Reimagining Colonised Landscapes Book Club: Turkey's Neo-Ottomanist Moment

The Reimagining Colonised Landscapes Book Club will meet monthly.

This reading group aims to create a space for collective reflection and discussion on colonialism, decolonisation, power, resistance, and knowledge production.

Through non fiction texts, we will examine the historical, political, and social contexts of selected books, discussing how these texts resonate with the present, what they represent for whom, and how they can be read.

Meetings are open; anyone interested may join in any meeting. Regular attendance is not mandatory, and if you have only managed to read part of the book or even a couple of chapters, we would still love for you to join us for a discussion.

Due to the sensitivity of the topics, participants are expected to approach the discussion with respect, attentive listening, and careful language. This space is geared toward learning, questioning, and collaborative thinking.

Each session will focus on the following topics related to the book:

• The accessibility and comprehensibility of the text
• Its relevance to contemporary contexts
• How it intersects with different experiences and perspectives
• The discussion will mainly revolve around these topics.

Book club members get 15% off book club books with the code DECOLONIAL-LANDSCAPE-BOOKS.

This meeting will be in-person in the bookshop, from 5-7pm.

The book

Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanist Moment, A Eurasianist Odyssey, is the most comprehensive account to date of the transformation of Turkey’s foreign policy related to its regime change. With first-hand knowledge, Cengiz Çandar tells the story of the emergence of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s revisionist Turkey in global affairs. References from almost 90 different names from around 20 countries, he also reflects how the international expertise on Turkey viewed Turkey.