Academic Catalog

ADM4164 IDEOLOGICAL DISCOURSES IN TURKEY

Course Code:	3104164
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	6.0
Department:	Political Science And Public Adm.
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:	Prof.Dr. MUSTAFA KEMAL BAYIRBAÐ
Offered Semester:	Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course maps the ideological discourses in modern Turkey with special emphasis on their representations of capitalist modernity, state and the `people`. It will mainly provide a discourse analysis on the political and cultural writings of a number of major intellectual figures from different ideological perspectives. Tracing the intellectual legacy of ideological discourses including Kemalism, nationalism, socialism, conservatism, Islamism and liberalism. The intertextual relations between those discourses and their role in the constellation of social and political forces will also be examined.