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Street-Level Governing - Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey (Paperback)
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Street-Level Governing - Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey (Paperback)
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey,
hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative
hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not
always associate them with the central government. Street-Level
Governing is the first book to investigate how muhtars carry out
their role-not only what they are supposed to do, but how they
actually operate-to provide an ethnographic study of the state as
viewed from its margins. It starts from the premise that the
seeming "margin" of state administration is not peripheral at all,
but instructive as to how it functions. As Elise Massicard shows,
muhtars exist at the intersection of everyday life and the exercise
of power. Their position offers a personalized point of contact
between citizens and state institutions, enabling close oversight
of the citizenry, yet simultaneously projecting the sense of an
accessible state to individuals. Challenging common theories of the
state, Massicard outlines how the position of the muhtar throws
into question an assumed dichotomy between domination and social
resistance, and suggests that considerations of circumvention and
accommodation are normal attributes of state-society functioning.
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