The Dubious Case of a Failed Coup

This volume is an attempt to contextualise the coup attempt of 15 July 2016 in Turkey, within the framework of militarism and masculinities. The immediate aftermath of the 15 July in Turkey witnessed confusion, contestation and negotiation among different narratives, until a hegemonic version was superimposed on the collective memory as part of official history building. This project is an attempt to bring a fresh and critical perspective by compiling together analyses from various disciplines of political science, media and film studies, literature, sociology and cultural studies. Several chapters of this volume delineate the paradox of victorious militarism, meaning that despite the failure of the coup, its aftermath has been shaped by a new wave of state-sponsored gendered militarism, with the establishment of a regime of state of emergency.

Auteur
Feride Çiçekölu received her PhD in architecture from University of Pennsylvania. She started teaching in Turkey but she was imprisoned during the military junta of 1980 because of her political opposition. She is a professor at stanbul Bilgi University, Department of Film and Television.
Ömer Turan received his PhD from Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. He is an associate professor at stanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations.

Contenu

1. Introduction.- 2. A Midsummer Night's Coup: Performance and Power in Turkey's 15 July Coup Attempt.- 3. Contending Sacrifices: Discontent of Military Veterans of the Kurdish Conflict for Civilian Veterans of 15 July.- 4. Hegemonic Masculinity in Times of Crisis: 15 July Coup Attempt and the Turkish Football.- 5. The Secular Army or the New Ottoman Fantasy?: Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in the Image of stanbul.- 6. Press Start to Remember the Martyrs: On Video Games Commemorating the 2016 Coup Attempt in Turkey.- 7. The Undead Father: the Epic of 15 July as a Gothic Story.- 8. Insidious Trauma and Traumatized Masculinities in Orhan Pamuk's The Red-Haired Woman.- 9. Return to the Status Quo Ante: Reloading Militarism Before and After 15 July Coup Attempt.