What Heritage Tells Us About the Turkish State and Turkish Society

Girard, M

doi:10.4000/ejts.5227

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“…Indeed, it is notable that the reconstructed Barracks building could call to view Ottoman military power while housing a shopping mall, and not the modern secular military whose political power the JDP has consistently attempted to suppress. Nostalgia for the Ottoman era also offers a means of justifying foreign policy and social control at home, for example through reference to the regional primacy of the Ottomans and inaccurate constructions of Ottoman 'multiculturalism' (Girard 2015;Mills 2011) reliant on a malleable Ottoman legacy (Carney 2014). In this sense it can also power moralizing, anti-hedonistic discourse opposing alcohol consumption, the exercise of sexual freedoms, liberal codes of dress and body adornment, abortion, and so on, associated by the JDP with the undesirable aspects of a non-indigenous western modernity (Yeğenoğlu 2013;White 2014).…”

Section: Taksim: a History Of Erasure And Contestmentioning

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Protest, Bodies, and the Grounds of Memory: Taksim Square as ‘heritage site’ and the 2013 Gezi Protests

Whitehead

Bozoğlu

2016

Heritage & Society

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Section: Taksim: a History Of Erasure And Contestmentioning

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Protest, Bodies, and the Grounds of Memory: Taksim Square as ‘heritage site’ and the 2013 Gezi Protests

Whitehead

Bozoğlu

2016

Heritage & Society

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Heritage, Education and Social Justice

Apaydin

2022

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This research examines how museums and heritage sites can embrace a social justice approach to tackle inequalities and how they can empower disadvantaged groups to take an equal benefit from cultural resources. This Element argues that heritage institutions can use their collections of material culture more effectively to respond to social issues, and examines how they can promote equal access to resources for all people, regardless of their backgrounds. This research examines heritage and museum practices, ranging from critical and democratic approaches to authoritarian practices to expose the pitfalls and potentials therein. By analysing case studies, examining institutions' current efforts and suggesting opportunities for further development with regard to social justice, this Element argues that heritage sites and museums have great potential to tackle social issues and to create a platform for the equal redistribution of cultural resources, the recognition of diversities and the representation of diverse voices.

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