Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey : the intellectual order of Islamism and populism / Doğan Gürpınar.
Gürpınar, Doğan, author.
2023
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Title
Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey : the intellectual order of Islamism and populism / Doğan Gürpınar.
Author
Gürpınar, Doğan, author.
ISBN
9783031156526 (electronic bk.)
3031156528 (electronic bk.)
303115651X
9783031156519
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15652-6
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-15652-6 doi
Call Number
DR603
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.9561
Summary
This book analyzes how AKPs embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks. This project adapts a post-Soviet geography approach to the media, intelligentsia, and political discourse as derivative of authoritarian regimes to the Turkish context. It offers a fresh look at the Turkish political and intellectual scene and a comparative study of the populist-authoritarian politics of Turkey. Situated in the literature on the post-Soviet authoritarian regimes and their ways of governing, as well as their manipulation of public opinion, the book analyzes AKP-aligned intellectuals as apparatchiks. Gurpnar explores the different constellations of pro-AKP intellectuals vindicating the AKP regime from various angles, including: liberal/progressive intellectuals who initially supported the party for its liberal vistas but continued their support by twisting their progressive rhetoric; Islamist intellectuals blending their Islamism with populism; and national security intellectuals who joined after the AKP came to propagate a national security agenda. The book also provides an overview of the mechanisms of political technology, including the media landscape and its running by the AKP, intellectuals themselves as operators of political technology, and the problem of "cultural power." The book will be of interest to those studying comparative authoritarian politics, populism, political communication, and scholars of Middle East and Eastern Europe. Dogan Gurpnar is an associate professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He has published three books in English: Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 18601950 (2013), Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy (2014), and Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories in Turkey (2019).
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed March 10, 2023).
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Palgrave pivot.
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1. Introduction: The AKPs Intellectual Order and Political Technology in Comparative Perspectives
2. Quasi-liberal Intellectuals as AKP Apparatchiks: The Second Republic, White Turks, and Other Apologetics
3. Islamism, Populism, and Nativism: A Syncretic Brand
4. Popular Culture and Conspiracy: Managing the Political Entertainment Scene
5.The Rise of Politico Intellectuals: Think Tanks, and the Operators of Political Technology
6. Allies: The AKP-MHP Coalition and the Defense Intellectuals
7. The State of Turkish Universities during the AKP Rule
8. Historians, Ottomanphilia, Perennial Islam, and Contested National Identity in an Era of Cultural War.

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