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Looking Back: Armenian Emigrants, Nationalism and Modern Turkey(Contemporary Turkey)

Looking Back: Armenian Emigrants, Nationalism and Modern Turkey(Contemporary Turkey)


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Looking Back is a compelling account of how Armenians, as migrants in Canada, remember their past lives in Turkey and make sense of their experiences in two very different landscapes. Anchored in the workings of the Turkish nation, theirs are stories about loss, denial, trauma, and discrimination on the one hand, resilience, survival, and community on the other. Bayar's in-depth examination tackles questions about memory, citizenship, and being a minority inside a nationalist landscape while revealing rich and multilayered accounts of everyday encounters with institutions, friends, and strangers. Looking Back is a timely study about the costs of nation-building and the ways minorities navigate an exclusionary landscape.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Talking about the Violent Past State Violence and Imagining the Nation 1915: “The Heavy Sound of Silence” and Remembering Weaving the Past with the Present Chapter 2: Encounters with the State The Myriad Ways of Pursuing Turkification: The State's Lens Experiencing and Making Sense of “Hot Nationalism” Serving the Nation: Military Service, Citizenship and Being a Minority Further Encounters with the State and “Nation Talk” Chapter 3: Education, Nationalist Politics, and Minority Lives (Re)Designing the Educational Domain: The State's Lens Life Chances and Managing Institutional Hurdles Biography, History, and Unearthing the Past Sociability and Discrimination: Interactions with Friends and Teachers Chapter 4: Remembering Places, and People Remembering Places: Life in Istanbul Remembering Summers on the Princes' Islands Interactions Across the Ethnoreligious Divide Chapter 5: Encounters with Strangers Speaking Turkish and Regulating Surnames: The State's Lens Speaking Turkish at the “Right Places” and the “Right Way” “Living with One's Name”: Strategies and Practices in Everyday Interactions Conclusion References Index

About the Author :
Yesim Bayar is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, New York. She is the author of Formation of the Turkish Nation-State (1920-1938).

Review :
This is an excellent study of how minoritized populations like the Armenians who have had genocidal violence in their past negotiate two diasporas, a diaspora in modern Turkey where they become minoritized through state and societal violence on their own ancestral lands, and a diaspora in contemporary Canada where they join a multitude of immigrant populations. This brilliant, beautifully written investigation of the experiences of Armenians moving to Canada is a treasure trove-rich life histories recounting 20th-century Turkish history, and a superlative meditation on the perils and promises of nationalism. A very great achievement, deserving praise and readers.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780755654680
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: I.B. Tauris
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Contemporary Turkey
  • ISBN-10: 0755654684
  • Publisher Date: 22 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: Armenian Emigrants, Nationalism and Modern Turkey


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