Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’
This article addresses population politics in the broader Young Turk era (1913-1950), which included genocide, deportation, and forced assimilation of various minority populations. The article opens with an account of the genesis of the concept ‘social engineering’ and provides a synopsis of the lit...
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Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient
2015-03-01
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| description | This article addresses population politics in the broader Young Turk era (1913-1950), which included genocide, deportation, and forced assimilation of various minority populations. The article opens with an account of the genesis of the concept ‘social engineering’ and provides a synopsis of the literature in the field of Young Turk population politics. It then focuses on the implementation of these nationalist population politics in the eastern provinces to exemplify these policies in detail. The article aims to clarify that the Armenian genocide cannot be understood in isolation from broader Young Turk population politics and argues that a generation of traumatized Young Turk politicians launched and perpetuated this violent project of societal transformation in order to secure the existence of a Turkish nation-state. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e67bade9df644af0aba16b426ecbde242025-08-20T01:55:12ZengAssociation pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-OrientEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies1773-05462015-03-01710.4000/ejts.2583Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’Uğur Ümit ÜngörThis article addresses population politics in the broader Young Turk era (1913-1950), which included genocide, deportation, and forced assimilation of various minority populations. The article opens with an account of the genesis of the concept ‘social engineering’ and provides a synopsis of the literature in the field of Young Turk population politics. It then focuses on the implementation of these nationalist population politics in the eastern provinces to exemplify these policies in detail. The article aims to clarify that the Armenian genocide cannot be understood in isolation from broader Young Turk population politics and argues that a generation of traumatized Young Turk politicians launched and perpetuated this violent project of societal transformation in order to secure the existence of a Turkish nation-state.https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/2583Young Turksnationalismsocial engineeringmass violenceEastern Turkey |
| spellingShingle | Uğur Ümit Üngör Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’ European Journal of Turkish Studies Young Turks nationalism social engineering mass violence Eastern Turkey |
| title | Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’ |
| title_full | Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’ |
| title_fullStr | Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’ |
| title_full_unstemmed | Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’ |
| title_short | Geographies of Nationalism and Violence: Rethinking Young Turk ‘Social Engineering’ |
| title_sort | geographies of nationalism and violence rethinking young turk social engineering |
| topic | Young Turks nationalism social engineering mass violence Eastern Turkey |
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