Early Republican Ankara: struggle over historical representation and the politics of urban historiography

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dc.citation.epage679en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber5en_US
dc.citation.spage661en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber37en_US
dc.contributor.authorBatuman, B.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:51:18Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:51:18Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Urban Design and Landscape Architectureen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the emergence of a particular historical representation: that of "early republican Ankara." Becoming the capital of the newly born Turkish nation-state in 1923, Ankara was conceived as the symbolic locus of Turkish modernization. The old Ottoman town was rapidly transformed into a modern capital. However, "early republican Ankara" as a historiographic category is a product of the 1990s. In this period, two distinct representations of the city surfaced. One was the outcome of the incorporation of the postmodern critique of modernization into Turkish political history and was supported by the growing interest in urban studies. The other was a direct product of the nationalist call of the Turkish political establishment in the face of pressure from Kurdish nationalism and political Islam. Within this context, the notion of "early republican Ankara" emerged as a nostalgic image to promote national unity.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0096144211407738en_US
dc.identifier.issn0096-1442
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/21801
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144211407738en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Urban Historyen_US
dc.subjectEarly republican Ankaraen_US
dc.subjectPolitics of nostalgiaen_US
dc.subjectPolitics of urban historiographyen_US
dc.subjectTurkish modernizationen_US
dc.subjectTurkish urban studiesen_US
dc.titleEarly Republican Ankara: struggle over historical representation and the politics of urban historiographyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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