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

dc.contributor.advisorİlter, Tuğrul
dc.contributor.authorBeyazoğlu, İbrahim
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-11T08:19:01Z
dc.date.available2019-10-11T08:19:01Z
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.date.submitted2016
dc.departmentEastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication, Dept. of Communication and Media Studiesen_US
dc.descriptionDoctor 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.abstractThis 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.abstractÖZ: 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.identifier.citationBeyazoğlu, 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.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11129/4168
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEastern Mediterranean University EMUen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryTez
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectCommunication and Media Studiesen_US
dc.subjectBritish Rule-Modernist Enlightenment-Turkish Cypriots-Cyprusen_US
dc.subjectBritish Rule-Post-Colonialism-Turkish Cypriots-Civilizationen_US
dc.subjectNostalgiaen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectPost-colonialismen_US
dc.subjectNostalgic Media Constructionsen_US
dc.subjectModernist Thoughten_US
dc.subjectWhite Mythologyen_US
dc.subjectthe Turkish Cypriotsen_US
dc.subjectTextualityen_US
dc.titleNostalgia for the British Era: Poststructuralist Critique of the Modernist Discourse of ‘Civilization’ in the Turkish Cypriot Mediaen_US
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis

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