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Talking back to the west : how Turkey uses counter-hegemony to reshape the global communication order / Bilge Yesil.

By: Yesil, Bilge, 1973- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: The geopolitics of informationPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2024Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780252045899; 9780252087998Subject(s): AK Parti (Turkey) | Communication in politics -- Turkey | Mass media -- Political aspects -- TurkeyAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Talking back to the westDDC classification: 320.956101/4 LOC classification: JA85.2.T9 | Y48 2024
Contents:
Battling against Western Media Imperialism : Domestic Crises and International Communication Initiatives -- Legitimizing Turkey's Communication Model : Encounters with Foreign Media Organizations and Professionals -- Restoring Justice to Muslims : Knowledge Production about Islamophobia and Erdoğan's Missionary Politics -- Discrediting the West : Civilizationist Paradigm and Negative Visions of Europe and the United States -- Promoting Turkish History and Civilization : Television Dramas and Muslim Audiences.
Summary: "In the 2010s, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its authoritarian practices. Bilge Yesil examines the AKP's English-language communication apparatus, focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. She also analyzes the decolonial and pan-Islamist messages AKP-sponsored outlets deploy to position Turkey as a burgeoning great power opposed to imperialism and claiming to be the voice of oppressed Muslims around the world. As the AKP wields this rhetoric to further its geopolitical and economic goals, media outlets pursue their own objectives by obfuscating facts with identity politics, demonizing the West to aggrandize the East and rallying Muslims under Turkey's purportedly benevolent leadership. Insightfully exploring the crossroads of communications and authoritarianism, Talking Back to the West illuminates how the Erdogan government and its media allies use history, religion, and identity to pursue complementary agendas and tighten the AKP's grip on power"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 65 - Reading Room 		H2p YESIL 33424 Not for loan BOOKS-000000027534

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Battling against Western Media Imperialism : Domestic Crises and International Communication Initiatives -- Legitimizing Turkey's Communication Model : Encounters with Foreign Media Organizations and Professionals -- Restoring Justice to Muslims : Knowledge Production about Islamophobia and Erdoğan's Missionary Politics -- Discrediting the West : Civilizationist Paradigm and Negative Visions of Europe and the United States -- Promoting Turkish History and Civilization : Television Dramas and Muslim Audiences.

"In the 2010s, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its authoritarian practices. Bilge Yesil examines the AKP's English-language communication apparatus, focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. She also analyzes the decolonial and pan-Islamist messages AKP-sponsored outlets deploy to position Turkey as a burgeoning great power opposed to imperialism and claiming to be the voice of oppressed Muslims around the world. As the AKP wields this rhetoric to further its geopolitical and economic goals, media outlets pursue their own objectives by obfuscating facts with identity politics, demonizing the West to aggrandize the East and rallying Muslims under Turkey's purportedly benevolent leadership. Insightfully exploring the crossroads of communications and authoritarianism, Talking Back to the West illuminates how the Erdogan government and its media allies use history, religion, and identity to pursue complementary agendas and tighten the AKP's grip on power"-- Provided by publisher.