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This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the
Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It departs from
'neighbourhoods' to consider identity, coexistence, solidarity, and
violence in relations to a place. Urban Neighbourhood Formations
revolves around three major aspects of making and unmaking of
neighbourhoods: spatial and temporal boundaries of neighbourhoods,
neighbourhoods as imagined and narrated entities, and neighbourhood
as social relations. With extensive case studies from Johannesburg
to Istanbul and from Jerusalem to Delhi, this volume shows how
spatial amenities, immaterial processes of narrating and dreaming,
and the lasting effect of intimacies and violence in a
neighbourhood are intertwined and negotiated over time in the
construction of moral orders, urban practices, and political
identities at large. This book offers insights into neighbourhood
formations in an age of constant mobility and helps us understand
the grassroots-level dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much
as welcoming and openness. It would be of interest for both
academics and more general audiences, as well as for students of
undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies and
Anthropology.
The welfare regime in Turkey has been undergoing a radical
transformation since the early 2000s. Welfare provisions,
especially poverty alleviation schemes, are increasingly framed as
gifts, and select civil society organisations have assumed the
state’s welfare provision functions through non-transparent
public funding. Waqf, the Islamic institution of endowment, has
played an important role in this transformation. It provides both
the institutional frame of operations and the religious imaginary
signification that interpellates subjects to take part as givers
and receivers of gifts. This material exchange of care and money
through newly configured gift-relations between the providers and
beneficiaries constitutes not only a realm of politics but also a
site of ethical negotiations with embodied consequences. This book
is based on an extensive ethnographic study conducted between
2008-2009 among the charitable organizations of Kayseri, a central
Anatolian city with booming industry and a majority conservative
political orientation. A stronghold of the Justice and Development
Party (AKP), which has been in power in Turkey since 2002, the city
has showcased the tenets of the welfare transformation that is to
come, even in the early stages of AKP rule. With a focus on the
daily practices within the field of beneficence, the book
investigates the gift circuits that bring together central state
institutions, municipalities, local notables and business people,
religious groups, volunteers and employers of charitable
organisations, and the urban poor. In these gift circuits, objects,
money, services, prayers, recognition, and political and social
influence flow in various directions through formal and informal
routes. The book illustrates the growing significance of these
particular forms of gift-giving in the field of poverty alleviation
and welfare provision in Turkey and their role in the drastic
political transformation of the country.
This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the
Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It departs from
'neighbourhoods' to consider identity, coexistence, solidarity, and
violence in relations to a place. Urban Neighbourhood Formations
revolves around three major aspects of making and unmaking of
neighbourhoods: spatial and temporal boundaries of neighbourhoods,
neighbourhoods as imagined and narrated entities, and neighbourhood
as social relations. With extensive case studies from Johannesburg
to Istanbul and from Jerusalem to Delhi, this volume shows how
spatial amenities, immaterial processes of narrating and dreaming,
and the lasting effect of intimacies and violence in a
neighbourhood are intertwined and negotiated over time in the
construction of moral orders, urban practices, and political
identities at large. This book offers insights into neighbourhood
formations in an age of constant mobility and helps us understand
the grassroots-level dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much
as welcoming and openness. It would be of interest for both
academics and more general audiences, as well as for students of
undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies and
Anthropology.
In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has
introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted
family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive
and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were
newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first
book to examine the various ways neoliberal modes of governing
women's bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian
measures. The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and
sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental
interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include:
the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of
gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor
and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's
multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the
book presents analytical tools applicable under rising
authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.
In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has
introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted
family and gender policies. Women’s central role in reproductive
and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were
newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first
book to examine the various ways neoliberal modes of governing
women’s bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian
measures. The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and
sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental
interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include:
the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of
gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor
and ethnic minority women’s fertility/sexuality, and women’s
multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the
book presents analytical tools applicable under rising
authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.
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