{"product_id":"faces-of-the-state-9780691088457","title":"Faces of the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 to the ethnography of Turkey, this study will be also of use to readers interested in debates on civil society, the public sphere, nationalism, and subjectivity.\"--Leyla Neyzi, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  Acknowledgments xi  Introduction  Semiconscious States: The Political and the Psychic in Urban Public Life 1  Entering the City 1  Secularism in Public Life 6  The Turkish Astronomer and the Little Prince 8  The Construction of \"Turkish Culture\" 10  \"The Anthropology of Turkey\" 12  The Not-Too-Native Anthropologist 13  Researching the Political 15  PART I: CULTURAL POLITICS 17  1. Prophecies of Culture: Rumor, Humor, and Secularist Projections about \"Islamic Public Life\" 19  \"The Native\" 19  Tales of Nightmare 22  Rumor or Reality? 29  The Issues at Stake 36  The Prophecy 40  Public Life and the Construction of \"Local Culture\" 42  2. The Place of Turkey: Contested Regionalism in an Ambiguous Area 44  \"Turkey\" as Sign 44  The History of \"Region\" 46  Beheadings in Saudi Arabia 51  Joining the Customs Union 55  The Place of Turkey 58  The Contest over \"Region\" 65  \"The Middle Eastern Woman\" 67  Undoing Area Studies 73  3. The Market for Identities: Buying and Selling Secularity and Islam 78  Consuming \"Culture\" 78  The Veil as a Commodity 82  Secularist Commodities 85  Istanbul's New Marketplaces 90  The Islamist Department Store 94  The Trademark of Islam 98  The Force of Symbols 107  The Market for Identities 111  PART II: STATE FANTASIES 115  4. Rituals for the State: Public Statism and the Production of \"Civil Society\" 117  The Soldier's Farewell 117  The Wrestler as Leviathan 122  The Flag Campaign 127  Does \"Civil Society\" Exist? 130  \"The Transparent Reflection of Society\" 137  \"A Holiday of the People\" 144  The Agency of \"Society\" 152  5. Fantasies for the State: Hype, Cynicism, and the Everyday Life of Statecraft 155  Does the \"State\" Exist? 155  Mundane Cynicism 166  The Truck That Crashed into the \"State\" 171  The Magnetism of State Crime 180  The Afterlife of the \"State\" 183  6. The Cult of Ataturk: The Apparition of a Secularist Leader in Uncanny Forms 188  Like a Cross That Stops the Devil ... 190  \"Visits to a Saint's Tomb\" 191  Mystical Apparitions 193  Calling Spirits 194  Numerology 195  Statues and Idols 196  Heads of State 199  Secularist Excesses 201  Notes 205  Bibliography 231  Index 241","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403717615959,"sku":"9780691088457","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691088457.jpg?v=1730484343","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/faces-of-the-state-9780691088457","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}