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Book SynopsisAn important contribution to the expanding literature on everyday politics
Trade Review"This accessible, lively, and engaging work features 12 essays by American, British, and Canadian political science professors."
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"This accessible, lively, and engaging work features 12 essays by American, British, and Canadian political science professors. . . Each essay works individually to illustrate and interrogate the theoretical argument by providing specific examples, and could thus work well as an introduction to this literature for undergraduate or graduate students as well as policy makers. . . .Highly recommended."
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Table of ContentsForeword
Joel S. Migdal
Introduction: A State-in-Society Agenda
Adam White
PART ONE The Everyday Life of the Turkish State
1. Seeing the State: Kinship Networks and Kurdish Resistance in Early Republican Turkey
Ceren Belge
2. Rethinking Turkish State-Kurdish Relations
Nicole F. Watts
3. Stat-Society Relations and Religious Freedom: The United States, France, and Turkey
Ahmet T. Kuru
4. Prison as a Space of State-Society Contestation: The Case of Turkish F-Type Prisons
Arda Ibikoglu
PART TWO The Everyday life of the Israeli State
5. Nationalism Complete: The Boundaries of Arab Political Participation in Israel
Maha El-Taji Daghash
6. Nation Building and Regulation of Pluri-legal Jurisdictions: The Case of the Israeli Millet System
Yuksel Sezgin
7. Collaborating with the Image of the State, Resisting Its Practices, or Both? Israeli Jewish Women's Political Activism
Lauren L. Basson
8. The Politics of Fracture: Identity, Difference, and Fissures in the Image of the Singular, Unified Israeli State
Patricia J. Woods
PART THREE The Everyday Life of the State in Asia and North Africa
9. Revelation and Redemption: Colonial Precedents for the Politics of Islam and Malaysia
Iza Hussin
10. (Re)Creating Democracy through Practice: Insights from the Japanese Experience
Mary Alice Haddad
11. Negotiating National Identity: Berber Activism and the Moroccan State
Senem Aslan
12. Challenging the Practice of the State, but Beholden to Its Image: Women's Activists, Academics, and the Public Take on Egypt's Citizenship Laws
Pamela J. Stumpo
Conclusion
Benjamin Smith
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
