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1. 1. "They Want to Control Everything" - Discourse and Lifestyle in Contemporary Turkey

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Lars Bädeker; [2016]
   Keywords : lifestyle; identity; critical discourse analysis; Kemalism; secularism; political Islam; Turkey;

   Abstract : Based upon anthropological fieldwork and contemporary literature as well as an analysis of media reports and statements by government officials such as current president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, this thesis explores the interrelations between political discourses, lifestyle, and identity construction in contemporary Turkey. In the thesis, it is depicted how certain lifestyle choices are legally limited or (drawing on moral, religious, and nationalist discourses) labeled as 'bad' or 'wrong' by the current AKP government and certain parts of society. READ MORE