... acknowledge these contributions and am indebted to all, any errors are my own. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Specter and Reality of Corruption in State and Civil Society: Privatizing and Auditing Poor Relief in Turkey Damla Isik...

...Mohamed Zayani The advent of civil society in the Arab world, the proliferation of nongovernmental advocacy organizations, and the expansion of civil society activism have been heralded as promising developments with significant implications on the region’s immutable political environment. While...

...Vivek Bhandari Duke University Press 2006 Civil Society and the Predicament of Multiple Publics Vivek Bhandari n a newspaper article published recently, Neera Chandhoke, someone...

...Masoud Kazemzadeh © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 The State, Civil Society and the Prospects of Islamic Fundamentalism Masoud Kazemzadeh Why have fundamentalists so far succeeded only in rulers...

... project. It is Islamism as political practice and not solely the dynamism of civil society that lies at the root of the city's religious transformation. Nevertheless, Islamism becomes influential because it is able to link civil society and urban subjectivity to its project. These arguments are based...

... and the rise of religious fundamentalism in civil society. Duke University Press 2011 Two Concepts of Secularism Ramin Jahanbegloo ecularism, for many of us, is not a terra incognita, and yet it is certainly an improperly defined and unexplained concept. For more than 150 years...

... and political engagement via civil society in mainstream scholarship. It argues for a productive synthesis of Indian and African postcolonial theories of democratic agency and political practice by analyzing the possibilities and limitations of Partha Chatterjee's notion of “political society” relative to local...

... and the tolerant secularists can coexist and find mutual understanding. Iranian intellectuals, whether religious or nonreligious, or liberals, nationalists, socialists, or social democrats, should agree on one principle and that is that they all can freely compete in civil society, but they should not bring...

...Mayssoun Sukarieh Drawing on analysis of different sources—media analysis, policy documents, interviews, and participant observation—this article analyzes the representation of Queen Rania of Jordan and the First Lady of Syria, Asma al-Assad, and their work in civil society. An analysis of Rania...

... and the people who work and reside there are continuously abjected by civil society's propertied classes, which view them with anxiety and loathing, as a source of crime, nuisance and detriment. Thus, “waste” as concept-matter but also a locus where labor and ecology meet is a neglected but powerful site...

... rights, it would seem the mainstream and the varying dissident crafts of writing history have largely ignored the micro stories of cruelties in state and civil society. How periodization poses many a challenge to the craft of writing histories of law is explored, as are the interplays in writing history...

... this phenomenon and deem it an important contribution to national development and civil society and a tool for promoting citizenship rights. At a more local micro level of analysis, some concerns are raised regarding the function of the NGO, for example, as a project-driven organization with a limited, transitory...

... of the Sharia-centered system makes free faith much more difficult than it is under nonreligious dictatorships. Nonetheless, historical and existing experiences also reveal that the faithful can have something constructive to offer in civil society and in the public sphere. Religion is not and cannot be fully...

... difficulties, there are new opportunities that were not available to previous generations of intellectuals. Thirty years of Islamic rule has made the calls for the separation of religion from the state far more widespread; despite ceaseless suppression of the opposition, a lively and vibrant civil society...

... . “Securing the Market, Pacifying Civil Society, Empowering Women: The Middle East Partnership Initiative.” Sociological Forum 25 , no. 4 ( 2010 ): 725 – 45 . Sedra Paul . “Class Cleavages and Ethnic Conflict: Coptic Christian Communities in Modern Egyptian Politics.” Islam and Christian...

...- building: “‘I am deter-   the norms of civil society in Pakistan. This ex- mined to pull every Muslim out of East Punjab National posure turned on the related issues of dar ul- and plant them...

... Benevolent Society with other Coptic laity in 1881, he and the board of directors envisioned medical care for the Coptic poor as the organization's first and primary duty. When they faced a myriad of challenges in erecting the hospital, they pivoted to a broader purview of the society's mandate by expanding...

... theory and westernization movements in postcolonial Muslim societies, as well as the Cold War superpower competition in world politics. Finally, the article reflects on the long-term legacy of the civilizational thinking of Islamism for the post–Cold War clash of civilization discourses and contemporary...

... novel psychoanalytic meanings and conceptualizations. It also emerged to represent symbolically a resistance to, if not a break from, some features of Western (Freudian) psychoanalytic discourse, including those that relate to society and civilization. In sum, through a close reading of Şadan’s writings...

... their authoritarian rule and hegemonist chronic weakness of civil society in Kurdistan. This political culture, varied substantially in form and char- weakness, perpetuated by the violence of the “other,” acter. Their structural dynamics charted diverse paths is the primary cause of this undignified metamorpho...