A01=Spyros A. Sofos
Author_Spyros A. Sofos
Authoritarianism
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Citizenship
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Human Rights
Middle Eastern Politics
Mobilisation
Populism
Social Movements
Turkey
Turkish Politics
Tutelary Politics
Product details
- ISBN 9781399502856
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book enhances our understanding of 'the popular' in the study of politics through a critical examination of the uses and constructions of 'the people', from the establishment of the Turkish Republic to the present. It proposes ways of reading the insertion and operationalisation of the notion of 'the people' as a concept, a political subject, the object of policy and politics over the past century. The author assesses the ways 'the people' have been shaped by the history of the republic and how in turn they have informed ways of visualising society, the country's political culture and institutional architecture, and framed the parameters and repertoires of political action.
Spyros A. Sofos is a political scientist based at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science and is founder and lead editor of openDemocracy’s #rethinkingpopulism. He has a PhD in Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies from the University of Copenhagen and has previously worked as a Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) of Lund University, Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Kingston University and Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Politics at Portsmouth University. His other books include Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (1996, Routledge), Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (2008, Hurst and Oxford University Press), Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (2013, Palgrave). He was also co-editor of the ‘Islam and Nationalism’ Palgrave Macmillan book series (2013-18).
