Political Ideologies in Turkey

Course content

This course maps political ideologies in modern Turkey with special emphasis on their representations of capitalist modernity, state and the people. It will mainly provide a discourse analysis on the political and cultural writings of a number of major intellectual figures from different ideological perspectives. Tracing the intellectual legacy of the late Ottoman Empire, the lectures will focus on the historical trajectories and modalities of ideological discourses including Kemalism, nationalism, socialism, conservatism, Islamism, and liberalism. The intertextual relations between those discourses and their role şn the constellation of social and political forces will also be examined.