A biopolitical perspective on national belonging in the early Turkish Republic

Dell A. C.

Turkish Studies, cilt.25, sa.4, ss.581-602, 2024 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/14683849.2024.2340508
  • Dergi Adı: Turkish Studies
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Political Science Complete, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.581-602
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Agamben, Biopolitics, citizenship, Foucault, Turkey
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article explores the degree to which citizenship in the early Turkish Republic was informed by a biopolitical logic of the administration of population as a social body. How this larger biopolitical logic is connected to understandings of the national project being ‘modern’ and/or ‘scientific’ is also explored, as well as how this approach is preferable to an account based on the perspective of Agamben. Furthermore, this analysis examines how limits to belonging were understood in the period, especially in relation to minority populations, and how they were categorized.