Publishing Translations in the Social Sciences Since the 1980s: an Alternative View of Culture Planning in Turkey

Taking the 1980s as a reference point, this study focuses on the network of relationships between publishers, translations in the social sciences and culture planning in Turkey. The analyses it presents are based on interviews held with nine publishing houses that were set up in the 1980s, in the aftermath of the military coup on September 12, 1980, which had significant political, social, and cultural impacts. Most of them still active today, the publishers in this context, with varying publishing policies and agendas, are viewed as culture planners who aim to intervene in the state of things in the country.