From Ayran To Dragon Fruit Smoothie: Populism, Polarization, and Social Engineering in Turkey

dc.contributor.author Karaosmanoğlu, Defne
dc.contributor.author Karaosmanoğlu, Nezaket Defne
dc.contributor.other Public Relations and Information
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-08T19:21:51Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-08T19:21:51Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.department Fakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Halkla İlişkiler ve Tanıtım Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract Food embedded with symbolic meaning has power in politics. Food as political communication is extensively studied as a nation branding and public diplomacy tool. However, academic studies seem to overlook the role that food plays in populism and political polarization. Pointing out a gap in the field, I explore the role of culinary culture in Turkish politics between 2013 and 2019 to demonstrate its polarizing effect and its role in social engineering. I argue that social engineering as part of constructing native/national culinary items, efforts to polarize people through an AKP-sanctioned culinary tradition, and the particulars of the palace menu, are at once contradictory and consistent. Despite government efforts to appeal to average people and to polarize the public both by replacing alcohol with native/national and familiar ayran and grape juice, and by distributing asure to the people, branded with the symbol of the presidency, the palace kitchen has also invoked the neo-Ottoman exotic by serving dragon fruit smoothie and chia seeds. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 3
dc.identifier.endpage 1274 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1932-8036 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1932-8036
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85099472275 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 1253 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/2893
dc.identifier.volume 14 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000519578900025 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q3
dc.institutionauthor Karaosmanoğlu, Defne en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher USC Annenberg Press en_US
dc.relation.journal International Journal of Communication en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
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dc.subject Food en_US
dc.subject Political communication en_US
dc.subject Populism en_US
dc.subject Turkey en_US
dc.subject Polarization en_US
dc.subject Neo-Ottomanism en_US
dc.title From Ayran To Dragon Fruit Smoothie: Populism, Polarization, and Social Engineering in Turkey en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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