Author meets Critics for Begüm Adalet's book Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Adalet’s Hotels and Highways examines Cold War Turkey as a laboratory of American society abroad, where geopolitical problems could be scaled down to manageable size, highlighting that problems of knowledge are entwined with political order.

Section

• Political Theory: Critical & Normative / Political Theory: Critical & Normative

Chair

• Inés Valdez, Ohio State University-Main Campus

Participants

• Katherine Gordy, San Francisco State University

• Jessica Blatt, Marymount Manhattan College

• Susan McWilliams Barndt, Pomona College

• Artemy Kalinovsky, Temple University

• Begüm Adalet, Cornell University