Humanism in ruins : entangled legacies of the Greek-Turkish population exchange /

The 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange forcibly relocated one and a half million people: Muslims in Greece were resettled in Turkey, and Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey were moved to Greece. This landmark event set a legal precedent for population management on the basis of religious or ethn...

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Main Author: Iğsız, Aslı, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • By way of an introduction : the entangled legacies of a population exchange
  • part I. Humanism and its discontents : biopolitics, politics of expertise, and the human family. Segregative biopolitics and the production of knowledge
  • Liberal humanism, race, and the family of mankind
  • part II. Of origins and "men" : family history, genealogy, and historicist humanism revisited. Heritage and family history
  • Origins, biopolitics, and historicist humanism
  • part III. Unity in diversity : culture, social cohesion, and liberal multiculturalism. Museumization of culture and alterity recognition
  • Turkish-Islamic synthesis and coexistence after the 1980 military coup
  • In lieu of a conclusion : cultural analysis in an age of securitarianism.