Julien Boucly, « World Heritage Manufacture in Turkey and the Introduction of a New Public Policy System », in Girard M., Polo JF., Scalbert-Yücel C. (eds) Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-257. lien From the 2000s, Turkey has become increasingly committed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage program. It has implemented a whole raft of measures, including numerous applications for cultural heritage listing, increased financial contributions, and active participation in UNESCO’s functioning, all of which indicate the ambition of the Turkish government to become a key player in UNESCO arenas.

Lydia Zeghmar, « Tradition Makers. The Recognition Process of a Local Dance: From the Village to the Institutions », in Girard M., Polo JF., Scalbert-Yücel C. (eds) Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-232. lien Since 2012 the village of Eğridere, a hamlet lying in the valley of the Little Meander in south-west Turkey, has become a key destination for zeybek lovers in the region. Zeybek is a popular musical and choreographic genre whose roots lie in the Turkish Aegean hinterland. The genre is associated with mountain life and an agropastoral social imaginary, as well as with representations of combat. In 2012 a leading figure from the Dance and Music Folklore Section of the Turkish State Music Conservatory

J.-F. Polo, « Turkish Cultural Policy: In Search of a New Model? » in Girard M., Polo JF., Scalbert-Yücel C. (eds) Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-103. lien In 2012 the Turkish Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) government announced it was drafting a new cultural policy better attuned to changes affecting Turkish society and contemporary dynamics within the cultural sector. Policy-makers argued that a new model was needed for cultural policy which would “break with the French model” and be closer to “the English model”. The new normative framework was to consolidate shifts in Turkey’s cultural policy since the AKP came to power in 2002. However, the succession of serious political events since

C. Scalbert-Yücel, « The Dream of a Village: The Yeşil Yayla Festival and the Making of a World of Culture in the Town of Arhavi », in Girard M., Polo JF., Scalbert-Yücel C. (eds) Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-207. lien Accompanied by a tulum player wearing a wedding gown and carrying a basket full of fruits, a stilt-walker from Istanbul leads a procession on the main road of the small town of Arhavi. The procession is colourful and diverse, comprising young middle-class Istanbul or Ankara dwellers, including youth and families; foreigners interested in local music and dance; festival workers and volunteers from the region but who have come from Western cities, sometimes accompanied by some family

Girard M., Polo JF., Scalbert-Yücel C. (eds) Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World. Palgrave Macmillan lien This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes an innovative approach to the transfer of cultural policies, considering them in terms of co-production and synchrony. This argument is developed through an examination of circulations at the international, national, and local levels; employing original empirical data and case study analyses. Divided into three parts the book first examines the Kemalist legacy, before turning to the cultural policies developed under the AKP’s leadership, and concludes by investigating the production of cultural policies