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Humanism in Ruins

Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange

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Produktbeschreibung

Asli Igsiz is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781503606357
• ISBN-10: 150360635X
• Artikelnr.: 50911746

Autorenporträt

Asl¿ I¿s¿z is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
By Way of an Introduction: The Entangled Legacies of a Population Exchange
chapter abstract
This chapter introduces the key concepts as well as the general approach
and methodology of the book: biopolitics, humanism, ruins, and palimpsests.
These concepts are later further developed in the relevant chapters, in
relation to the analysis of the sources, but here they are laid out in
relation to the entangled legacies of the 1923 exchange in general. The
Introduction also provides a lengthy historicization of the 1923 exchange
together with the notion of "racialized thinking" that constitutes the
basis for the discussion of biopolitics and humanism.
Part I: Humanism and Its Discontents: Biopolitics, the Politics of
Expertise, and the Human Family
chapter abstract
This chapter discusses various scholars-eugenicists, sociologists,
anthropologists, and legal scholars among others-and their intellectual
networks to unravel a complex, transnational intellectual and cultural
history, and addresses the entangled dynamics revolving around the
segregative legacy of the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange. Focusing
on the first decade after 1945, this part traces how segregative
biopolitics was addressed transnationally through a refugee association
presided over by a Turkish eugenicist, Fahreddin Kerim Gökay, and founded
in collaboration with an Italian eugenicist and statistician, Corrado
Gini-who also was a supporter of Mussolini's fascism. The 1923 exchange was
a reference point for the association and for the research it promoted.
Against this backdrop, the chapter also analyzes the rise of
UNESCO-oriented cultural policies developed to address alterity and race
during that period, with a special focus on liberal humanism and a
photography exhibition: The Family of Man.
Part II: Of Origins and "Men": Family History, Genealogy, and Historicist
Humanism Revisited
chapter abstract
This part turns to the notions of genealogy and origins and attends to
their different uses across time and space in relation to the 1923
exchange, racialized thinking, and historicist humanism. It begins with
post-1990s Turkey and traces how legacies of segregative biopolitics were
primarily engaged on a personal level through family histories configured
as cultural heritage. Engaging individual and institutional practices that
configured family histories as sites of articulating different
backgrounds-alterity-after the 1980 military coup, the part considers the
implications of engaging biopolitical ruins via individual genealogies and
origins configured through the family. Next, it historicizes other forms of
engaging genealogies and origins and examines this process through
historicist humanism and racialized thinking, which were instrumental in
categorizing peoples on the paths that led to segregative policies in
general, the 1923 Greco-Turkish exchange in particular.
Part III: Unity in Diversity: Culture, Social Cohesion, and Liberal
Multiculturalism
chapter abstract
This part traces the palimpsests of cultural policy pertaining to
contemporary liberal multiculturalism in Turkey and the European Union.
Addressing liberal and historicist humanism embedded in liberal
multiculturalism narratives in Turkey and beyond, this part engages the
discourses and policies that enabled the building of the first 1923
Greco-Turkish Population Exchange Museum in Turkey as part of the Istanbul
2010 European Capital of Culture project. Considering the impact of
UNESCO's cultural policies on the EU, which then traveled to Turkey, this
part addresses the limits of liberal multiculturalism and the form it took
in Turkey: neo-Ottomanism. After tracing the transnational crossing of
liberal multiculturalism to Turkey, the part turns to the local historical
context that neo-Ottomanism draws from: cultural policy in the post-1980
coup era and the Turkish-Islamic synthesis and its broader implications for
the fascistic historicist humanism mobilized during the 1980 coup era.
In Lieu of a Conclusion: Cultural Analysis in an Age of Securitarianism
chapter abstract
The Conclusion picks up the threads of the analysis laid out throughout the
book and reconsiders the relevance of the book's key concepts such as
biopolitics, segregation, and culture from the perspective of the
contemporary rise of neofascism, securitarianism, and xenophobia.