More than a sovereign symbol? The public reception of the early monumental statues of Atatürk in Turkey

Name: More than a sovereign symbol? The public reception of the early monumental statues of Atatürk in Turkey
Author: Güçler, Arda, Gür, Faik

İsim	More than a sovereign symbol? The public reception of the early monumental statues of Atatürk in Turkey
Yazar	Güçler, Arda, Gür, Faik
Basım Tarihi:	2021-10
Basım Yeri	- Wiley
Konu	Atatürk monuments, Democracy, Nationalism, Symbolism, Turkey
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1354-5078
Kayıt Numarası	c9ba6907-42c6-46c0-841b-0b7f926b0747
Lokasyon	International Relations
Tarih	2021-10
Örnek Metin	The early monumental statues of Ataturk in Turkey have so far been studied from the perspective of the state and its ambition to disseminate a national consciousness. While this state-centric approach has been helpful to understand the role of symbolism in nation-building, it ends up reducing people to a passive recipient of symbolic indoctrination. We, in contrast, approach public perception as an active component in the discursive construction of these monuments over time. We first analyse the period until the death of Ataturk in 1938 during which the democratic possibility of conflicting with the official narrative remained quite minimal. We then look at the aftermath of Ataturk's death, which coincides with the introduction of the multiparty democracy in Turkey where there were more critical engagements with these monuments, particularly by the right-wing constituents and politicians. We conclude that such resistance was still discursively bound by the nationalist context within which it operated. Our analysis of the politics of symbolism in Turkey taps into the theoretical works of Hanna Pitkin and Warren Breckman.
DOI	10.1111/nana.12757
Cilt	27

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More than a sovereign symbol? The public reception of the early monumental statues of Atatürk in Turkey

Yazar Güçler, Arda, Gür, Faik

Basım Tarihi 2021-10

Basım Yeri - Wiley

Konu Atatürk monuments, Democracy, Nationalism, Symbolism, Turkey

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1354-5078

Kayıt Numarası c9ba6907-42c6-46c0-841b-0b7f926b0747

Lokasyon International Relations

Tarih 2021-10

Örnek Metin The early monumental statues of Ataturk in Turkey have so far been studied from the perspective of the state and its ambition to disseminate a national consciousness. While this state-centric approach has been helpful to understand the role of symbolism in nation-building, it ends up reducing people to a passive recipient of symbolic indoctrination. We, in contrast, approach public perception as an active component in the discursive construction of these monuments over time. We first analyse the period until the death of Ataturk in 1938 during which the democratic possibility of conflicting with the official narrative remained quite minimal. We then look at the aftermath of Ataturk's death, which coincides with the introduction of the multiparty democracy in Turkey where there were more critical engagements with these monuments, particularly by the right-wing constituents and politicians. We conclude that such resistance was still discursively bound by the nationalist context within which it operated. Our analysis of the politics of symbolism in Turkey taps into the theoretical works of Hanna Pitkin and Warren Breckman.

DOI 10.1111/nana.12757

Cilt 27