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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
Film archives are fast spreading around the world, and with them
issues surrounding archival digitisation, artistic appropriation,
and academic reinterpretation of film material that demand
scholarly attention. Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age:
Reinventing the Archive aims to fill this demand with a
thought-provoking collection of original articles contributed by
renowned scholars, archivists, and artists. It urges the reader to
“forget” standard ways of thinking about film archives and come
to grips with the challenges of analysing and recontextualising an
area in transit from the analogue to the digital. The book not only
throws light on unexplored issues related to film archives but also
introduces unconventional approaches and alternative sources for
scholarly research and a vast range of artistic possibilities.
Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey critically
analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and
institutions from the West to Turkey. Through an ethnographic
investigation of the newly established tobacco market, Ebru Kayaalp
considers how they are being adopted and transformed in their new
settings. 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. Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens
in Turkey not only explores the repercussions of the new tobacco
law, such as the establishment of a new regulatory institution, the
emergence of contract farming and the privatization of the tobacco
monopoly, thereby making a liberalized market, but also the smoking
ban governing the bodies and spaces of Muslim citizens. Remaking
Politics, Markets, and Citizens 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 economy.
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