Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire by Bure elik - 9780252045257

Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman EmpireA Critical History\nAuthor(s): Bure elik\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252045257, 978-0252045257\nSynopsis\nDe-Westernizing the communications history of Turkey and its imperial predecessor The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Bure elik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communications and how it affected production and practice for oppressed populations like women, the working class, and ethnic and religious minorities. Moving from the mid-nineteenth century through today, elik places networks within the changing geopolitical landscape and the evolution of modern capitalism in relationship to struggles involving a range of social and political .