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Popular Culture and Foreign Policy

The Case of Turkey and Valley of Wolves: Ambush

Umut Yukaruç

This book argues that, as a popular text, the Turkish television series Valley of the Wolves: Ambush functions as a site for consent production for foreign policies formed by the AKP within the last decade, through a process of reproduction of state identities, ideologies, and discourses at the level of narrative. This book positions its argument in two fields: Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) studies and Popular Culture and World Politics within the larger International Relations context. It is interdisciplinary in nature as it also makes use of theories around popular culture. It advances works within these fields by focusing on a particular national context and offer an original analysis on Turkey. While doing so, it employs discourse analysis. It also teases out some of the complexities of the nature and implications of representation of the TFP by using critical reception. Together with an analysis of the critical reception of the television series, political discourses around foreign policy is examined in line with the ways in which these policies are depicted and reproduced by the series. This leads to an intertextual reading of Turkish state identity and security imaginary and a critical examination of the TFP in the last decade from a Constructivist perspective.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 214 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅛
978-1-66691-810-6 • Hardback • January 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
Subjects: Political Science / General, History / Middle East / General

Umut Yukaruç is lecturer at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University.

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Theoretical Framework

Chapter 2 Historical Background of Turkish Politics

Chapter 3 The Security Imaginary in the Era of the AKP: Three Representations

Chapter 4 The Case of Valley of the Wolves: Ambush

Chapter 5 VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Turkey as the Leader of the Middle East

Chapter 6 VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Turkey as the Defender of the Oppressed

Chapter 7 VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Self-Confident Turkey

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

In this compelling volume, Umut Yukaruç advances the field of popular culture and world politics beyond the West. He persuasively demonstrates how popular culture matters to politics in Turkey by analyzing how television series like Valley of the Wolves produce and reproduce the ideology of the AKP. In doing so, Yukaruç raises important questions about contemporary hegemony, foreign policy practices, and the future of Turkey.


— Kyle Grayson, Professor of Security, Politics, and Culture, Newcastle University (UK)


Popular Culture and Foreign Policy

The Case of Turkey and Valley of Wolves: Ambush

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Summary
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  • This book argues that, as a popular text, the Turkish television series Valley of the Wolves: Ambush functions as a site for consent production for foreign policies formed by the AKP within the last decade, through a process of reproduction of state identities, ideologies, and discourses at the level of narrative. This book positions its argument in two fields: Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) studies and Popular Culture and World Politics within the larger International Relations context. It is interdisciplinary in nature as it also makes use of theories around popular culture. It advances works within these fields by focusing on a particular national context and offer an original analysis on Turkey. While doing so, it employs discourse analysis. It also teases out some of the complexities of the nature and implications of representation of the TFP by using critical reception. Together with an analysis of the critical reception of the television series, political discourses around foreign policy is examined in line with the ways in which these policies are depicted and reproduced by the series. This leads to an intertextual reading of Turkish state identity and security imaginary and a critical examination of the TFP in the last decade from a Constructivist perspective.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 214 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅛
    978-1-66691-810-6 • Hardback • January 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
    Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
    Subjects: Political Science / General, History / Middle East / General
Author
Author
  • Umut Yukaruç is lecturer at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements

    List of Abbreviations

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 Theoretical Framework

    Chapter 2 Historical Background of Turkish Politics

    Chapter 3 The Security Imaginary in the Era of the AKP: Three Representations

    Chapter 4 The Case of Valley of the Wolves: Ambush

    Chapter 5 VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Turkey as the Leader of the Middle East

    Chapter 6 VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Turkey as the Defender of the Oppressed

    Chapter 7 VoW: Ambush and the Representation of Self-Confident Turkey

    Conclusion

    Bibliography

    Index

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • In this compelling volume, Umut Yukaruç advances the field of popular culture and world politics beyond the West. He persuasively demonstrates how popular culture matters to politics in Turkey by analyzing how television series like Valley of the Wolves produce and reproduce the ideology of the AKP. In doing so, Yukaruç raises important questions about contemporary hegemony, foreign policy practices, and the future of Turkey.


    — Kyle Grayson, Professor of Security, Politics, and Culture, Newcastle University (UK)


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