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Cellular telephony in Turkey: A technology of self-produced modernity
This article explores the collective attachment to cellphones in Turkey by focusing on the dynamic relationship between the cellphone as a containing technology of modernity, and its non-elite users who are in search of a safe shelter for their hybrid identities. By taking a close look at the practices whereby the cell phone and its users reciprocally affect each other to produce experiences of the modern in negotiation with the local fabric, this article suggests that being with cellphones in Turkey means being with modernity in novel ways. These ways involve the experience and imagination of departure from the historical and collective melancholia that is dissociable from the historical elitist vision of modernity. Using data largely from fieldwork, this study explores how the cellphone has been integrated into the collective struggle to generate lived practices of modernity as a societal self-production which would take bodies away from historical and collective melancholia.
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- Loughborough University London
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European Journal of Cultural StudiesVolume
14Issue
2Pages
147 - 161Citation
CELIK, B., 2011. Cellular telephony in Turkey: A technology of self-produced modernity. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(2), pp. 147-161.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by SAGE Publications.Version
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2011Notes
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1367-5494eISSN
1460-3551Publisher version
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- en
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