Papers by Ali Babahan
Özgür Yayınları eBooks, Jun 25, 2023
Technological developments and globalization has changed human nature. This change directly affec... more Technological developments and globalization has changed human nature. This change directly affects all stages of human life. At this point, it becomes inevitable to carry out research on people and human life. All studies carried out in the field of Social Sciences aim to understand human, human life and human nature. In this work, which was put forward in order to understand the human, different studies from different disciplines were discussed and a step was tried to be built in order to reach this goal, albeit to some extent.
Current Approaches in Social Sciences, 2023
This study investigates the historical foundations of the Turkish-Islamic synthesis, a threefold ... more This study investigates the historical foundations of the Turkish-Islamic synthesis, a threefold discourse combining religion, nationalism, and modernization in the form of Westernization, which was systematically indoctrinated by nationalist intellectuals in Turkey during the 1970s. The argument of the study is that Young Ottomans were the first voices of the discursive orientation to unite and synthesize all three elements, as part of the quest to construct a modern Ottoman identity to save the state in the last period of the Ottoman Empire. At the official level, this discourse gradually became institutionalized and officialized during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II with the expansion of modernization policies aimed at transforming society and the state and formed the basis for state policies in many areas. To this end, the writings and statements of Young Ottomans are analyzed in detail, followed by a comprehensive evaluation of the policy implementations in the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Abdül Hamid II and their reflections on education, also including the Sultan’s own expressions, in terms of ideological attempt to articulate Islam, Turkishness, and Westernization.
This study focuses on a detailed analysis of the relationship between nationalism and religion (I... more This study focuses on a detailed analysis of the relationship between nationalism and religion (Islam) in textbooks taught in Turkish education system between 1924 and 1950. It can be regarded as a re-assessment of general assumptions in the literature presuming the dominance of an authoritative secular nationalism in the textbooks of the whole early republican period. In this respect, the textbooks used at primary, middle and high school levels as part of the history, citizenship, sociology, and religion courses in this period are analyzed in terms of the relations between nationalist and religious discourses, mostly from a qualitative perspective. Accordingly, the early republican era can be divided into three sub-periods when the continuities and varieties of the discourses in textbooks are specifically considered. The dominant discourse, found in textbooks of the first sub-period between 1924 and 1931, is based on the idea that Islam and Turkishness are the two complementary com...
Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
The ideological diversity within the bureaucracy during the modernization process in the last per... more The ideological diversity within the bureaucracy during the modernization process in the last period of the Ottoman Empire is mostly reduced to three different ideological orientations composed of Westernism, Islamism, and Turkism in the relevant literature. However, claiming that this model, which is formulated regarding the classical works of Gökalp and Akçura, could not adequately explain the actual ideological division between the bureaucrats of the period, this study aims to propose a new theoretical framework based upon an alternative tripartite model. For this, Anthony D. Smith’s infamous theoretical explanation about the ideological-strategic differences between the bureaucratic elites of various societies, which rise as a response to the experience of modernization, is re-evaluated and reformulated concerning the intellectual contribution revealed in classical and contemporary studies on the ideological and intellectual orientations within the late Ottoman elites. Accordingly, the first ideological orientation within the elite groups that fundamentally stood against any attempts in the name of modernization and advocated retaining the Islamic tradition could be entitled “traditionalism.” The second one, which could be named “Westernism” (Westernist modernism), asserted that the only way to capture Western civilization was following the same modernization path as the West, contrary to the previous orientation. “Conservatism” (conservative modernism), the third and final ideological orientation, made a distinction between the fields of culture and civilization and idealized to implement a conservative version of modernization by synthesizing Islamic tradition with the technical developments of the contemporary Western world.
Alternatif Politika, 2009
This study mainly aims to evaluate the Village Institutes of Early Turkish Republic as a social p... more This study mainly aims to evaluate the Village Institutes of Early Turkish Republic as a social policy project. The Institutes, which existed between 1940 and 1954, were mainly established upon some political, social, economic and cultural objectives. However those schools have mostly been evaluated with reference to their ideological dimensions rather than being analyzed as a social policy implementation. Indeed, this project was developed in order to eliminate the relative deprivation of some disadvantaged population in reaching to education, besides serving as an ideological apparatus. Thus, although the project certainly had political implications; early Republican administration implemented this social policy project without considering any linguistic, ethnic, racial, religious, sectarian, regional, or sexual discrimination like an ideal welfare state had to do. In this context, the claim of this research is that the Village Institutes of the Early Turkish Republic, which occupied a noticeable position in the whole history of Turkish political and educational history, should be considered as a social democratic social policy implementation. As organized by a group of people, who were aware of the importance of the “education” in human development, the
project mainly aimed to eradicate various dimensions of the inequalities among the citizens of the state, especially inequalities between the individuals of urban and rural settlements. At this regard, the project Village is analyzed in detail as a social policy implementation in this study, mainly emphasizing the dimensions that make this model as social democratic.
Conference Presentations by Ali Babahan
10. Ulusal Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi, Ankara, 2007
1. Uluslararası Eğitim Bilimleri ve Sosyal Bilimler Sempozyumu, 2017
Bu kitabın basım, yayın, satış hakları Yargı Yayınevine aittir. Anılan kuruluşun izni alınmadan k... more Bu kitabın basım, yayın, satış hakları Yargı Yayınevine aittir. Anılan kuruluşun izni alınmadan kitabın tümü ya da bölümleri mekanik, elektronik, fotokopi, manyetik ya da başka yöntemlerle çoğaltılamaz, basılamaz, dağıtılamaz.
18th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), 2008
14. Ulusal Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi, 2015
8. Ulusal Sosyoloji Kongresi, 2016
Books by Ali Babahan
Neden, Nasıl ve Kim İçin Kentsel Dönüşüm, 2015
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Education, 2014
Eğitimin Toplumsal Temelleri, 2018
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Papers by Ali Babahan
project mainly aimed to eradicate various dimensions of the inequalities among the citizens of the state, especially inequalities between the individuals of urban and rural settlements. At this regard, the project Village is analyzed in detail as a social policy implementation in this study, mainly emphasizing the dimensions that make this model as social democratic.
Conference Presentations by Ali Babahan
Books by Ali Babahan
project mainly aimed to eradicate various dimensions of the inequalities among the citizens of the state, especially inequalities between the individuals of urban and rural settlements. At this regard, the project Village is analyzed in detail as a social policy implementation in this study, mainly emphasizing the dimensions that make this model as social democratic.