Book contents
- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Anxious Nation and Its Ambivalent Westernism
- Part I Kemalism and Its Desired, Undesired, Tolerated Citizens
- Part II Emergence of the Counter-Hegemony: Erdoğanism
- Part III Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture and Education
- 8 Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizen
- 9 Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture
- 10 Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Education
- Part IV Erdoğanism’s Undesired Citizens
- Part V Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
9 - Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture
from Part III - Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture and Education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2021
- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Creating the Desired Citizen
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Anxious Nation and Its Ambivalent Westernism
- Part I Kemalism and Its Desired, Undesired, Tolerated Citizens
- Part II Emergence of the Counter-Hegemony: Erdoğanism
- Part III Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture and Education
- 8 Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizen
- 9 Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Popular Culture
- 10 Creating Erdoğanism’s Desired Citizens via Education
- Part IV Erdoğanism’s Undesired Citizens
- Part V Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the use of popular culture and the personality cult of Erdoğan in creating the desired citizens of Erdoğanism, the Homo Erdoğanistus. Media, entertainment and pop culture are used to raise the Erdoğanist generation. One of the influential tools of doing this is to manufacture and propagate the personality cult of Erdoğan via different narratives, acts, speeches, performances, emotional instances, movies and TV dramas. All these have been informed and guided by the Erdoğanist ideology. Also, via historical movies and dramas, socio-political reality is shaped to help the Erdoğanist political cause. This chapter discuss, first, Erdoğan’s personality cult and its propagation. Then it elaborates on Erdoğanist myth-making and the rewriting of history. This is followed by an analysis of how reality has been shaped by using movies and historical TV dramas. The chapter then focuses on Erdoğan’s open and direct support for these movies and dramas.
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- Creating the Desired CitizenIdeology, State and Islam in Turkey, pp. 169 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021