Faces of the State: Secularism And Public Life In Turkey - Couverture souple

Navaro-Yashin, Yael

 
9780691088457: Faces of the State: Secularism And Public Life In Turkey
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691088454 ISBN 13 : 9780691088457
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Faces of the State is a penetrating study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state, Yael Navaro-Yashin brings recent poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. Delving deeper than studies of nationalist discourse that would focus on consciously articulated narratives of political identity, the author explores sites of "fantasy" in the public-political domain of Istanbul.

The book focuses on the conflict over secularism in the aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities. In contrast with studies that would problematize and objectify religious movements, the author examines the agency of secularists under a state widely known for its "secularist" policies. The complexity and dynamism of the context studied moves well beyond scholarly distinctions between "secularity" and "religion," as well as "state" and "society." Here, secularism and Islamism emerge as different guises for a culture of statism where people from "society" compete to claim "Turkish culture" for themselves and their life practices. With this work that stretches the boundaries of regionalism, the author situates her anthropological study of Turkey not only in scholarship on the Middle East, but also in the broader problem of thinking "Europe" anew.

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À propos de l?auteur

Yael Navaro-Yashin is University Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691088454
ISBN 13 
9780691088457
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780691088440: Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691088446 ISBN 13 :  9780691088440
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2002
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