Space and the emotional topography of populism in Turkey : The case of Hagia Sophia
(2021) In Cogent Social Sciences 7(1).- Abstract
Over the past decade, as ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) initiated Turkey’s authoritarian populist turn, it sought to derive legitimacy through extra-institutional avenues, notably the emotional appeal to the repressed “people”, advancing the party’s socio-political vision, countering the arguments of its political opponents and reaching out to, and inspiring its constituency. Turkey’s urban space, bearing the marks of a century of republicanism, provided fertile ground for the deployment of emotion. This article, drawing on an analysis of the events surrounding the mosque conversion of Hagia Sophia and of the relevant media coverage, as well as on elements of 28 interviews with informants with political sympathies across the... (More)
Over the past decade, as ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) initiated Turkey’s authoritarian populist turn, it sought to derive legitimacy through extra-institutional avenues, notably the emotional appeal to the repressed “people”, advancing the party’s socio-political vision, countering the arguments of its political opponents and reaching out to, and inspiring its constituency. Turkey’s urban space, bearing the marks of a century of republicanism, provided fertile ground for the deployment of emotion. This article, drawing on an analysis of the events surrounding the mosque conversion of Hagia Sophia and of the relevant media coverage, as well as on elements of 28 interviews with informants with political sympathies across the political spectrum, constitutes an attempt to contribute to the broader discussion of the emotional topography of populism in Turkey.
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- Sofos, Spyros A. LU
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- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- emotional topography, Hagia Sophia, populism, spatial politics, Turkey
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- Cogent Social Sciences
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 1982495
- publisher
- Cogent OA
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- scopus:85116417187
- ISSN
- 2331-1886
- DOI
- 10.1080/23311886.2021.1982495
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
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