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[American Research Institute in Turkey] “Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey” by Nathan Young
March 15, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EEST
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Izmir and Ankara, Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey, demonstrates how sentiments for small-scale, rural lifeways continue to shape Turkish identity and national formation. Applying current ideas from nostalgia theory, Nathan Young analyzes the significance of rural nostalgia from the nation’s founding to its present, where it manifests in advertising, media entertainment, and politics. Young contends that the durability of rural nostalgia illustrates and interprets the connection many Turks maintain with their agrarian hometowns despite the rapid influx to urban spaces. Additionally, he claims that such nostalgias reveal essentialized notions of Turkish identity, frameworks of moral-social expectations, and definitions of an idyllic “good life.” Funded by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA and additional grants, ethnographic fieldwork included over hundred, twenty semi-situated interviews at a variety of location in the vicinities of Izmir and Ankara (2018—2019).
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