H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

Neo-Ottomanism · Gendered Nostalgia: Neo-Ottomanism in Islamist Women’s Media in Turkey

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-09-07 → 2022-09-06
Финансиране от ЕС: 219 312 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Неоотоманизмът в Турция се проследява чрез анализи на женски ислямски списания, които свързват националната история с религиозната носталгия. Това помага да се разбере как жените редактори участват в разпространението на тези политически идеи и как те влияят върху образа на идеалната жена.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Gendered Nostalgia: Neo-Ottomanism in Islamist Women’s Media in Turkey

The authoritarianism of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey has been growing significantly, a trend legitimised since 2007 by neo-Ottomanism, which aims to revitalize the glory of the Ottoman Empire in contemporary society. The project aims to elucidate the current uses of history and nostalgia in Turkish politics and culture by focusing on the Islamic publishing sector and investigating the means by which women editors creatively contribute to this trend. By integrating gendered perspectives into discussions on neo-Ottomanist nostalgia and analysing the complexity of its transmission routes, the project offers novel insights, challenging existing gender-blind knowledge by addressing female agency in Islamist media. Islamist women’s journals in which an Islamic way of life is dictated through the religious, quotidian, cultural and psychological aspects of being an ideal Muslim woman vary greatly in terms of style, ownership, management, financial resources and target audiences. The project compares how authors and editors of these publications visually and rhetorically mediatise nationalist historical narratives by interlacing them with Islamic nostalgia. Five journals and magazines, namely Aysha, Yeşil Topuklar, Bizim Aile, Nihayet and Kadın ve Aile are selected to represent different sections and communities of Islamist women and their related contents covering the period 2007-2021 are analysed.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Neo-Ottomanism (NO), the aim to revitalize the Ottoman imperial past in contemporary Turkish society, constitutes the ideological basis of the populist authoritarianism of the AKP, the ruling Islamist party in Turkey, since 2007. Thanks to its spread in the cultural field, chiefly in TV series, it has been gaining increasing popularity in Turkey and its diaspora. Considering its nationalist and Islamist roots, claims of authenticity and uses of history and nostalgia, which work to legitimize gender inequalities, and also the gender-blind scholarly approaches to it, this project aims to elucidate the gendered nature of NO and how Islamist women, who mostly support the AKP, become creative agents in its reproduction. The project will examine gendered aspects of neo-Ottomanist nostalgia and their sophisticated transmission in Islamist women’s periodicals in Turkey. Its novel insights will fill the critical lacuna of a gender study of NO and provide a more complex image of “Islamist women”. Its research methodology includes content analysis of articles containing Ottomanist nostalgia for discursive, visual, and paratextual reproductions; and interviews with their authors to reveal their perceptions of and nostalgia with Ottoman past and the process of their active involvement in NO’s popularization. The findings will link with Turkish studies, South-East European studies, and studies of gender, media, and cultural heritage; and reach to feminist groups, journalists, policy makers, teachers of religion and fashion lovers. As a researcher who has worked on the subjects of power and discourse, women and Islam in Turkey, and NO and nostalgia, I have essential knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for the project. It will be a unique career opportunity as it will equip me to take part in collaborative research projects and apply for tenured posts in EU. The supervisor and the hosting research centre offer the best possible interdisciplinary expertise and academic networks.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNКоординаторДания