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Faces of the State : Secularism and Public Life in Turkey / Yael Navaro-Yashin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 9 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780691214283
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.09561 22
LOC classification:
  • GN585.T9 N38 2002eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Semiconscious States: The Political and the Psychic in Urban Public Life -- PART I: CULTURAL POLITICS -- 1. Prophecies of Culture: Rumor, Humor, and Secularist Projections about "Islamic Public Life" -- 2. The Place of Turkey: Contested Regionalism in an Ambiguous Area -- 3. The Market for Identities: Buying and Selling Secularity and Islam -- PART II: STATE FANTASIES -- 4. Rituals for the State: Public Statism and the Production of "Civil Society" -- 5. Fantasies for the State: Hype, Cynicism, and the Everyday Life of Statecraft -- 6. The Cult of Ataturk: The Apparition of a Secularist Leader in Uncanny Forms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Semiconscious States: The Political and the Psychic in Urban Public Life -- PART I: CULTURAL POLITICS -- 1. Prophecies of Culture: Rumor, Humor, and Secularist Projections about "Islamic Public Life" -- 2. The Place of Turkey: Contested Regionalism in an Ambiguous Area -- 3. The Market for Identities: Buying and Selling Secularity and Islam -- PART II: STATE FANTASIES -- 4. Rituals for the State: Public Statism and the Production of "Civil Society" -- 5. Fantasies for the State: Hype, Cynicism, and the Everyday Life of Statecraft -- 6. The Cult of Ataturk: The Apparition of a Secularist Leader in Uncanny Forms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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