Week 1: Center and periphery
Shils, Edward. “Center and Periphery.” In The Logic of Personal Knowledge: EssaysPresented to Michael Polanyi on His Seventieth Birthday, 11 March 1961, 117–30. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1961. [Digital copy available] [13]
Hourani, Albert. “Ottoman Reform and the Politics of Notables.” In The Emergence of the Modern Middle East, 36–66. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981 [first published 1968]. [Digital copy available] [30].
Mardin, ?erif. “Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics?” Daedalus 102, no. 1 (1973): 169–90. [21]
Week 2: The classic modernization approach
Lewis, Bernard. The Emergence of Modern Turkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. [Purchase from Akademika or borrow from the library] [Pages 21-294] [273]
Week 3: The state and the non-state (I)
Barkey, Karen. “Rebellious Alliances: The State and Peasant Unrest in Early Seventeenth-Century France and the Ottoman Empire.” American Sociological Review 56, no. 6 (1991): 699–715. [16]
Salzmann, Ariel. “An Ancien Régime Revisited: ‘Privatization’ and Political Economy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” Politics and Society 4, no. 21 (1993): 393–423. [30]
Week 4: The state and the non-state (II)
Mitchell, Timothy. “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics.” The American Political Science Review 85, no. 1 (1991): 77–96. [19]
Navaro-Yashin, Yael. “Uses and Abuses of State and Civil Society in Contemporary Turkey.” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 18 (1998): 1–22.
Week 5: The modernization approach and Kemalism
Lerner, Daniel. The Passing of Traditional Society. [pp. 22-75; digital copy available, or borrow from the library] [53]
Migdal, Joel. “Individual Change in the Midst of Social and Political Change”, The Social Science Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, 125-139, 1988. [14]
Gellner, Ernst. “Kemalism.” In Encounters with Nationalism, 81–91. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. [Digital copy available] [10]
Week 6: Questioning the empire-nation dichotomy
Meeker, Michael. Nation of Empire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. [Purchase] [Preface, xi-xxiii, Chapters 1, 2, 3 (3-109), 6 (185-226) 9, 10 (285-341), total 215 pages.]
Week 7: Critical approaches to Islam and Kemalist secularism
Keddie, Nikki R. “Symbol and Sincerity in Islam.” Studia Islamica 19 (1963): 27–63. [36]
Wedeen, Lisa. “Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science.” The American Political Science Review 96, no. 4 (2002): 713–28. [15]
Kad?o?lu, A. “Republican Epistemology and Islamic Discourses in Turkey in the 1990s.”The Muslim World 88, no. 1 (1998): 1–21. [20]
Week 8: Kurdish activism and the Turkish state
Watts, Nicole. Activists in Office. Seattle: Washington University Press, 2010. [Purchase] [172]
Week 9: Law and its exceptions
?ktem, Kerem. “Return of the Turkish ‘State of Exception.’” Middle East Report Online, June 3, 2006. [8]
Neuman, Gerald L. “Anomalous Zones.” Stanford Law Review 48, no. 1197 (1996): 1201–34. [32]
Tezcür, Güne? Murat. “Judicial Activism in Perilous Times: The Turkish Case.” Law & Society Review 43, no. 2 (2009): 305–36. [31]
[Total pages: 1030]