Once There Was and Once There Wasn't: the Tale of Intellectuals and the State in Turkey

dc.authorid Gencoglu, Funda/0000-0001-8211-8624
dc.authorscopusid 55535975500
dc.contributor.author Gencoglu, Funda
dc.contributor.other Political Science and Public Administration
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T15:22:20Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T15:22:20Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Gencoglu, Funda] Atilim Univ, Dept Polit Sci & Publ Adm, Ankara, Turkiye en_US
dc.description Gencoglu, Funda/0000-0001-8211-8624 en_US
dc.description.abstract This article presents a taxonomy of various conceptions of the intellectual and then analyses the changing official discourse on intellectuals in Turkey with reference to this taxonomy. The taxonomy developed here is an original contribution to the existing literature on intellectuals. It distinguishes six conceptions of the intellectual: (i) as the gadfly and the gift of god, (ii) as the philosopher, (iii) as parrhesiastes, (iv) as the activist, (v) as the exile and (vi) as the persona non grata. During the single-party years, the dominant approach oscillated between the intellectual as gadfly, God's gift and philosopher; during the 1960s and 1970s, it was replaced by a conception of the intellectual as the activist; during the aftermath of the 1980 coup d'etat, the intellectual was the exile. During the 1990s and 2000s, the intellectuals were mainly the critics of the hegemonic Kemalism, thus they were the epitomisation of parrhesia. This study argues that variations within the official discourse on intellectuals give important clues about how a hegemonic configuration is installed/challenged/displaced/replaced/re-installed, and since the current hegemony in Turkey stands on anti-intellectualism, the intellectual is now persona non grata. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 0
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/01436597.2023.2219607
dc.identifier.endpage 2114 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0143-6597
dc.identifier.issn 1360-2241
dc.identifier.issue 9 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85162716119
dc.identifier.startpage 2098 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2219607
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/2183
dc.identifier.volume 44 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:001011920100001
dc.identifier.wosquality Q3
dc.institutionauthor Gençoğlu, Funda
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
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dc.subject Intellectuals en_US
dc.subject anti-intellectualism en_US
dc.subject hegemony en_US
dc.subject parrhesia en_US
dc.subject populism en_US
dc.title Once There Was and Once There Wasn't: the Tale of Intellectuals and the State in Turkey en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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