Kemalism and the Making of Modern Turkey | Erik-Jan Zürcher

E323 | In this collaboration with The Southeast Passage, we discuss the emergence of the Turkish nationalist movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the establishment of a sovereign Republic of Turkey in 1923. As our guest Prof. Erik-Jan Zürcher notes, Kemalism can be studied both as a political transformation from armed struggle to a one-party state administration system and as a repertoire of discursive symbols based on the imaginary of nation, civilization, and modernity. This installment is structured along a series of lectures that Prof. Zürcher has given at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, in which he has framed Kemalism’s activism and worldview within its contemporary international context as well as along a broader chronological axis continuing into the 1950s. More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/zurcher.html Erik-Jan Zürcher is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). He has published widely on the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey from the point of view of social, economic, and political history. Professor Zürcher is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Andreas Guidi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the EHESS in Paris researching on networks, generations, and capital transmission in late and post-Ottoman Rhodes. He is also the creator of the Southeast Passage podcast. Elif Becan is a Ph.D. Candidate at the CETOBaC/EHESS in Paris. Her doctoral research focuses on the categorization of outsiders through the case of populations of Albanian origin in Turkey in the first half of the 20th century. CREDITS Episode No. 323 Release Date: 6 July 2017 Recording Location: EHESS, Paris Audio editing by Andreas Guidi Music: Giulio Stermieri – “The Southeast Passage Theme” (intro and outro); Turku, Nomads of the Silk Road – “Ah bir ataş ver” (Creative Commons) Images and bibliography courtesy of Erik-Jan Zürcher available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/zurcher.html