1/27/2024 0 Comments Yale atlastiCalling the two-million strong crowd the “grandchildren of Mehmed the Conqueror,” he promised to make Turkey one of the ten biggest economies in the world. I also hold an MA degree in Comparative Studies in History and Society from Koç University.Ī month before the 2016 coup attempt, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed his helicopter on “the biggest open air stage in Turkey” to celebrate the 563 rd year of the conquest of Constantinople. I am from Turkey and graduated from Boğaziçi University’s sociology department. My research has been funded by the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and the Badzin Fellowship. My work has appeared in American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Sociological Forum, and New Perspectives on Turkey. Even though memory travels transnationally, the nation-state still is the most powerful translator of this past. My coauthored article-born from this research-makes an intervention to cosmopolitanization and collective memory literatures, claiming, the national legitimation is bolstered by the universal frameworks that Holocaust memory provides. During my graduate career, I have worked with the Holocaust and Genocide Center as a Badzin fellow examining Holocaust Remembrance Days in Turkey and Spain. Now, with Patricia Lorcin, and MJ Maynes I run the Interdisciplinary Nostalgia Workshop, and the affiliated blog “Theorizing Nostalgia”. I think that across the diversity of historical nostalgias, what ties nostalgia together as a social force is its strong emotional component, which helped form the post-Westphalian world order. Using ethnography and interviews, my dissertation brings together state-led efforts and popular culture while investigating the response of a diverse array of non-elite Turkish citizens.Īs an Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Center for Early Modern History I worked with historians to theorize the transcultural trajectory of nostalgia. My dissertation, Disentangling Contemporary Ottoman Nostalgia in Turkey: Popular and Political Forms of Collective Memory, examines the contemporary Ottoman revival. I strongly believe that not all nostalgia is created equal, and that we need to deconstruct each case to understand “what it is made of,” and “how it works.” Specifically, I study nostalgia as a collective force, highlighting its central place within both populist political discourse and popular culture. My research interests are comparative-historical sociology, political sociology, cognitive and emotional sociology, cultural sociology, qualitative methods and collective memory with a regional focus on Turkey. I received my PhD from the University of Minnesota Sociology Department. Yagmur Karakaya, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College.
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