TY - JOUR
T1 - Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad
T2 - Three varieties of Kemalist urbanism
AU - Houston, Christopher
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Kemalism has been the guiding and justifying ideology of the Turkish Republic since its institution in 1923. That Kemalism is exclusive to Turkey is a mainstay of Kemalist self-perception. But was (or is) Kemalism as political practice pursued by other regimes in the region? This paper argues that Kemalism should also be understood as a project of urbanism, and that urban interventions into Ankara, Tehran and Baghdad in the 20th century transformed all three into Kemalist cities. To illustrate, I describe certain features of their spatial, symbolic and sensory re-organization. My concluding remarks address the radically divergent fate of Kemalist urbanism in the contemporary cities of Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara.
AB - Kemalism has been the guiding and justifying ideology of the Turkish Republic since its institution in 1923. That Kemalism is exclusive to Turkey is a mainstay of Kemalist self-perception. But was (or is) Kemalism as political practice pursued by other regimes in the region? This paper argues that Kemalism should also be understood as a project of urbanism, and that urban interventions into Ankara, Tehran and Baghdad in the 20th century transformed all three into Kemalist cities. To illustrate, I describe certain features of their spatial, symbolic and sensory re-organization. My concluding remarks address the radically divergent fate of Kemalist urbanism in the contemporary cities of Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899536319&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0725513614526157
DO - 10.1177/0725513614526157
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84899536319
SN - 0725-5136
VL - 121
SP - 57
EP - 75
JO - Thesis Eleven
JF - Thesis Eleven
IS - 1
ER -