Esra Özyürek. Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

1 For two other recent and wonderfully innovative ethnographies in the field of political anthropology, see, Ayşe Gül, Altınay, The Myth of the Military Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education in Turkey (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Navaro-Yashin, Yael, Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).

2 Williams, Raymond, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).

3 Boym, Svetlana, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001).

4 Özyürek, Esra, Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 91.

5 Ibid., 150.

6 Ibid., 95.

7 Ibid., 154.

8 Ibid., 180.

9 Ibid., 182, all italics mine.

10 Navaro-Yashin, Faces of the State; Parla, Taha, Türkiye'de Siyasal Kültürün Resmi Kaynakları: Atatürk'ün Nutuk'u (İstanbul: İletişim, 1991).