Erdem, Chien Yang2018-04-122018-04-1220171468-3849http://hdl.handle.net/11693/37184This essay proposes an alternative concept–Ottomentality–in order to more adequately assess Turkey’s growing neo-Ottoman cultural ensemble. This concept is deployed here to underscore the convergence of neoliberal and neo-Ottoman rationalities and the discursive practices that are developed around them for governing culture and managing a diverse society. The essay contends that the convergence of these two rationalities has significantly transformed the state’s approach to culture as a way of governing the social, constituted a particular knowledge of multiculturalism, and a subject of citizenry increasingly subjected to exclusion and discipline for expressing critical views of this knowledge.EnglishAKPCultureGovernmentalityJustice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi)Neo-OttomanismNeoliberalismArticle10.1080/14683849.2017.1354702