Cultural Studies in Turkey: The State of the Art
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https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.13543Keywords:
Cultural studies courses, Ege Cultural Studies Symposium, Cultural Studies Asso-ciation, university programs, problems encounteredAbstract
Recent socio-political developments have rendered cultural studies of the Republic of Turkey an ever-widening field of study, as they lead apparently to a probable paradigm shift in a society that was once thought to be purely Western-oriented. The analysis of this transformation is before all else a cultural studies task. Accordingly, this paper has two aims: one, to make a a brief survey of cultural studies work that has been done so far in Turkey; and two, draw attention to the various problems encountered by the instruction and practice of cultural stud-ies in the country.
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