Turkish Desecularisation and Reimagining the Warrior at Çanakkale (Gallipoli): A Social Performance Analysis of the 57th Regiment Re-Enactment March

dc.authorscopusid57194047290
dc.authorscopusid22950015600
dc.contributor.authorWest, B.
dc.contributor.authorAktar, A.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:16:47Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:16:47Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines the 57th Regiment re-enactment march at the First World War Çanakkale (known in the West as Gallipoli) battlefield to comprehend how Turkey’s secular militaristic conception of national identity is being reimagined in relation to desecularisation. While a variety of studies have highlighted how the Battle of Çanakkale is now being used to romanticise and naturalise connections between religion, the Ottoman Empire and Turkish national identity, there is little knowledge of how ordinary Turks engage with the battlefield. Employing social performance methods, it was found the motivations and experiences of the rite differed from the intended political purposes of the organisers, with a major attraction and source of meaning being the way the re-enactment allowed for heightened emotional engagements with the past, including through established Republican historical narratives. However, it is argued that the rite furthers desecularisation by associating the social and political movement with compelling ritual experiences, heightening Islamic sensibilities through an alternative heroic focus on ordinary Turkish soldiers and facilitating dialogical connections between traditional republican and new Islamist narrative conceptions of Turkish national identity. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-981-16-5588-3_5
dc.identifier.endpage92en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9789811655883
dc.identifier.isbn9789811655876
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85159471599en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage75en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5588-3_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6266
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofMilitarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrioren_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKitap Bölümü - Uluslararasıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.titleTurkish Desecularisation and Reimagining the Warrior at Çanakkale (Gallipoli): A Social Performance Analysis of the 57th Regiment Re-Enactment Marchen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US

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