CSHS 506 Dilek Barlas, SOS 259
Spring 2012 Office Hours, Tuesday&Thursday: 9:00-11:00
Tuesdays, 15:30-18:15 E-Mail:
Telephone no. 338 1408
Turkish State and Society
Course Description: This course aims to discuss the origins and the nature of the relationship between the state and society in Turkey. It starts with the discussion on the historical background of the role of the Turkish state and its liaison with the society. In others words, it first talks about the Ottoman background. Then it focuses on the foundation of the Turkish Republic. This course also deals with the Turkish experience of democracy from the post-WWII period to present. Political, economic and social dimensions of state-society relations are the main themes of this course.
Course Requirements:
Grading will be as follows:
1) Discussion Session: 20
-Essay questions: 10
-Discussion: 10
Short Paper: 30%
Final Paper: 50%
§§§ It is required that students do not miss the classes (If you miss more than 1 session, you will lose points for discussion) and the exams (in the case of illness, a valid medical excuse has to be submitted within 3 days of absence).
Academic Integrity: Official university regulations describe academic dishonesty and sanctions against it as follows:
“Academic dishonesty in the form of cheating, plagiarism, or collusion are serious offenses and are not tolerated at Koç University. University Academic Regulations and the Regulations for Student Disciplinary Matters clearly define the policy and the disciplinary action to be taken in case of academic dishonesty. Failure in academic integrity may lead to suspension and expulsion from the University. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, copying from a classmate or providing answers or information, either written or oral, to others. Plagiarism is borrowing or using someone else’s writing or ideas without giving written acknowledgment to the author. This includes copying from a fellow student’s paper or from a text (whether printed or electronic) without properly citing the source. Collusion is getting unauthorized help from another person or having someone else writes a paper or assignment”.
Course Materials:
Readings are available on reserve at Suna Kıraç library. Electronic copies are available at:http://libunix.ku.edu.tr/search/a?searchtype=r&searcharg=cshs+506&SORT=D&searchscope=9&submit.x=32&submit.y=15
Required Readings:
Ahmad, Feroz. From Empire to Republic, Vol.1. İstanbul Bilgi University Press, 2008 pp: 23-140.
Altınay, Ayşe Gül. The Myth of the Military Nation, London: Palgrave, 2004.
Bozdoğan, Sibel and Reşat Kasaba, Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
Cizre, Ümit and Menderes Çınar, “Turkey 2002: Kemalism, Islamism, and Politics in the Light of the February 28 Process, The South Atlantic Quarterly 102:2/3, Spring/Summer 2003.
Finkel, Andrew and Nükhet Sirman, eds. Turkish State, Turkish Society. London: Routledge, 1990.
Frierson, Elizabeth B., "Unimagined Communities: Women and Education in the Late-Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909." Critical Matrix, The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 9, no. 2 (1995).
Hanioğlu, Şükrü. Atatürk. An Intellectual Biography, Princeton University Press, 2011.
------A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Princeton University Press, 2008.
İnalcık, Halil “Centralization and Decentralization in Ottoman Administration”, in Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic History. Edited by Naff, Thomas and Roger Owen. London: Pepper & Simons, Inc. 1977.
Kandiyoti, Deniz “Gender and women’s studies in Turkey: A moment for reflection?” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 43 (2010).
FuatKeyman & Ahmet İçduygu, “Globalization, Civil Society and Citizenship in Turkey: Actors, Boundaries and Discourses”, Citizenship Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2003
Kirişci, Kemal and Gareth M. Winrow, The Kurdish Question and Turkey. London: Frank Cass, 1997.
Mango, Andrew. Atatürk, London: John Murray, 1999.
Mardin, Şerif. Religion, Society and Modernity in Turkey. NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Migdal, Joel S., Atul Kohli and Vivienne Shue, eds. State Power and Social Forces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994..
Shankland, David “The Alevis, Evolving Identity and State” in The Alevis in Turkey, London: Routledge, 2003..
Öniş, Ziya. “Crises and Transformations in Turkish Political Economy” Turkish Policy Quarterly Volume 9 Number 3.
------“Multiple Faces of the “New” Turkish Foreign Policy: Underlying Dynamics and a Critique” Insight Turkey, Vol.13/No. 1/2011. II
Özoğlu, Hakan, “Nationalism and Kurdish Notables in the Late Ottoman-Early Republican Era,” IJMES, 33 (2001).
Pamuk, Şevket. “Economic Change in Twentieth Century Turkey: Is the Glass More than Half Full?” The AUP Visiting Scholar Working Paper Series, 2007.
Sunar, İlkay. State, Society and Democracy in Turkey. İstanbul: Bahçeşehir University Publications, 2004.
Toprak, Zafer “The Family, Feminism, and the State during the Young Turk Period, 1908-1918,” in Première Rencontre Internationale sur l’Empire Ottoman et la Turquie Moderne, İstanbul-Paris, Éditions ISIS, 1991.
Class Schedule:
Week I: February 7
Introduction
Feroz Ahmad, From Empire to Republic, Vol.1, pp: 1-21.
Week II: February 14
Center-Periphery Relations
Halil İnalcık, “Centralization and Decentralization in Ottoman Administration”, in Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic History, pp: 27-52. Şerif Mardin, “Power, Civil Society, and Culture in the Ottoman Empire”, and “Center-Periphery as a Concept for the Study of Social Transformation” in Religion, Society and Modernity in Turkey, pp: 23-44 and 298-316.
Week III: February 21
Questioning Modernity
Reşat Kasaba, “A Time and a Place for the Nonstate: Social Change in the Ottoman Empire during the Long Nineteenth Century” in State Power and Social Forces, pp: 207-231 and “Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities”, in Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, pp: 15-37.
Week IV: February 28
The Disadvantaged of the Ottoman System
Elizabeth B. Frierson, "Unimagined Communities: Women and Education in the Late-Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909," Critical Matrix: 55-90.
Hakan Özoğlu, “Nationalism and Kurdish Notables in the Late Ottoman-Early Republican Era,” IJMES: 383-409.
Week V: March 6
The Young Turks
Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, pp: 144-167 and Feroz Ahmad, From Empire to Republic, Vol.1, pp: 89-140
Week VI: March 13
Transitional Period
Feroz Ahmad, From Empire to Republic, Vol.1, pp: 23-87
Week VII: March 20
Kemalism and Ottoman Heritage
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Atatürk, An Intellectual Biography, pp: 31-47, Andrew Mango, Atatürk, pp: 253-273, and Hanioğlu, pp: 86-128.
Week VIII: March 27
The Mono-Party Period
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Atatürk, An Intellectual Biography, pp: 129-159 and Hakan Özoğlu,, From Caliphate to Secular State, pp: 79-121.
Week IX: April 3
Transition to Multi-Party System
İlkay Sunar, “Populism and Patronage: The Demokrat Party and Its Legacy in Turkey” and İlkay Sunar and Sabri Sayarı “Democracy in Turkey: Problems and Prospects, pp: 121-133 and 65-95 in State, Society and Democracy in Turkey, Ayşe Güneş-Ayata, “Class and Clientelism in the Republican People’s Party” and Bülent Tanör, “The Place of Parliament in Turkey” pp: 159-185 and 139-159 in Turkish State, Turkish Society
Week X: April 10
Spring Break
Week XI: April 17
Ethnic and Religious Policies
Kemal Kirişci and Gareth M. Winrow, The Kurdish Question and Turkey, pp: 103-157
David Shankland, “The Alevis, Evolving Identity and State” in The Alevis in Turkey, pp: 154-173
Week XII: April 24
Gender in the Republican Regime
Zafer Toprak, “The Family, Feminism, and the State during the Young Turk Period, 1908-1918,” in Première Rencontre Internationale sur l’Empire Ottoman et la Turquie Moderne pp: 441-452, Ayşe Gül Altınay, The Myth of the Military Nation, pp: 33-59 and Deniz Kandiyoti, “Gender and women’s studies in Turkey: A moment for reflection?” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 43 (2010): 165-176.
Week XIII: May 1 (Labor Day)
Week XIV: May 8
Globalization, Politics and Civil Society in Turkey
Ümit Cizre and Menderes Çınar, “Turkey 2002: Kemalism, İslamism and Politics in the Light of the February 28 Process”, The South Atlantic Quartely: 310-332 , E. FuatKeyman Ahmet İçduygu, “Globalization, Civil Society and Citizenship in Turkey: Actors, Boundaries and Discourses”, Citizenship Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2003: 219-234.
Week XV: May 15
Economic and Foreign Policy Changes
Şevket Pamuk, “ Economic Change in Twentieth Century Turkey: Is the Glass More than Half Full? ” The AUP Visiting Scholar Working Paper Series: 1-32, Ziya Öniş, “Crises and Transformations in Turkish Political Economy” Turkish Policy Quarterly Volume 9 Number 3: 45-61 and “Multiple Faces of the “New” Turkish Foreign Policy: Underlying Dynamics and a Critique” Insight Turkey: 47-65.