Cshs 507 turkish state and society II

CSHS 507 TURKISH STATE AND SOCIETY II
Spring 2008

Instructor: Deniz Yükseker

Class: CAS B26 Time: 14:15-17:00

Course web page: available on Courseware (through KUAIS)

Office: SOS254, phone: x 1309

Office hours: Wednesday 11:00-12:00, Thursday 14:30-16:00, and by appointment

Course Description: This course introduces a number of themes in the study of Turkish society from sociological, anthropological and political economy perspectives. Rather than canvassing an exhaustive list of topics, our goal in this course will be to examine different approaches on state-society relations, economic life, migration, gender, and the Kurdish question. While doing this, we will sometimes contextualize Turkish experiences within broader conceptual and regional frameworks.
Course Requirements: Regular attendance, active participation, keeping up with the readings and timely fulfillment of all assignments are essential for your success in this course. Evaluation will be based on three reading responses and presentations (15 percent each), one take-home exam (25 percent), a final paper (25 percent), and participation (5 percent). Take-home exams and final papers will be submitted through the “turn-it-in” program.
Important Note: Koç University and Sociology Department guidelines on academic integrity apply. (See course web page for details.)
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1: 5 February

INTRODUCTION
Week 2: 12 February

THE INSIDE AND THE OUTSIDE: CONSTRUCTIONS OF MEMBERSHIP
Mesut Yeğen, “Citizenship and Ethnicity in Turkey,” Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 40, no. 5,

2004: 682-708.

Nükhet Sirman, “The Making of Familial Citizenship in Turkey” in Citizenship in a

Global World – European Questions and Turkish Experiences, eds. Fuat Keyman and Ahmet

İçduygu, London: Routledge, 2005: 147-172.

Kader Konuk, “Eternal Guests, Mimics, and Dönme: The Place of German and Turkish Jews in Modern Turkey” NPT, no. 37, Fall 2007: 5-30.

Ayşe Buğra, “Poverty and Citizenship: An Overview of the Social-Policy Environment in Republican Turkey,” IJMES, vol. 39, 2007: 33-57.

Suggestion for further reading:

Seteney Shami, “Disjuncture in Ethnicity: Negotiating Circassian Identity in Jordan, Turkey

and the Caucasus,” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 12, Spring 1995:79-96.

Tanıl Bora, “İnşa Döneminde Türk Milli Kimliği,” Toplum ve Bilim, no. 71, 1996

Suavi Aydın, “Amacımız Devletin Bekası.” Demokratikleşme Sürecinde Devlet ve Yurttaşlar, 2005, İstanbul: TESEV.
Week 3: 19 February

FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING
Meltem Ahıska, “Occidentalism and Registers of Truth: The Politics of Archives in

Turkey,” NPT, no. 34, 2006: 9-30.

Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, “Forgetting the Smyrna Fire”, HWJ, no. 60, 2005: 25-44.

Ayfer Bartu, “Remembering a 9000 Years Old Site: Present-ing Çatalhöyük,” in The Politics of Public Memory, ed. Esra Özyürek, 2007, Syracuse University Pres: 70-94.

Week 4: 26 February

ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE STATE
Yael Navaro-Yashin: “Introduction,” and chapters 4 and 5 in Faces of the State. Secularism and Public Life in Turkey, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002: 1-16 and 117-187.
Week 5: 4 March

… AND OF OTHER STATES

Thomas Hansen Blom and Finn Stepputat, “Introduction” In Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005: 1-36.

Gupta, Akhil. “Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State” American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 2, May 1005: 375-402.

Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, “Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela” in States of Violence, eds. Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006: 83-143.
Suggestions for further reading:

Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, “Introduction: States of Violence and the Violence of States” in States of Violence, eds. Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006: 1-31.

Week 6: 11 March

STUDYING NATIONALISM – FROM BELOW
Ferhat Kentel, Meltem Ahıska and Fırat Genç, “Milletin Bölünmez Bütünlüğü” Demokratikleşme Sürecinde Parçalayan Milliyetçilik(ler), İstanbul: TESEV, 2007, selected chapters.

Possible social science seminar/guest speaker: Ferhat Kentel and Meltem Ahıska

Week 7: 18 March

STATECRAFT
Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, and Modernity, Berkeley: University of California Press, Introduction, chapters 1, 7, 8
Week 8: 25 March

SOCIAL CHANGE UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
Çağlar Keyder, “Liberalization from Above and the Future of the Informal Sector: Land, Shelter, and Informality in the Periphery” in Informalization. Process and Structure, eds. Faruk Tabak and Michaeline Crichlow, 2000: 119-132.

Yılmaz Akyüz and Korkut Boratav, “The Making of the Turkish Financial Crisis” World Development, vol. 31, no. 9, 2003: 1549-1566.

Ali Murat Özdemir and Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir, “Labor Law Reform in Turkey in the 2000s. The Devil is not just in the Details but also in the Legal Texts,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2006, no. 27: 311-331.

Surhan Cam, “Neo-liberalism and Labor within the Context of an ‘Emerging Market’ Economy-Turkey,” Capital and Class, v. 77, Summer 2002: 89-114.

Suggestions for further reading:

Bahattin Akşit, “Studies in Rural Transformation in Turkey. 1950-1990” in Culture and Economy, ed. Paul Stirling, Cambridgeshire: The Eothen Press, 1993: 171-185.

Çağlar Keyder, “The Genesis of Petty Commodity Production in Agriculture,” in Culture and Economy, ed. Paul Stirling, Cambridgeshire: The Eothen Press, 1993: 187-200.

Ayşe Öncü, “The Politics of the Urban Land Market in Turkey: 1950-1980,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988: 38-64.

Ayşe Buğra, “The Immoral Economy of Housing in Turkey,” International Journal of urban and Regional Research, vol. 22, no.2, 1998: 303-317.

Işık, O. And M. M. Pınarcıoğlu, Nöbetleşe Yoksulluk. Sultanbeyli Örneği. 2001. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.

Sema Erder, İstanbul’a Bir Kent Kondu. Ümraniye, 1997, İstanbul: İletişim.

Tahire Erman and Aslıhan Eken, “The “Other of the Other” and “unregulated territories” in the urban periphery: gecekondu violence in the 2000s with a focus on the Esenler case, Istanbul” Cities, vol. 21, no. 1, 2004: 57-68.

Ümit Cizre and Erinç Yeldan. (2005). “The Turkish encounter with neo-liberalism: economics and politics in the 2000/2001 crises.” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 12, no. 3: 387-408.

Çağlar Keyder, “The Turkish Bell Jar” NLR, no. 28, 2004: 65-84.

Week 9: 1 April

ETHNOGRAPHY OF MARKETS IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA
Julia Elyachar, Markets of Dispossession. NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo, 2005, Durham: Duke University Press, chapters 1, 6, 7.
Suggestions for further reading:

Koray Çalışkan, “Price as a Market Device: Cotton Trading in İzmir Mercantile Exchange,” Sociological Review, 2007: 241-260.

Ayşe Buğra and Çağlar Keyder, “The Turkish Welfare Regime in Transformation,” Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 16, no. 3, 2006: 211-228.

Tuğçe Bulut and Fikret Adaman, Diyarbakır’dan İstanbul’a 500 Milyonluk Umut Hikayeleri, 2007, İstanbul: İletişim.

Deniz Yükseker, “Shuttling Goods, Weaving Consumer Tastes. Informal Trade between Turkey and Russia,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 31, no.1, March 2007: 60-72.

TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM
S p r i n g B r e a k
Week 10: 15 April

ETHNOGRAHPHY OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THE STATE
Michael Goldman, Imperial Nature. The World Bank and Social Justice in an Age of Globalization, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005: chapters 1, 3, 6.
Week 11: 22 April

MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM
Ayşe Parla, “Irregular Workers or Ethnic Kin? Post 1990s Labor Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey” International Migration, vol. 45, no. 3, 2007: 158-181.

Ayşe Çağlar, “Rescaling Cities, Cultural Diversity and Transnationalism: Migrants of Mardin and Essen” Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 6: 1070-1095.

Leyla Keogh, “Globalizing Post-Socialism: Mobile Mothers and Neoliberalism on the Margins of Europe” Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 79, 2006: 432-461.
Suggestion for further reading:

Deniz Yükseker, “Trust and Gender in a Transnational Marketplace: The Public Culture of Laleli, Istanbul” Public Culture, volume 16, no. 1, Winter 2004: 47-65.

Week 12: 29 April

GENDER, MODERNITY AND INEQUALITY
Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran” in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod, 1998, Princeton: Princeton University Press: 91-125.

Ayşe Gül Altınay, The Myth of the Military Nation, chapters TBA.

Dicle Koğacıoğlu, “Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey,” Differences. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 118-151.

Ferhunde Özbay, “Evlerde Elkızları: Cariyeler, Evlatlıklar, Gelinler,” Feminist Tarihyazımında Sınıf ve Cinsiyet, eds. Leonore Davidoff and Ayşe Durakbaşa, 2002, İstanbul: İletişim.

Suggestions for further reading:

Deniz Kandiyoti, “Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey” in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod, 1998, Princeton: Princeton University Press: 270-288.

Yeşim Arat, “From Emancipation to Liberation: The Changing Role of Women in Turkey’s Public Realm,” Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2000, vol. 54, no. 1: 107-123.

Omnia Shakry, “Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt” in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod, 1998, Princeton: Princeton University Press: 126-170.

Aksu Bora, Kadınların Sınıfı, 2005, İstanbul: İletişim.

Tahire Erman, Sibel Kalaycıoğlu and Helga Rittersberger-Tılıç, “Money-earning activities and empowerment experiences of rural migrant women in the city. The case of Turkey” Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 25, no. 4, 2002: 395-410.

Tahire Erman, “Rural Migrants and Patriarchy in Turkish Cities” IJURR, vol. 25, no.1, March 2001: 118-133.

Ayşe Gül Altınay and Yeşim Arat, Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet, 2007, İstanbul.

Aksu Bora and İlknur Üstün, “Sıcak Aile Ortamı.”Demokratikleşme Sürecinde Kadın ve Erkekler. İstanbul: TESEV, 2005.
Week 13: 6 May

STUDYING THE KURDISH ISSUE

Mesut Yeğen, “The Kurdish Question in Turkish State Discourse,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.34, No.4, October 1999: 555-568.

Zerrin Özlem Biner, “From Terrorist to Repentant: Who is the Victim?” History and Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 4, December 2006: 339-353.

Finn Stepputat, “Violence, Sovereignty and Citizenship in Postcolonial Peru” in Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005: 61-81

Possible social science seminar/guest speaker: Mesut Yeğen
Suggestions for further reading:

Mesut Yeğen, Devlet Söyleminde Kürt Sorunu, 1999, İstanbul: İletişim.

Mesut Yeğen, “Jewish-Kurds or the New Frontiers of Turkish Nationalism,” Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 41, no. 1. 2007.

Anna Secor, “’There is an Istanbul that Belongs to Me’: Citizenship, Space and Identity in the

City,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 94, no.2, 2004: 352-368.

Barış Karapınar, “Land Inequality in Rural Southeastern Turkey: Rethinking

Agricultural Development,” NPT, no. 32, 2005: 165-197.

Bilgin Ayata and Deniz Yükseker, “A Belated Awakening: National and International Responses to the Internal Displacement of Kurds in Turkey,” NPT, no. 35, 2005: 5-42.

Ayşe Betül Çelik and Andrew Blum, “Future Uncertain. Using Scenarios to Understand Turkey’s Geopolitical Environment and its Impact on the Kurdish Question,” Ethnopolitics, vol. 6, no. 4, 2007: 569-583.

Lale Yalçın-Heckmann, Kürtlerde Aşiret ve Akrabalık İlişkileri, 2002, İstanbul: İletişim, especially chapters 1 and 4.

Week 14: 13 May

Review