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... of inclusiveness, such a focus unravels the key tension between, on the one hand, progressive and left-wing calls to promote the allegedly equal, universal citizen in Turkey through protest movements and, on the other hand, the differential property regime on which the Turkish nation-state is founded, the denial...

... to the popular will. Recent political events in Turkey present a dramatic contrast to this historically established antagonism between secularization and populist politics. In the spring of 2007 a series of mass demonstrations, rallied in the name of secularism and against the elected Islamist regime, were...

...Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir; Nil Mutluer; Esra Özyürek Today thousands of academics from Turkey, along with others from Syria, Iran, and Egypt, are deserting their homeland in search of intellectual refuge in Western countries. These exiled academics practice diverse forms of teaching and researching...

...Clovis Bergère; Marwan M. Kraidy Abstract The rise of Turkish television drama series—or dizi as they are known in Turkey—is one of the most notable media phenomena of the past decade in francophone West Africa, particularly Guinea. This is taking place at a time when Turkey has significantly...

...Denise Gill Abstract This article provides an account of how sense experiences are drawn into processes of contest over the boundaries of citizenship and belonging. Based on ethnographic research in Istanbul and Ankara, it examines the ruptures of the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey. Particular...

...Ayşe Öncü Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago 1995 Literature Cited Acar , F. 1993 . “Islam in Turkey.” In C. Balkir and A. M. Williams, eds., Turkey and Europe. London: Pinter Publishers. Aksoy , A. , and N. Avci. 1992 . “Spreading Turkish Identity.” INTER...

...Deniz Yükseker © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Deniz Yükseker teaches sociology at Koc University in Istanbul. She is preparing a book manuscript on the informal economy between Turkey and the former Soviet Union and has begun a second research project on the internal displacement...

... with problems of migration (even less so in France than in Germany), nor can Turkey, which is a secular state, be identified with Islam. Yet, in public debates over the last two years, the matter of Turkish candidacy has shifted from the realm...

... engagement among Muslim countries. Equating national progress with women’s emancipation formed the backbone of Kemalist feminism. Simultaneously, during the last two decades, Turkey, like other Muslim countries, has witnessed the advent of contemporary Islamism.2 1. Farzaneh Milani, Veils...

.... Shami, Seteney. 1992 . Nineteenth century Circassian settlements in Jordan. In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan IV , edited by Adnan Hadidi. Amman, Jordan: Department of Antiquities. ———. 1995 . Disjuncture in ethnicity:Negotiating Circassian identity in Jordan, Turkey...

.... Research was begun in spring 2000, with empirical case studies by graduate- and postgraduate-level sociologists focusing on three typologically contrasting regions: secularized Turkey, desecularized Iran, and Europe as pluralist diaspora...

... of labor migrants has dramatically transformed the demographic makeup of Europe. Whether they came as guest workers or former colonial subjects, migrants from North Africa to France and the Netherlands, from South Asia to Great Britain, and from Turkey to West Germany produced the first significant...

... of Europe in the Constitutional Treaty or Joseph Ratzinger’s more popular 2004 opposition to the entry of Turkey into the European Union as “antihistorical.” “Historically and culturally, Turkey has little in common with Europe...

...David G. Nicholls © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 David G. Nicholls teaches at Bilkent University in Turkey and is the author of the forthcoming Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America. He was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Senegal for 1997–98. from...

..., because it’s my neighborhood. Maybe somewhere else people would have a problem but this is my neighborhood,” Mehmet told me. Conscription dates are set by district in Turkey, so there would be many boys becoming Mehmetçik s in Bahçelievler the first week of August. I went to see Mehmet at his...

... population, especially Kurdish minorities in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, MED-TV ’s programming, produced in large part in Belgium, is a mix of news, entertainment, and education, important to a historically diasporic community of 35 million peo- ple engaged in (among other things) trying to rediscover...

... Western contexts depend on local agencies and cultural fields. The experience of Islam in Public colonization in India, for example, or voluntary modernization in Turkey have shaped the ways in which the public sphere is imagined and institutionalized. Studying the adoption of modern concepts...

... the violence and the intimacy of extortion in Guatemala; through a study of Gezi Park we come to better understand property regimes in Turkey; and we discover how US nuclear workers are certain to experience exposure and why such injuries and harms are both normalized and justified. In the first Forum...

... compromise and corruption. These aspirational “narratives are part of a global charm offensive to promote Turkey's unique brand of modernity, both pious and entrepreneurial, Western and Islamic, captured by the notion of neo-Ottoman cool.” Drawing on Joseph Tonda's concept of éblouissement (dazzlement...

..., the Turkish state requires all men between nineteen and forty years of age to serve fifteen months of compulsory military service—a duty for which there is no existing alternative civilian option ( Government of Turkey 2012 ). However, Turkish law concedes exemption from mandatory military service...