SOCI 203

TURKISH SOCIETY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

SPRING 2004

Instructor: Deniz Yükseker

Class Times: M-W 14:00-15:15 Place: CAS B26

Office: SOS 228 Office Phone: 338 1309

Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 and Wednesdays 16:00-17:00

e-mail: dyukseker@ku.edu.tr

Course home page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~dyukseker/

Course Description: This course surveys a range of topics on modern Turkish society from a sociological perspective. The emphasis will be on social, economic and cultural transformations within the society. Topics include: political economy of Turkish modernization, state-society relations, rural transformation, migration, urbanization, changing gender relations, nation-building and national identity, social inequality, etc. Announcements, time and place changes and other material about the course will be available on the course web page. Please visit this site regularly.

Course Requirements: The course will be based on lectures, discussions, and possibly a couple of film screenings. Regular attendance and active participation are required since the material discussed in class will often go beyond the readings. You must do the readings BEFORE each class. You should write 4 short summaries (2-3 double-spaced, typed pages) on four weeks’ reading material (readings for two weeks before the midterm, and two weeks after the midterm). The summaries are due on the week that the readings will be covered in class. Evaluation will be based on a midterm exam, a research paper, a final exam, and the four reading summaries. You should determine your research paper topic in consultation with me on a subject that is relevant to the course. The papers are due on the last week of class. I will provide a reader at the beginning of the semester containing all of the readings for this course.

The breakdown of grades is as follows:

30 percent: midterm

30 percent: final

30 percent: research paper

10 percent: four reading summaries (2.5 points x 4)

CLASS SCHEDULE

Week 1, February 16 and 18: Introduction

Reşat Kasaba: “Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities” in Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, edited by Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba, 1997.

Week 2, February 23 and 25: State Building, Modernization and National Identity

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

Soner Çağaptay: “Kemalist Dönemde Göç ve İskan Politikaları: Türk Kimliği üzerine bir Çalışma” in Toplum ve Bilim, no. 93, Summer 2002.

Çağlar Keyder: “Looking for the Missing Bourgeoisie” in State and Class in Turkey, 1987.

Rıfat Bali: “Toplumsal Bellek ve Varlık Vergisi” in Hatırladıkları ve Unuttuklarıyla Türkiye’nin Toplumsal Hafızası, 2001, edited by Esra Özyeğin.

Ayhan Aktar: “Varlık Vergisi ve İstanbul” in Toplum ve Bilim, no. 71, 1996.

Week 3, March 1 and 3: State Building (cont’d)

Çağlar Keyder: “State and Capital,” “Populism and Democracy,” “Import Substituting Industrialisation,” and “Crisis Dynamics” all chapters in State and Class in Turkey, 1987.

Week 4, March 8 and 10: Political Economy of Turkish Industrialization

Korkut Boratav, Oktar Türel and Erinç Yeldan: “Distributional Dynamics in Turkey under ‘Structural Adjustment’ of the 1980s” in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 11, Fall, 1994.

Ahmet Haşim Köse and Erinç Yeldan: “Turkish Economy in the 1990s: an Assessment of Fiscal Policies, Labor Markets and Foreign Trade,” in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 18, Spring 1998.

Berna Güler-Müftüoğlu: “İstanbul-Gedikpaşa’da Ayakkabı Üretiminin Değişen Yapısı ve Farklılaşan İşgücü” in Toplum ve Bilim, Fall 2000, no. 86.

Week 5, March 15 and 17: Rural Transformation and Urbanization

Bahattin Akşit: “İçgöçlerin Nesnel ve Öznel Toplumsal Tarihi üzerine Gözlemler: Köy tarafından bir Bakış” in Türkiye’de İç Göç: Sorunsal Alanları ve Araştırma Yöntemleri Konferansı, edited by Ahmet İçduygu et al., 1998.

Bahattin Akşit et al. “Population Movements in Southeastern Anatolia: Some Findings of an Empirical Research in 1993” in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 14, 1996.

Çağlar Keyder: “Liberalization from Above and the Future of the Informal Sector. Land, Shelter, and Informality in the Periphery” in Informalization, edited by Faruk Tabak, 2000.

Week 6, March 22 and 24: Migration and Urban Poverty

Necmi Erdoğan: “Yok-sanma: Yoksulluk-Maduniyet ve “Fark Yaraları”

Mustafa Şen: “Kökene Dayalı Dayanışma-Yardımlaşma: ‘Zor İş’...”

(both articles in Yoksulluk Halleri. Türkiye’de Kent Yoksulluğunun Toplumsal Görünümleri, edited by Necmi Erdoğan, 2002)

Betül Altuntaş: Mendile, Simite, Boyaya, Çöpe... Ankara Sokaklarında Çalışan Çocuklar, 2003. (chapters to be announced)

Sema Erder: Kentsel Gerilim, 1997 (chapters to be announced)

Week 7, March 29 and 31: Gender Relations and Modernity

Deniz Kandiyoti: “Patterns of Patriarchy: Notes for an Analysis for Male Dominance in Turkish Society,” in Women in Modern Turkish Society. A Reader, edited by Şirin Tekeli, 1995.

Yeşim Arat: “The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey”

Deniz Kandiyoti: “Gendering the Modern. On Missing Dimensions in the Study of Turkish Modernity” (both articles in Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, edited by Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba, 1997.

Aksu Bora: “’Olmayanın Nesini İdare Edeceksin?’: Yoksulluk, Kadınlar ve Hane” in Yoksulluk Halleri.

Tahire Erman: “The Impact of Migration on Turkish Rural Women. Four Emergent Patterns” in Gender and Society, 1998, no. 12, pp. 146-167.

Week 8, April 5 and 7: Ruptures in Turkish Modernity: Ethnicity, Identity and Culture

Hakan Yavuz, “Five Stages of the Construction of Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey,” in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 7, no. 3, 2002.

Elise Massicard: “Alevist Movements at Home and Abroad: Mobilization Spaces and Disjunction” in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 28-29, Spring-Fall 2003.

Betül Çelik: “Alevi Kurds” in Turkey’s Alevi Enigma. A Comprehensive Overview, edited by Paul White and Joost Jorgerden, 2003.

Week 9, April 12 and 14:

Monday: Review

Wednesday: Midterm exam (in class)

Week 10, April 26 and 28: Ruptures, continued

Yael Navaro-Yashin: “The Market for Identitites: Buying and Selling Secularity and Islam” and “Fantasies for the State: Hype, Cynicism, and the Everyday Life of Statecraft” in Faces of the State, 2002.

Ayşe Saktanber: “’We Pray like You Have Fun”: New Islamic Youth in Turkey between Intellectualism and Popular Culture” in Fragments of Culture.

Ayşe Öncü: “Global Consumerism, Sexuality as a Public Spectacle, and the Cultural Remapping of Istanbul in the 1990s” in Fragments of Culture, 2002, edited by D. Kandiyoti and A. Saktanber.

Ayşe Durakbaşa and Dilek Cindoğlu: “Encounters at the Counter: Gender and the Shopping Experience” in Fragments of Culture.

Asuman Suner: “Nostalgia for an Imaginary Home: Memory, Space, and Identity in the New Turkish Cinema” in New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 2002, no. 27.

Meral Özbek: “Arabesk Culture: A Case of Modernization and Popular Identity” in Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, edited by Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba, 1997.

DEADLINE FOR DISCUSSING YOUR RESEARCH PAPER TOPICS WITH ME

Week 11, May 3 And 5: Globalization and Istanbul as a World City

Çağlar Keyder: “The Setting” in Istanbul between the Global and the Local, 1999, edited by Ç. Keyder.

More articles from the same book to be announced

Week 12, May 10 and 12: Globalization from a different vantage point: Illegal Migration

Ahmet İçduygu and Şule Toktaş: “How do Smuggling and Trafficking Operate via Irregular Border Crossings in the Middle East? Evidence from Fieldwork in Turkey,” 2002, International Migration, vol. 40, no. 6.

Sema Erder and Selma Kaşka: “Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Women: The Case of Turkey”, 2003, IOM Publication. (selected chapters) (http://www.iom.int)

Deniz Yükseker: “Trust and Gender in a Transnational Marketplace: Laleli, Istanbul,” 2004, Public Culture, vol. 16, no. 2

Week 13, May 17: Turkey in Europe

“Introduction: Turkish Migration to Germany-Forty Years After” in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 28-29, Spring-Fall 2003.

Sabine Mannitz: “Turkish Youths in Berlin: Transnational Identification and Double Agency” in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 28-29, Spring-Fall 2003.

Yeşim Burul: “The World of Aziza A.: Third Space in Identities” in New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 28-29, Spring-Fall 2003.

Week 14, May 24 and 26:

Review