The power of the people : everyday resistance and dissent in the making of modern Turkey, 1923-38 /
Metinsoy, Murat,
The power of the people : everyday resistance and dissent in the making of modern Turkey, 1923-38 / Murat Metinsoy. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : toward an infrahistory of republican Turkey -- The price of the republic for the peasants -- Raising voice and rural discontent -- Resisting the agricultural taxes -- Social smuggling : resistance to the monopolies -- Theft, violence and banditry -- The price of the republic for the working class -- Labor discontent -- Survival struggles and everyday resistance -- Violence, protests and walkouts -- The hotbeds of opposition to anti-secularism : mosques, coffehouses and homes -- Informal media vs. official discourse : word of mouth, rumors and placaords -- Neither fez, nor hat : contesting the hat reform -- Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns -- Old habits die hard : tenacity of old lifestyles in new times -- Epilogue : infrastructure of Turkey's modernization.
9781316515464
2021024962
Kemalism.
Poor--Political activity--History--Turkey--20th century.
Government, Resistance to--History--Turkey--20th century.
Social change--History--Turkey--20th century.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.
DR590 / .M483 2021
956.1/024
The power of the people : everyday resistance and dissent in the making of modern Turkey, 1923-38 / Murat Metinsoy. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : toward an infrahistory of republican Turkey -- The price of the republic for the peasants -- Raising voice and rural discontent -- Resisting the agricultural taxes -- Social smuggling : resistance to the monopolies -- Theft, violence and banditry -- The price of the republic for the working class -- Labor discontent -- Survival struggles and everyday resistance -- Violence, protests and walkouts -- The hotbeds of opposition to anti-secularism : mosques, coffehouses and homes -- Informal media vs. official discourse : word of mouth, rumors and placaords -- Neither fez, nor hat : contesting the hat reform -- Negotiating anti-veiling campaigns -- Old habits die hard : tenacity of old lifestyles in new times -- Epilogue : infrastructure of Turkey's modernization.
9781316515464
2021024962
Kemalism.
Poor--Political activity--History--Turkey--20th century.
Government, Resistance to--History--Turkey--20th century.
Social change--History--Turkey--20th century.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.
DR590 / .M483 2021
956.1/024