Author: Kaya Genç File Type: pdf Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East--caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkeys political divide Gezi park protestors who fought tear gas and batons to transform their countrys future, and supporters of Erdogans conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism. He talks to artists and authors to ask whether the New Turkey is a good place to for them to live and work. He interviews censored journalists and conservative writers both angered by what has been going on in their country.He meets Turkeys Wall Street types who take to the streets despite the enormity of what they can lose as well as the young Islamic entrepreneurs who drive Turkeys economy.While talking to Turkeys angry young people Genc weaves in historical stories, visions and mythologies, showing how Turkeys progressives and conservatives take their ideological roots from two political movements born in the Ottoman Empire the Young Turks and the Young Ottomans, two groups of intellectuals who were united in their determination to make their country more democratic. He shows a divided society coming to terms with the 21st Century, and in doing so, gets to the heart of the compelling conflicts between history and modernity in the Middle East.**ReviewTurkish journalist Genc profiles young Turkish activists organizing on his countrys frontlines in this fascinating and informative compilation that represents both investigative and literary journalism at their finest.(Publishers Weekly 2016-10-07) ...refreshingly balancedMr. Genc is a subtle guide to the wrenching changes Turkey is undergoing, and his personal testimony is rich in historical and cultural detail. More of his insights would have been welcome he has announced himself here as a voice to be listened to as Turkey struggles to come to terms with itself.(The Economist 2016-11-14) Illuminating Genc cleverly and patiently interviews participants on both sides of the protests to build a fuller picture of todays Turkish youth Genc brings an important perspective to a tumultuous period in national and international politics.(Greg Cullison, L.A. Review of Books, 2016-12-11) Genc brings some historical knowledge to bear on the present dayencompassing so broad a spectrum is certainly a good idea Genc should be applauded for his polyphonic portrait(William Armstrong, Times Literary Supplement 2016-12-23) There have been numerous books of analysis published about contemporary Turkey, but few come close to Kaya Gencs Under the Shadow Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey for sheer humanism and breadth of perspective. (Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice 2017-04-28) About the Author Kaya Genc is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul whose writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Salon, Guernica Magazine, Sight & Sound, The Millions, The White Review and TIME Magazine, among others. His first novel, LAvventura was published in 2008. Kaya has a PhD in English literature and is the Istanbul correspondent of The Believer and The LA Review of Books as well as a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. His article for The LA Review of Books Surviving the Black Sea was selected as one of best non-fiction pieces of 2014 by The Atlantic. Currently writing a history of Turkish literature for Harvard University Press, and due to publish his first English novel later next year, he is one of Turkeys most hotly-anticipated young writers.

Author: Remco E. Breuker File Type: pdf This book offers no less than a radically different view of the Kory state. Until now scholarship failed to recognize the complicated historical descent, byzantine international relations and multiple incommensurable worldviews of the early Korean Kory state (918-1170). Instead, it subjected these to reductionist categories favouring reified particulars over broader views. Asking how Kory meaningfully dealt with its environment, Remco Breuker rejects the reduction of Kory intellectual abundance to analytical categories, and emphasizes the functional importance of Kory s pluralism in allowing the notion that realities were scattered, inconsistent and plural. Here is a convincing argument that Kory s pluralism decisively contributed to the formation of a region-transcending communal identity that enabled Kory to engage in a civilizational competition with neighbouring Chinese and Manchurian states, while maintaining a dynamic but stable society domestically.