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Encounters with Istanbul: Urban Peasants and Village Peasants

Encounters with Istanbul: Urban Peasants and Village Peasants Encounters with Istanbul: Urban Peasants and Village Peasants* P. SUZUKI Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. A perceptive article written by the Turcologist Gotthard Jaschke in 1936, dealing with the Anatolian peasants, contains the following admonition on the "Drang nach Istanbul" and the general alienation of the city dwellers from the peasants, who at that time constituted more than 80 per cent of the Turkish population: Der "Drang nach Istanbul" muss aufh6ren. Gelingt es - z.B. durch langeren Land- aufenthalt der stddischen Jugend -, die Stande einander naherzubringen, so werden die Gebildeten erkennen, dass sie nicht nur dem Bauern zu Zivilisation und technischem Fortschritt verhelfen, sondern auch aus dem reichen Schatz seiner Kultur selbst etwas empfanger kbnnen.1 This is an incisive observation considering that it was made in a period when the Kemalist Revolution was but a little over a decade old and urbani- zation as a problem did not exist nor was even adumbrated, and only emerged as a dynamic process of national scope after 1950. Since the latter date, Turkish intellectuals have become increasingly absorbed in urbanization as a social, economic, political, and moral problem of crisis proportions.2 2 A review of the literature dealing with urbanization by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Brill
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© 1964 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0020-7152
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1745-2554
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10.1163/156854264X00199
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Encounters with Istanbul: Urban Peasants and Village Peasants* P. SUZUKI Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. A perceptive article written by the Turcologist Gotthard Jaschke in 1936, dealing with the Anatolian peasants, contains the following admonition on the "Drang nach Istanbul" and the general alienation of the city dwellers from the peasants, who at that time constituted more than 80 per cent of the Turkish population: Der "Drang nach Istanbul" muss aufh6ren. Gelingt es - z.B. durch langeren Land- aufenthalt der stddischen Jugend -, die Stande einander naherzubringen, so werden die Gebildeten erkennen, dass sie nicht nur dem Bauern zu Zivilisation und technischem Fortschritt verhelfen, sondern auch aus dem reichen Schatz seiner Kultur selbst etwas empfanger kbnnen.1 This is an incisive observation considering that it was made in a period when the Kemalist Revolution was but a little over a decade old and urbani- zation as a problem did not exist nor was even adumbrated, and only emerged as a dynamic process of national scope after 1950. Since the latter date, Turkish intellectuals have become increasingly absorbed in urbanization as a social, economic, political, and moral problem of crisis proportions.2 2 A review of the literature dealing with urbanization by

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1964

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