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- 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
- Part IV Erdoğanism’s Undesired Citizens
- Part V Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 12 Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 13 The Use of Friday Sermons in Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens
- 14 The Future of Erdoğan’s Nation
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
14 - The Future of Erdoğan’s Nation
from Part V - Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
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
- Part IV Erdoğanism’s Undesired Citizens
- Part V Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 12 Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens via the Diyanet
- 13 The Use of Friday Sermons in Creating Erdoğanism’s Tolerated Citizens
- 14 The Future of Erdoğan’s Nation
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter summarises and discusses the findings of the book. It elaborates on how the hegemony of the Young Turks (and later Kemalist Republicans) and the Erdoğanist counter-hegemony in Turkey use very similar methods to build their nation, the same tools for social engineering, and the same procedures for the production of citizenship to establish and consolidate their respective hegemonies. The two opposing but influential political ideologies of modern Turkey have sometimes even used the same discourse, albeit for different purposes. There is also a significant degree of overlap between their undesired citizen categories. These are two different regimes relying on two different ideologies, but both of them target, otherise, and even demonise (mostly) the same groups, including Kurdish nationalists, Alevis, non-Muslims, leftists, liberals and practising Muslims who do not completely support the regimes. In addition to desired and undesired citizen typologies, Kemalism and Erdoğanism also have a liminal citizenship category, identity and typology: tolerated citizens (Homo Diyanetus). The chapter also summarises the innovations and contributions of the book, highlights its limitations and discusses potential future studied on the topic. Lastly, the chapter looks at the future of Erdoğan's nation.
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- Creating the Desired CitizenIdeology, State and Islam in Turkey, pp. 260 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021