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Toward an Anthropology of the State: Unsettling Effects of the September 12 Coup on the Ülkücü Movement in Turkey

Duzel, Esin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213622780

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2008, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
This thesis explores the effects of the state violence on political subjectivities, and the reformations of the State. More specifically it examines the interviews and memoirs by members of the ultranationalist (ülkücü) movement in Turkey about their prison and torture experiences during the 1980 military coup. It demonstrates different ways their encounters with the State violence are understood, and incorporated into oppositional or loyalist discourses. The project employs two methodological approaches, genealogical and anthropological. For the first, the historicity of the coups is provided, and different dynamics of power are laid out. For the second, the State is regarded both as an entity and a notion, and the relationships between the political subjects and the State are investigated with paying attention to the instances from daily life. In doing so, this thesis offers a perspective to the scholarship on the coups in Turkey which has predominantly been crafted by the political science studies. It challenges the notion of the State as reified, rational, and in the Turkish case, 'guardian' of the Nation.
Philip Armstrong (Advisor)
Dorothy Noyes (Committee Member)
Mathew Coleman (Committee Member)
71 p.
Cultural Anthropology; Middle Eastern History
anthropology of the state; Turkey; military coup; September 12; ultranationalist; ulkucu

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  • Duzel, E. (2008). Toward an Anthropology of the State: Unsettling Effects of the September 12 Coup on the Ülkücü Movement in Turkey [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213622780

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Duzel, Esin. Toward an Anthropology of the State: Unsettling Effects of the September 12 Coup on the Ülkücü Movement in Turkey. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213622780.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Duzel, Esin. "Toward an Anthropology of the State: Unsettling Effects of the September 12 Coup on the Ülkücü Movement in Turkey." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213622780

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