Becoming Blind to the Landscape: Turkification and the Precarious National Future in Occupied Istanbul

This article analyzes the making of particular political topics as yasak (taboo or forbidden). It argues for understanding the yasak not as a product of state censorship, but as a local, urban cultural process, and is based on a study of representations of urban culture and politics in a humor gazet...

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Veröffentlicht in:Transition. - Indiana University Press, 1957. - 5(2018), 2, Seite 99-117
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Veröffentlicht: 2018
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Schlagworte:Political science Law Behavioral sciences Social sciences
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