Nostalgia for the British Era: Poststructuralist Critique of the Modernist Discourse of ‘Civilization’ in the Turkish Cypriot Media

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dc.contributor.advisor İlter, Tuğrul
dc.contributor.author Beyazoğlu, İbrahim
dc.date.accessioned 2019-10-11T08:19:01Z
dc.date.available 2019-10-11T08:19:01Z
dc.date.issued 2016-11
dc.date.submitted 2016
dc.identifier.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. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11129/4168
dc.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. en_US
dc.description.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. en_US
dc.description.abstract 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. en_US
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.publisher Eastern Mediterranean University EMU en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.subject Communication and Media Studies en_US
dc.subject British Rule-Modernist Enlightenment-Turkish Cypriots-Cyprus en_US
dc.subject British Rule-Post-Colonialism-Turkish Cypriots-Civilization en_US
dc.subject Nostalgia en_US
dc.subject Colonialism en_US
dc.subject Post-colonialism en_US
dc.subject Nostalgic Media Constructions en_US
dc.subject Modernist Thought en_US
dc.subject White Mythology en_US
dc.subject the Turkish Cypriots en_US
dc.subject Textuality en_US
dc.title Nostalgia for the British Era: Poststructuralist Critique of the Modernist Discourse of ‘Civilization’ in the Turkish Cypriot Media en_US
dc.type doctoralThesis en_US
dc.contributor.department Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication, Dept. of Communication and Media Studies en_US


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