The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316515464)

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atat?k and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political change of Turkey as much as Atat?k's strong spurt of modernization. Adopting a broader conception of politics, focusing on daily interactions between the state and society and using untapped archival sources, Murat Metinsoy reveals how rural and urban people coped with the state policies, local oppression, exploitation, and adverse conditions wrought by the Great Depression through diverse everyday survival and resistance strategies. Showing how the people's daily practices and beliefs survived and outweighed the modernizing elite's projects, this book gives new insights into the social and historical origins of Turkey's backslide to conservative and Islamist politics, demonstrating that the making of modern Turkey was an outcome of intersection between the modernization and the people's responses to it.

Author: Murat Metinsoy
ISBN-10: 131651546X
ISBN-13: 9781316515464
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2021
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2023