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Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey - Governing Through Smoke (Hardcover)
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Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey - Governing Through Smoke (Hardcover)
Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
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The Convergence of Neoliberalism and Islam in Turkey critically
analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and
institutions from the West to Turkey and how they are being adopted
and transformed in their new Islamic settings through an
ethnographic investigation of the newly established tobacco market.
The February 2001 crisis, the most severe economic downturn in the
history of Turkey, generated an emergency situation in which a
series of sweeping neoliberal policies were implemented to prop up
the collapsed economy.To receive the necessary loans from the
international financial institutions, the Turkish government
hastily enacted a number of neoliberal laws, including the
notorious tobacco law. The book not only explores the repercussions
of the new tobacco law, such as the emergence of a new regulatory
institution, there making of a liberalized market, and the tobacco
workers' resistance to neoliberal reforms but also the smoking ban
governing the bodies and spaces of the Muslim citizens.Although the
enacted law and smoking ban aimed to comply with requirements set
out by the European Union, which Turkey is seeking to join, the
strict and fast implementation of the law also united with the
Islamic-rooted government's distaste for tobacco and alcohol
consumption. This analysis of the governance of
healthy/good/obedient Muslim citizens though the smoking-ban in
Turkey provides an innovative contribution to Middle-Eastern
studies, filling the gap for anthropological research in Muslim
countries on local economic relations and their connections with
the global econom
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