"Faces of the State" is a penetrating study of the production of
a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s
Turkey. In this new contribution to the anthropology of the state,
Yael Navaro-Yashin brings recent poststructuralist and
psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political.
Delving deeper than studies of nationalist discourse that would
focus on consciously articulated narratives of political identity,
the author explores sites of "fantasy" in the public-political
domain of Istanbul.
The book focuses on the conflict over secularism in the
aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities. In
contrast with studies that would problematize and objectify
religious movements, the author examines the agency of secularists
under a state widely known for its "secularist" policies. The
complexity and dynamism of the context studied moves well beyond
scholarly distinctions between "secularity" and "religion," as well
as "state" and "society." Here, secularism and Islamism emerge as
different guises for a culture of statism where people from
"society" compete to claim "Turkish culture" for themselves and
their life practices. With this work that stretches the boundaries
of regionalism, the author situates her anthropological study of
Turkey not only in scholarship on the Middle East, but also in the
broader problem of thinking "Europe" anew.
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