Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey Resentment, Nostalgia, Narcissism

Tokdoğan combines cutting-edge perspectives on symbolic and emotional politics to analyse Neo-Ottomanism as a powerful political narrative under the AKP and Erdoğan, which has transformed the national habitus of contemporary Turkey. Engaging, scholarly and enlightening, this book will be essential r...

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Main Author: Tokdoğan, Nagehan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. On Emotions, Politics and Political Symbols
  • Chapter 3. Neo-Ottomanism as an Alternative Narrative of National Identity
  • Chapter 4. From Victimization to Omnipotence: The Pathos of Erdoğan as a Constituent Symbol of the Neo-Ottomanist Narrative
  • Chapter 5. Istanbul as the Symbolic Space of the Neo-Ottomanist Narrative: Nostalgia, Romanticism and Domestic Imperial Greed
  • Chapter 6. Sites of an Islamic desire for homecoming: the Hagia Sophia and Çamlıca Mosque
  • Chapter 7. Towards the Construction of a Neo-Ottomanist Myth: The “Legend” of 15 July and National Narcissism
  • Chapter 7. Conclusion