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Title: | Nostalgia for the British Era: Poststructuralist Critique of the Modernist Discourse of ‘Civilization’ in the Turkish Cypriot Media |
Authors: | İlter, Tuğrul Beyazoğlu, İbrahim Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication, Dept. of Communication and Media Studies |
Keywords: | Communication and Media Studies British Rule-Modernist Enlightenment-Turkish Cypriots-Cyprus British Rule-Post-Colonialism-Turkish Cypriots-Civilization Nostalgia Colonialism Post-colonialism Nostalgic Media Constructions Modernist Thought White Mythology the Turkish Cypriots Textuality |
Issue Date: | Nov-2016 |
Publisher: | Eastern Mediterranean University EMU |
Citation: | Beyazoğlu, İbrahim. (2016). Nostalgia for the British Era: Poststructuralist Critique of the Modernist Discourse of ‘Civilization’ in the Turkish Cypriot Media .Thesis (Ph.D.), Eastern Mediterranean University, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Dept. of Communication and Media Studies, Famagusta: North Cyprus. |
Abstract: | This study opens up a vista onto the notion popular among a growing number of
Turkish Cypriots that the British colonial period brought modernist enlightenment to
Turkish Cypriots. Turkish Cypriots were subject to heavy Turkish immigration from
1974 onwards as well as Turkish authorities mandating Turkish nationalism over the
native politics and value system. In response, Turkish Cypriots have harkened back
nostalgically to the British inheritance in their search for the universal standards of a
“metahistoric” civilization. In doing so, Turkish Cypriots constructed a nostalgic
nationalist movement called Cypriotism, an “identity of difference” that stands in
binary opposition to the so-called “backward” immigrants to the island from Turkey,
and to Turkish nationalism. Using postcolonial theory, this study critically analyses
the media constructions of nostalgic nationalism in local Turkish-Cypriot media in
the light of historic landmarks and milestones.
Keywords: Nostalgia, Colonialism, Post-colonialism, Nostalgia, Nostalgic Media
Constructions, Modernist Thought, White Mythology, the Turkish Cypriots,
Textuality. ÖZ:
Bu çalışma, giderek artan sayıda Kıbrıslı Türk arasında popülerlik kazanan İngiliz
sömürge döneminin Kıbrıslı Türklere aydınlanma getirdiğini varsayan modernist
metinsel dokuma üzerine kavramsal ve analitik bir pencere açar. 1974 sonrası
deneyimlenen Türkiyeli göçmenlerle yaşanan iletişim sıkıntıları ve adanın yerlileri
ve değer sistemleri ile etkileşime geçen “buyurgan” Türk milliyetçiliği söylemleri, bu
durumdan rahatsız birçok Kıbrıslı Türk’ün “tarihötesi” olduğu düşünülen İngiliz
sömürge uygarlığı ve mirasının evrensel standartlarına nostaljik bir “geri dönüş”
yapmasına yol açtı. Bu minvalde, geniş bir politik ve kültürel yelpazeye yayılan
Kıbrıslı Türk Kıbrıslılık adlı nostaljik milliyetçi bir yapıyı, “bir ayırıcı hüviyeti” inşa
edip söz konusu kimliği Türkiye’den gelip adaya yerleşen göçmenlere ve Türk
milliyetçi söylemine karşı ikili zıtlık zemininde konuşlandırdı. Postkolonyal teoriyi
kullanan bu tez sömürge-sonrası Kıbrıs Türk medyasının nostaljik milliyetçilik
kurgularını, tarihi dönüm noktalarını ve kilometre taşlarını da gözden kaçırmadan,
eleştirel bir incelemeye tabi tutar.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Nostalji, Sömürge, Sömürge-Sonrası, Nostaljik Medya
Kurguları, Modernist Düşünce, Beyaz Mitoloji, Kıbrıslı Türkler, Metinsellik. |
Description: | Doctor of Philosophy in Communication and Media Studies. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication, Dept. of Communication and Media Studies, 2016. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuğrul İlter. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11129/4168 |
Appears in Collections: | Theses (Master's and Ph.D) – Communication and Media Studies
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