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Volume 48 - November 2020

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Page 5 of 6

Film Review

Article

  • The Politics of Emotions and Spectacles: The Case of the Turkish Language Olympiads

  • Senem Aslan
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 October 2019, pp. 388-403

  • This article examines the Turkish Language Olympiads as a political-performative strategy that the Muslim nationalists used to communicate their ideology. I argue that to understand the rise of Muslim nationalism, we also need to understand how emotional appeal is created through spectacles like the Turkish Olympiads. The spectacle was effective in boosting people’s sense of national pride and self-confidence by resolving two important tensions of Kemalist nationalism. First, it addressed the tension between Westernization and nationalization. Depicting an image of Turkish national culture that is appreciated and imitated by foreigners, it contested the imitative, Westernist character of Kemalist nationalism. Second, recasting the outside world as friendly to Turks, even Turkophile, it challenged Kemalist nationalism’s emphasis on external threats. Turkish-speaking and -acting foreigners communicated a message of nationalist self-empowerment and confidence, calling into question people’s sense of fear and distrust of the outside world. How Muslim nationalism was promoted, particularly the performative-symbolic strategies that were used, are important to understand because of their emotional resonance and potential for mass mobilization.

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Back Cover (OBC, IBC) and matter

  • NPS volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter

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    10 September 2020, pp. b1-b4
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  • NPS volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Back matter

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    29 October 2020, pp. b1-b2
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  • NPS volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    15 July 2020, pp. f1-f4
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  • NPS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    12 August 2020, pp. f1-f4
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  • NPS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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    12 August 2020, pp. b1-b3
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    15 July 2020, pp. b1-b4
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