Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World

Muriel Girard is Associate Professor of Social and Human Sciences, Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille, Laboratoire INAMA, Marseille, France, and member of INAMA research laboratory (ENSA-M).Jean-François Polo, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Rennes, France, and member of ARENES (CNRS). Clémence Scalbert Yücel is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Arab and İslamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, where she teaches Ethnopolitics and Kurdish Studies.

• Introduction: Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World—Circulations, Territories, and Actors.- Part I - The Kemalist Legacy.- Circulation of Humanism and Classicism During the Second World War in Turkey: The Case of the Painters’ Homeland Tours (1938–1946).- Post-Ottoman Heritage(s), “Kemalist” Tourism and Cultural Policies in the Balkans.- Part II - Cultural Policy Under the AKP’s Leadership.- Turkish Cultural Policy: In Search of a New Model?.- Converted Spaces, Converted Meanings: Looking at New Cultural Spaces in Istanbul through a Cultural Policy Lens.- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Art and Vocational Training Courses: A Matrix for Reviving Arts and Handicrafts, Constructing Local Values, and Reworking National Culture.- “Cultural Action” as Mode of Domination: IslamicBusinessmen’s International Trade Fair and Configurations of Turkey’s Cultural Model.- Part III- Territorial Cultural Policies; The Dream of a Village: The Yeşil Yayla Festival and the Making of a World of Culture in the Town of Arhavi.- Tradition Makers. The Recognition Process of a Local Dance: From the Village to the Institutions.- World Heritage Manufacture in Turkey and the Introduction of a New Public Policy System.