The securityness of secularism? The case of Turkey

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dc.citation.epage614en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber6en_US
dc.citation.spage593en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber39en_US
dc.contributor.authorBilgin, P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T10:07:04Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T10:07:04Z
dc.date.issued2008-12en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractSecularism is frequently portrayed as a security referent in present-day Turkey. But, what is it that makes secularism a security issue? Where are we to locate the `securityness' of secularism? Against prevailing accounts that privilege the domestic dimension, this article argues that the securityness of secularism in Turkey should be located in both the domestic and the international. This is not to suggest that secularism can be reduced to security, but it is to suggest that efforts to portray Turkey's secularism merely as a constitutive principle and an outcome of the project of Republican transformation, or as a means of safeguarding a particular vision of transformation through controlling religion, or as an instrument of national economic development, while rewarding in themselves, nevertheless miss an important set of dynamics that help to explain secularism's centrality to Turkey's politics. The article locates this latter set of dynamics in the international realm and ultimately proffers the argument that secularism was in part a response to European/international society's ambivalence towards Turkey's `difference' and the insecurities this entailed. The conclusion suggests that the present-day centrality of secularism in Turkey's politics and the apparent securityness of such centrality could be considered as a response to particular remembrances of the past and interpretations of the present vis-à-vis such ambivalence.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0967010608098211en_US
dc.identifier.issn0967-0106
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/22960
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd.en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010608098211en_US
dc.source.titleSecurity Dialogueen_US
dc.subjectCritical securityen_US
dc.subjectInternational societyen_US
dc.subjectSecularismen_US
dc.subjectSecurityen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleThe securityness of secularism? The case of Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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