Gender and Empire in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Caricature, Models of Empire, and the Case for Ottoman Exceptionalism

Brummett, Palmira

doi:10.1215/1089201x-2007-006

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“…In the Turkish setting however, works explicitly discussing or referring to Turkish exceptionalism are rare and mostly focus on political or economic processes at the domestic level. While Brummett (2007), in analyzing cartoons appearing in 19th century Ottoman newspapers, deconstructs the emergence of Ottoman exceptionalism as a resource to overcome accusations of inferiority, Mardin (2005) talks about a TurkisheIslamic exceptionalism and points to "the specifics of Turkish history . that have worked cumulatively to create a special setting for Islam, a setting where secularism and Islam interpenetrate" (2005: p. 148).…”

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Constructing Turkish “exceptionalism”: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

Yanık

2011

Political Geography

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Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article examines the discursive practices that enable the construction of Turkish “exceptionalism.” It\ud argues that in an attempt to play the mediator/peacemaker role as an emerging power, the Turkish elite\ud construct an “exceptionalist” identity that portrays Turkey in a liminal state. This liminality and thus the\ud “exceptionalist” identity it creates, is rooted in the hybridization of Turkey’s geographical and historical\ud characteristics. The Turkish foreign policy elite make every effort to underscore Turkey’s geography as\ud a meeting place of different continents. Historically, there has also been an ongoing campaign to depict\ud Turkey’s past as “multicultural” and multi-civilizational. These constructions of identity however, run\ud counter to the Kemalist nation-building project, which is based on “purity” in contrast to “hybridity”\ud both in terms of historiography and practice

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Section: Exceptionalismmentioning

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Constructing Turkish “exceptionalism”: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

Yanık

2011

Political Geography

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“…La modernisation impliquait un nombre restreint mais croissant d'acteurs : dans le schéma de B. Lewis, il s'agissait [de] « chrétiens ottomans et [de] quelques Turcs [qui] commencèrent à former dans la capitale une société nouvelle » 88 ; puis de nouvelles élites, de nouvelles professions. En comparaison, les populations marquées par les transformations sont certainement plus nombreuses 89 . Mais elles forment des ensembles aux limites non identifiées : « une classe moyenne nationale séculière (secular) nouvellement florissante » 90 .…”

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From Decline to Transformation. Reflections on a New Paradigm in Ottoman History

Bouquet¹

2016

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“…Scholars working on the Ottoman Empire (Aral, 2004;Bektas -, 2000;Brummett, 2007;Hanssen, 2011) through the standpoint of sites of modernity are able to move beyond the limitations of time and space to capture their impact on Ottoman imperial power. So far, they have employed three cultural sites, namely technology transfer, gender relations, and human rights to reveal how the negotiation of these sites within Ottoman state and society produced complex power transformations.…”

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Parameters of a Postcolonial Sociology of the Ottoman Empire

Göçek¹

2013

Political Power and Social Theory

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The traditional postcolonial focus on the modern and the European, and pre-modern and non-European empires has marginalized the study of empires like the Ottoman Empire whose temporal reign traversed the modern and pre-modern eras, and its geographical land mass covered parts of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia Minor, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa. Here, I first place the three postcolonial corollaries of the prioritization of contemporary inequality, the determination of its historical origins, and the target of its eventual elimination in conversation with the Ottoman Empire. I then discuss and articulate the two ensuing criticisms concerning the role of Islam and the fluidity of identities in states and societies. I argue that epistemologically, postcolonial studies criticize the European representations of Islam, but do not take the next step of generating alternate knowledge by engaging in empirical studies of Islamic empires like the Ottoman Empire. Ontologically, postcolonial studies draw strict official and unofficial lines between the European colonizer and the non-European colonized, yet such

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Gender and Empire in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Caricature, Models of Empire, and the Case for Ottoman Exceptionalism

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Constructing Turkish “exceptionalism”: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

Constructing Turkish “exceptionalism”: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

From Decline to Transformation. Reflections on a New Paradigm in Ottoman History

Parameters of a Postcolonial Sociology of the Ottoman Empire

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