Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey

Nagehan Tokdoğan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development’s Center for the History of Emotions. Her research focuses on the political sociology of emotions, nationalism, conservatism and authoritarianism in Turkey, as well as right-wing extremism, gender studies, and men and masculinities.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.  On Emotions, Politics and Political Symbols.- Chapter 3. Neo-Ottomanism as an Alternative Narrative of National Identity.- Chapter 4. From Victimization to Omnipotence: The Pathos of Erdoğan as a Constituent Symbol of the Neo-Ottomanist Narrative.- Chapter 5. Istanbul as the Symbolic Space of the Neo-Ottomanist Narrative: Nostalgia, Romanticism and Domestic Imperial Greed.- Chapter 6. Sites of an Islamic desire for homecoming: the Hagia Sophia and Çamlıca Mosque.- Chapter 7.  Towards the Construction of a Neo-Ottomanist Myth: The “Legend” of 15 July and National Narcissism.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.