Memory, Patriarchy and Economy in Turkey

Meral Uğur-Çınar is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her PhD in Political Science from University of Pennsylvania. She was a Mellon Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research before coming to Bilkent. She has been selected as National Center for Institutional Diversity Exemplary Diversity Scholar by University of Michigan and Distinguished Young Scientist by the Science Academy, Turkey. She is also the recipient of the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award. Her research interests include political narratives, political institutions, political regimes, collective memory, social movements, and gender. She is the author of the book titled Collective Memory and National Membership: Identity and Citizenship Models in Turkey and Austria (Palgrave). A chapter (coauthored with Rogers Smith) can be found in Political Peoplehood: The Roles of Values, Interests and Identities (Chicago University Press). Her articles appeared in PS: Political Science & Politics; Political Studies; Political Quarterly; Democratization; Politics & Gender; Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society; Gender, Work, and Organization; Middle Eastern Studies; Mediterranean Politics; British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Turkish Studies; Memory Studies; Social Indicators Research; and Politics, Religion & Ideology. She is also the in-coming co-editor of Gender, Place, and Culture.

Meral Uğur-Çınar is a leader among the political scientists exploring how narratives are central to struggles for power and to governance. Here she brilliantly illuminates the crucial roles that competing narratives play in issues of national identity, economic justice and gender hierarchies, in Turkey and much of the modern world.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements 1 Introduction: Narratives and Politics2 Two Tales of a Nation: Ulus as a Site of Competing Historical Narratives3 Can Money Buy Freedom? Narratives of Economic Development and Democracy in Turkey4 The Populist Repertoire: Stories of Development, Patriarchy and History in Austria, Hungary and Turkey5 Narratives, Power and Resistance: Gezi as a Counter-narrative6 Political Narratives and Political Regimes in Global Perspective 7 Conclusion: Narratives of Memory, Patriarchy and Economy in Turkey and BeyondBibliographyIndex