Ziya Toprak

Modernizing Souls: Creating Modern Mother Ziya Toprak

This study basically argues the ways of operation of civil society organizations (CSOs) on micro-level of society. Based on this discussion, it offers to interrogate the micro-levels of Turkish modernity which also has been a missing part in the research of Turkish modernization. Particularly after the Marmara Earthquake of 1999, CSOs have appeared as mechanisms which provide social services to people and disseminate peculiar imaginaries. It also the same process through which middle classes has begun to voice their desire to transform particular domains of society.