Research Article

Self-Orientalism and the Media's Role in Turkey Before 2000

Volume: 17 Number: 35 March 31, 2021
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Self-Orientalism and the Media's Role in Turkey Before 2000

Abstract

Self-orientalism stands out as a political strategy implemented voluntarily by modernizing leaders during the formation of modern-nation-states, and by intellectuals who are in contact with modern colonialists during the post-colonial period. In other words, orientalism has been internalized in post-colonial media and post-colonial state practices. In the age we live in, there is no orientalism apart from the phenomenon of self-orientalism. The internalization of orientalism during the dynamics of modernization has led to the transformation of orientalism into a hegemony-power relationship in today's sense. Self-orientalism is the individuals’ and societies’ understanding and interpretation of themselves through ideas that do not belong to them. In addition to the literature and inter-communal relations, the media plays an undeniably important role in the formation of the individuals’ and societies’ own false consciousness. This is a process of self-alienation and becoming the other of itself. In this study, the role of media in self-orientalism will be addressed.

Keywords

Orientalism , Modernism , Civilization , Othering , Hegemony

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APA
Özçelik, T. G. (2021). Self-Orientalism and the Media’s Role in Turkey Before 2000. OPUS International Journal of Society Researches, 17(35), 2179-2208. https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.856102