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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI:10.1163/18739865-20219105

Torsten Janson, Neşe Kınıkoğlu

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Abstract

This article discusses how state-organized, memory-cultural production drawing on religious signifiers contributes to a sacralization of Turkish public memory institutions and public space. This reinforces an Islamic-nationalist imagination of contemporary Turkey. The article explores state-led, disciplinary interventions in museal space (the Sacred Trusts exhibition of relics at Topkapı Palace Museum) and commemorative ritual in public space, display and education (the rise, fall and recalibration of Holy Birth Week (Kutlu Doğum Haftası). Drawing on theories of symbolic politics, nationalism, memory and space, the article elucidates the sacralization of Turkish memory production as a contesting yet malleable negotiation of nationalism. Innovative Islamic memory practice and ritualization requires careful discursive and disciplinary boundary drawing, catering to theological sensitivities and Sunni-orthodox mores. Then again, the spatial boundaries between various memory-cultural domains are becoming less distinct. Today, Islamic-nationalist imaginaries surface in the interstices of public memory institutions, public education and everyday public space.

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神圣的(重新)集合

本文讨论了国家组织的、利用宗教能指的记忆文化生产如何有助于土耳其公共记忆机构和公共空间的神圣化。这加强了伊斯兰民族主义者对当代土耳其的想象。本文探讨了国家主导的、有纪律的博物馆空间干预(托普卡比宫博物馆的神圣信托文物展览)和公共空间、展示和教育中的纪念仪式(圣诞周的兴起、衰落和重新校准(Kutlu Doğum haftasye))。本文从象征政治、民族主义、记忆和空间等理论出发，阐述了土耳其记忆生产的神圣化是民族主义的一种有争议但具有延展性的谈判。创新的伊斯兰记忆实践和仪式化需要仔细的话语和学科边界的划定，迎合神学敏感性和逊尼派正统的习俗。然而，不同记忆文化领域之间的空间界限正变得越来越模糊。今天，伊斯兰民族主义的想象浮现在公共记忆机构、公共教育和日常公共空间的缝隙中。

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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the region’s encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping people’s everyday experiences. MEJCC’s long-term objective is to provide a vehicle for developing the field of study into communication and culture in the Middle East. The Journal encourages work that reconceptualizes dominant paradigms and theories of communication to take into account local cultural particularities.