CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Basyigit, Veli |
|---|---|
| Title | Tibrevank and the Radical Left in Turkey: Challenging the Hegemony of the Nation-State? |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on an Armenian boarding school and its alumni association in Istanbul that became a hub for socialist politics for the Armenian society in Turkey in the 1970s. Following the story of Surp Hac Tibrevank Armenian High School, I analyse the links between Armenian society in post-genocide Turkey and the ways in which socialist politics relate to non-Muslim minorities, given that the exclusion of non-Muslims from the imaginary of Turkishness has been one of the pillars of Turkish nation-state formation. The problem addressed in this thesis is threefold: First, I address the emergence of socialist tendencies at Tibrevank which enabled the formation of an intellectual current challenging the historical narrative of the Turkish nation-state. Second, I conceptualize the hegemonic position of the Turkish state to impose its historical narrative and the struggle of socialist movements to construct a counter-hegemony to subvert it. Lastly, I elaborate on the concept of history which I conceive as an instrument of struggle in the sense that it equips us with images of past experiences which we can mobilize to understand our present conditions. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Donmez, Pinar Emine |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/basyigit_veli.pdf |
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