Tarihyazımı

Yazarlar: Cenk REYHAN, Cansu AKSOY

Konular:Sosyal Bilimler Tarihi

Anahtar Kelimeler:Otherization,Orientalism,Westernism,Historiography,Nationalism,Conservatism,Islamism

Özet: People’s and society’s need of defining themselves involves a process which describes the non-self. The question related to who/what the self is frames the edge of other with reference to what the self is not. In this context, societies throughout the history, turn to other, of whom they have been in relation with, for composing their own content of meaning and values. It contains an identification/recognition process and it turns into a content in which the definition of self refer to centralism in 19th century. In conjuncture where capitalist expansionism was dominant, the state of being centre was fixed over the Oriental discourse. Self-other was redefined with Orientalism, thus, East realized its self-definition by getting rid of the meaning of Europe’s other. East constructed itself as the periphery-other of the centre of Europe and it builds itself as centre by avoiding of periphery through Occidental discourse. Occidentalism as opposed to Orientalism, tries to legitimize itself in historiography by the elements of being in centre and being different through using cultural and moral determinants. In order to examine how it realized, the important representatives of Islamism, Turkish and Conservatism will be examined in the context of Western discourse.

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