Sener Akturk

Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey

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Produktbeschreibung

Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish changed at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9781107021433
• ISBN-10: 110702143X
• Artikelnr.: 36146955

Autorenporträt

Sener Akturk is an Assistant Professor at Koç University in Istanbul. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago (BA, MA) and the University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD). He has spent extended periods in Vienna, Berlin and Moscow for language study and doctoral research. Prior to his current appointment, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a visiting lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He is a recipient of a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant from the European Commission. He has published more than thirty articles in international and national refereed academic journals including World Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, the European Journal of Sociology, Middle Eastern Studies, Nationalities Papers, Ab Imperio, Turkish Studies, Insight Turkey and Theoria. He has authored chapters in various edited books published in Turkey, Russia, Hungary and the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theoretical Framework and Empirical Overview: 1. Regimes of
ethnicity: comparative analysis of Germany, Soviet Union, post-Soviet
Russia, and Turkey; Part II. Germany: 2. The challenges to the monoethnic
regime in Germany, 1955-1982; 3. The construction of an assimilationist
discourse and political hegemony: transition from a monoethnic to an
antiethnic regime in Germany, 1982-2000; Part III. Turkey: 4. Challenges to
the ethnicity regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish demands for recognition,
1923-1980; 5. From social democracy to Islamic multiculturalism: failed and
successful attempts to reform the ethnicity regime in Turkey, 1980-2009;
Part IV. Soviet Union and the Russian Federation: 6. The nation that wasn't
there?: Sovetskii narod discourse, nation-building, and passport ethnicity,
1953-1983; 7. Ethnic diversity and state-building in post-Soviet Russia:
removal of ethnicity from the internal passport and its aftermath,
1992-2008; Part V. Conclusion: 8. Dynamics of persistence and change in
ethnicity regimes.