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Body as an unfinished project<br />

The distinction made between ‘White’ and ‘Black’ Turks is discussed with respect<br />

to the concept of ‘civilised bodies’, a concept developed from Norbert Elias’<br />

The Civilising Process. The particular construction of civilised bodies, it is argued,<br />

has to do with the nature of the Kemalist project of Westernisation, which<br />

to quote Sayyid had to Orientalise in order to Westernise. That is, the ‘Other’ in<br />

opposition to whom identity is constructed had to be created from within,<br />

which led to what Bauman calls the ‘internalization of ambivalence’.<br />

The way the ‘uncivilized body’ is represented, it is argued, is reminiscient of<br />

Bakhtin’s ‘animalistic’, ‘grotesque’ body which is opposed to severance from the<br />

material and bodily roots of the world and does not renounce the earthly. Bakhtin’s<br />

dialogical principle is discussed with respect to dialogical body politics.

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