Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
A Critical History
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:24th Oct '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£91.00(9780252045257)
De-Westernizing the communications history of Turkey and its imperial predecessor
The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communications and how it affected production and practice for oppressed populations like women, the working class, and ethnic and religious minorities. Moving from the mid-nineteenth century through today, Çelik places networks within the changing geopolitical landscape and the evolution of modern capitalism in relationship to struggles involving a range of social and political actors. Throughout, she challenges Anglo- and Eurocentric assumptions that see the non-West as an ahistorical imitation of, or aberration from, the development of Western communications.
Ambitious and comprehensive, Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire merges political economy with social history to challenge Western-centered assumptions about the origins and development of modern communications.
“Burçe Çelik’s book is a superbly documented contribution to the geopolitics of information. For all those interested in a non-Western perspective on global communication, it is an absolute must read.”--Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam
ISBN: 9780252087394
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 313g
272 pages