Projects
Building the Nation State
Building the Nation State In Building the Nation-State, I examine how space and spatial practices mediated Turkey’s transition from empire to nation-state. By juxtaposing the making of new spaces, responding to the demands of a new politico-cultural order, with the obliteration of ethnic and religious enclaves characterizing the Ottoman way of life, I expose the interdependence between the creative and destructive forces in this process. My survey of broad ranging spatial transformations demonstrates how state formation operates at multiple and interdependent scales from that of the individual body to that of regional geopolitics.
Key Publications:
Building the Nation-State: State, Space and Ideology in Early Republican Turkey (University of Pittsburgh Press for the Politics, Culture and the Built Environment Series, forthcoming in 2014)
“Incongruous Cartographies, Discontinuous Histories: An Exploration of Ankara’s Spatial Transformations from Empire to Republic ” in Contested Spaces in Contemporary Turkey edited by Fatma Müge Göçek (London: IB Tauris, forthcoming in 2015)
“An Imaginable Community: The Material Culture of Nation-Building in Early Republican Turkey” in Environment and Planing D: Space and Society (vol 27: 3, 2009)
ARC People: Zeynep Kezer