Issues in Turkish Cultural History

Course content

The course aims to map the field of popular cultural practices in Turkey. Tracing the historical formation and transformation of Turkish popular culture, it examines the interplay of culture, power and subalternity. Particular emphasis is put on the distinction and relation between the official-high culture and the folk-popular culture, the formation of cultural distinctions and hierarchies, popular representations of the state, subalternity vis-à-vis power, and the questions of legitimacy and cultural hegemony.