Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher talk about their book, A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments.
Featured in episode 46: History in Fragments podcast by The Lausanne Project, they share their innovative approach and what exactly we mean when we refer to ‘Turkish studies’.
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“In this podcast recorded on 9 December 2023, Erik-Jan and his co-editor Alp answer questions from TLP’s Ozan Ozavci and Enno Maessen. They discuss the story behind the cover of the book, their innovative approach and what exactly we mean when we refer to ‘Turkish studies’. They also consider where their volume stands in the ongoing discussion surrounding post- and post-post-Kemalism, arguing that the contents of their book straddle these diverse approaches. For Erik-Jan it is high time we had a new paradigm, though he does not see one emerging yet. For Alp, what we need is not another single paradigm, but rather multiple ones, while Ozan proposes we emancipate ourselves from a Kemalist ontology entirely, and reframe this as a gradual move from a revisionist to a post-revisionist approach. The conversation ends with a reading of one of Alp’s favourite fragments from the book, on arabesque music in Turkey.” Orginal text source: The Lausanne project
Image source: DAILY SABAH.
