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Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey Dogan Gurpinar

Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey By Dogan Gurpinar

Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey by Dogan Gurpinar


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This book analyzes how AKP's embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks.

Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey Summary

Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey: The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism by Dogan Gurpinar

This book analyzes how AKP's 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. Gurpinar 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.

About Dogan Gurpinar

Dogan Gurpinar is an associate professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITUE). He has published three books in English: Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860-1950 (2013), Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy (2014), and Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories in Turkey (2019).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The AKP's Intellectual Order and Political Technology in Comparative Perspectives2. Quasi-liberal Intellectuals as AKP Apparatchiks: The Second Republic, White Turks, and Other Apologetics3. Islamism, Populism, and Nativism: A Syncretic Brand4. Popular Culture and Conspiracy: Managing the Political Entertainment Scene5.The Rise of Politico Intellectuals: Think Tanks, and the Operators of Political Technology6. Allies: The AKP-MHP Coalition and the Defense Intellectuals7. The State of Turkish Universities during the AKP Rule8. Historians, Ottomanphilia, Perennial Islam, and Contested National Identity in an Era of Cultural War

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NPB9783031156519
9783031156519
303115651X
Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey: The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism by Dogan Gurpinar
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2022-12-16
175
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