Forming the Modern Turkish Village
Nation Building and Modernization in Rural Turkey during the Early Republic
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 2022
212 pages
978-3-8394-6155-6 (ISBN)
Description
During the early republican period, architectural interventions in rural Turkey took the form of social engineering as part of the state's modernization and nationalization policies. Özge Sezer demonstrates how the state's particular programs had a powerful effect on rural life in the countryside. She examines the regime's goals and strategies for controlling the rural people through development projects and demographic shaping to create a strong Turkish identity and a loyal citizenry. The book outlines the implementation of new rural settlements, particularly following the 1934 Settlement Law, with a geographic focus on two cities - Izmir and Elazig - with varied socio-economic and ethnic standing in the state program.
Reviews / Votes
»Sezers work is an important new element to understand the practices behind the Kemalist Turkification project. It adds to the understanding of how an intellectual village discourse transformed the countryside and how the organization of village and housing spaces interacted not only with sociological ideas but also with racist ideologies.«More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2019
Technische Universität Berlin
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
23
23 s/w Abbildungen
20 SW-Abbildungen
File size
11,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-6155-6 (9783839461556)
DOI
10.14361/9783839461556
Schweitzer Classification
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Özge Sezer
Forming the Modern Turkish Village
Nation Building and Modernization in Rural Turkey during the Early Republic
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Person
Özge Sezer, born in 1984, works as a post-doctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group 1913 at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg. She received her PhD from Technische Universität Berlin with a dissertation on modernist interventions in planning the rural settlements in early republican Turkey. She worked as an architect in preservation projects of historic buildings and archaeological sites, as well as an adjunct lecturer in history and theory of art and architecture. Her research focuses on architectures of rural communities, migration, and state and people relations in different architectural processes.
