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Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
Yael Navaro-Yashin
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Paperback. A study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. It brings poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. It focuses on the conflict over secularism in the aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJPR; HRQA; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
373g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691088457
SKU
V9780691088457
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About Yael Navaro-Yashin
Yael Navaro-Yashin is University Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.
Reviews for Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
A provocative and sophisticated analysis of value to regional specialists and scholars interested in the nature of the state.
Choice Navaro-Yashin's highly innovative use of an ethnographic approach to establish evidence to support her two major arguments
concerning the shared political culture of secularists and Islamists and the regeneration of the state through the margins
is extremely successful. A welcome addition ... Read more
Choice Navaro-Yashin's highly innovative use of an ethnographic approach to establish evidence to support her two major arguments
concerning the shared political culture of secularists and Islamists and the regeneration of the state through the margins
is extremely successful. A welcome addition ... Read more