, Wissenschaftler
E-Mail-Adresse:
Relevanz:
überregional
Sachgebiete:
Gesellschaft, Kulturwissenschaften, Psychologie
Arten:
Vortrag / Kolloquium / Vorlesung
Eintrag:
21.10.2020
Absender:
Helena Rose
Abteilung:
Pressestelle
Veranstaltung ist kostenlos:
ja
Textsprache:
Deutsch
URL dieser Veranstaltung: http://idw-online.de/de/event67170
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