Neyzi L. (2001). Object or subject : the paradox of "youth" in Turkey. In :
Collignon R. (ed.), Diouf M. (ed.). Les jeunes : hantise de l'espace public dans les sociétés du Sud ?. Autrepart, 18, 101-117. ISSN 1278-3986.
Titre du document
Object or subject : the paradox of "youth" in Turkey
Année de publication
2001
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Neyzi L.
In
Collignon R. (ed.), Diouf M. (ed.) Les jeunes : hantise de l'espace public dans les sociétés du Sud ?
Source
Autrepart, 2001,
18, 101-117 ISSN 1278-3986
This article analyses the construction of youth in public discourse in Turkey since the establishment of the Turkish Republic. I show that in the 1923-1950 period, youth came to embody the new Turkish nation. In the 1950-1980 period, on the other hand, youth were reconstructed in public discourse as rebels. Despite the change in discourse, however, educated young people in these two periods largely identified with the mission of transforming society from above. The post-1980 period, on the other hand, marked a break with modernist constructions of youth, just as it constituted a break with Turkish political culture as a whole. The Turkish case suggests that studies of youth in non-Western experiences of modernity can benefit from an approach which contextualizes youth within the wider frame of age, life cycle and generation.
Plan de classement
Education [106EDUC]
;
Vie politique [114VIPOL]
Descripteurs
JEUNESSE ; EDUCATION ; GROUPE D'AGE ; SYSTEME DE REPRESENTATIONS ; ISLAMISATION ; NATIONALISME ; IDEOLOGIE POLITIQUE ; IDENTITE CULTURELLE ; MODERNITE ; GENERATION ; HISTOIRE POLITIQUE
