Utku Baris Balaban: Industrial Islamism, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

"An excellent work which explains in an illuminating and productive way the social and economic as well as historical conditions for the rise of Islamism in Turkish society and politics in the 1990s and since."--Christine Philliou, author of Turkey: A Past Against History

"Balaban's book is a groundbreaking reconstruction of the theory of Islamism based on statistics, childhood memories from a poor neighborhood, participant observation in sweatshops, interviews, and conceptual rigor. A rare combination of quantitative expertise, ethnographic texture, and theoretical imagination."--Cihan Tuğal, author of The Fall of the Turkish Model

"Utku Balaban's Industrial Islamism challenges the idea that Islamism rose up in opposition to Western culture and society. Combining an outstanding theoretical analysis with vivid ethnographic research, which he conducted in Turkey, Balaban illustrates the ways this political movement has facilitated global capitalism while it has systematically undermined secular democracies in Muslim-majority countries."--Judith Friedlander, author of A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile

"Utku Balaban's Industrial Islamism is a meticulously researched and wonderfully provocative rethinking of the origins and dynamics of Islamist politics. While focused on Turkey, it develops a set of insights about the entanglement of class and Islam that have far-reaching implications for making political sense of the wider region. Drawing on statistical data, historical evidence, and ethnographic and personal experience, Industrial Islamism offers a much-needed and highly original intervention into a set of debates that have long needed a fresh perspective."--Christopher Dole, author of Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey