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Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical care—can I change, and
how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.Â
Can Islamism, as is often claimed, truly unite Muslim Turks and
Kurds in a discourse that supersedes ethnicity? This is a volatile
and exciting time for a country whose long history has been
characterized by dramatic power play. Evolving out of two years of
fieldwork in Istanbul, this book examines the fragmenting Islamist
political movement in Turkey. As Turkey emerges from a repressive
modernizing project, various political identities are emerging and
competing for influence. The Islamist movement celebrates the
failure of Western liberalism in Turkey and the return of politics
based on Muslim ideals. However, this vision is threatened by
Kurdish nationalism and the country's troubled past.
Is Islamist multiculturalism even possible? The ethnic tensions
surfacing in Turkey beg the question whether the Muslim Turks and
Kurds can find common ground in religion. Houston argues that such
unification depends fundamentally upon the flexibility of the
rationale behind the Islamist movement's struggle.
In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a
particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls
anthropocracy. In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies
de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to
stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the
while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine. In
distinguishing anthropocracy from varieties of other secular and
laicist political arrangements, as well as from theocracy, this
book also gives readers a brilliant solution to what it calls the
Turkish puzzle, the dilemma over how to best describe and analyze
state-religion and state-society relations in the Turkish Republic.
This work convincingly undermines two orthodox presumptions about
Turkish politics: the claim that Turkish modernity should be
considered an example of secularity; and the accusation that the
current AKP government should be interpreted as Islamic. On the
contrary, it argues that both Kemalism and the AKP continue to
institute an anthropocratic Republic.
Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical care—can I change, and
how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.Â
Can Islamism, as is often claimed, truly unite Muslim Turks and
Kurds in a discourse that supersedes ethnicity? This is a volatile
and exciting time for a country whose long history has been
characterized by dramatic power play. Evolving out of two years of
fieldwork in Istanbul, this book examines the fragmenting Islamist
political movement in Turkey. As Turkey emerges from a repressive
modernizing project, various political identities are emerging and
competing for influence. The Islamist movement celebrates the
failure of Western liberalism in Turkey and the return of politics
based on Muslim ideals. However, this vision is threatened by
Kurdish nationalism and the country's troubled past.
Is Islamist multiculturalism even possible? The ethnic tensions
surfacing in Turkey beg the question whether the Muslim Turks and
Kurds can find common ground in religion. Houston argues that such
unification depends fundamentally upon the flexibility of the
rationale behind the Islamist movement's struggle.
This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of
anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of
social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition
in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions
of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies.
The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in
anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most
influential—studies of sensory perception, emotion, bodiliness,
and intersubjectivity—into new areas of inquiry such as martial
arts, sports, dance, music, and political discourse.
Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the
Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of
civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after
the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal
reengineering of the city. Bringing together developments in
anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory,
Christopher Houston offers new insights into the meaning and study
of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics,
relations between political factions and ideologies, and political
memory and commemoration. This book is both a social history and an
anthropological study, investigating how activist practices and the
coup not only contributed to the globalization of Istanbul
beginning in the 1980s but also exerted their force and influence
into the future.
Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the
Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of
civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after
the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal
reengineering of the city. Bringing together developments in
anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory,
Christopher Houston offers new insights into the meaning and study
of urban violence, military rule, activism and spatial tactics,
relations between political factions and ideologies, and political
memory and commemoration. This book is both a social history and an
anthropological study, investigating how activist practices and the
coup not only contributed to the globalization of Istanbul
beginning in the 1980s but also exerted their force and influence
into the future.
This book provides a concise analysis of the making of Kurdistan,
its peoples, historical developments and cultural politics. Under
the Ottoman Empire Kurdistan was the name given to the autonomous
province in which the Kurdish princes ruled over a cosmopolitan
population. But re-mapping, wars and the growth of modern
nation-states have turned Kurdistan into an imagined homeland. The
Kurdish question is one that continually reappears on the
international stage because of the strategic location of Kurdistan.
In describing the ways in which Kurdistan and its history have been
represented and politicized, the author traces the vital role of
the nationalist States of Turkey, Iran and Iraq in the crafting of
political actors in the region.
This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of
anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of
social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition
in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions
of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies.
The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in
anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most
influential-studies of sensory perception, emotion, bodiliness, and
intersubjectivity-into new areas of inquiry such as martial arts,
sports, dance, music, and political discourse.
In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New
Zealand and Australia, contributors from a range of backgrounds
investigate the state of Muslim integration in New Zealand and
Australia. The growing presence of a Muslim minority has invited
these two Pacific settler states to closely consider the question
of Muslim integration into Western society. This collection
discusses the future of religio-cultural pluralism, multicultural
policies, and the growing demands for greater emphasis on
assimilation. Contributors examine issues such as parallel
societies, Islamophobia, radicalization, tolerance, adaptation and
mutual adjustment, legal pluralism, the role of mosque
architecture, and media depictions of Muslims are examined.
Recommended for scholars of anthropology, religious studies,
sociology, and political science.
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