Naming and Nation-building in Turkey
The 1934 Surname Law
Authors: Türköz, Meltem
Free Preview- Provides the only comprehensive academic study of the Turkish Surname Law and its reception
- Challenges the official accounts of the Kemalist reforms and reveals how these reforms were received and reframed in everyday life by diverse
- groups, including non-Muslim minorities
- Appeals to anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, historians, and anyone interested in the formation of the modern Middle East
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- About this book
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This book examines how the Turkish Surname Law of 1934 was adopted and reframed in diverse social contexts at a time of top down nationalism. Through historical ethnography, the author explores the genesis of the law, its drafting in parliament, the Turkish Language Reform, and its reception. The project draws from an oral historical narrative, official parliamentary and registry documents, and popular media.
- About the authors
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Meltem Türköz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Işık University, Turkey.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction: Surnames and the Construction of Turkish Citizens
Pages 1-29
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Intellectual Precursors and Cultural Context: Turkology, Language Reform, and Surnames
Pages 31-62
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Making, Disseminating, and Enforcing the Law
Pages 63-93
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Generating Surnames in Theory and Practice: Surnames Booklets and Registry Documents
Pages 95-115
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The Social Life of the State’s Fantasy
Pages 117-141
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Naming and Nation-building in Turkey
- Book Subtitle
- The 1934 Surname Law
- Authors
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- Meltem Türköz
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-56656-0
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-56656-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-57633-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95415-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 213
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations
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