The Education of International Relations in Turkey and Orientalism: a Critical Pedagogical Approach To the Discipline

dc.contributor.author Ongur, Hakan Övünç
dc.contributor.author Gürbüz, Selman Emre
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-19T12:51:40Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-19T12:51:40Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.department Fakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract Using a qualitative discourse analysis, this article aims at introducing the sub-discipline of Critical Pedagogy (CP) to the studies of International Relations (IR), incorporating the orientalist text analysis into CP and arguing over the orientalist texture of the undergraduate education of IR in Turkey. It is argued here that due to the Western-centrism of CP studies, they 'forget' to bring into question the orientalist tone of the standardized Western curricula, next to the main discussions of academic capitalism and neoliberal instrumentalization of education. Making an investigation of the curricula and the fundamental reading materials over ten selected IR programmes in Turkey, this article both recalls this need of orientalist inquiry in CP studies and provides a fresh perspective for the scholarly analysis of the IR education in Turkey. The findings suggest a non-critical reproduction of the Western literature for the Turkish IR as well as a continuation, if not reinforcement, of this literature by the Turkish-speaking academia. As a result, it is argued here that the orientalist subtext of concepts, including radical Islam, Jihadism, fundamentalism, Islamic terror, the Third World, underdevelopment, etc., has become a part of the IR literature in Turkey. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 4
dc.identifier.endpage 28 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1304-7310 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1304-7310
dc.identifier.issue 31 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q2
dc.identifier.startpage 23 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3593
dc.identifier.volume 16 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000486565400003 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q4
dc.institutionauthor Gürbüz, Selman Emre en_US
dc.language.iso tr en_US
dc.publisher Uluslararasi İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği en_US
dc.relation.journal Uluslararası İlişkiler-International Relations en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess en_US
dc.subject International Relations en_US
dc.subject Critical Pedagogy en_US
dc.subject Orientalism en_US
dc.subject Education en_US
dc.subject Turkey en_US
dc.title The Education of International Relations in Turkey and Orientalism: a Critical Pedagogical Approach To the Discipline en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 4
dspace.entity.type Publication

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