Islamist Mobilization in Turkey
Subtitle: A Study in Vernacular Politics (Studies in Modernity and National Identity)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780295982236
Subjects: Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Middle East - Turkey; Political Parties; Ethnography; Islamic studies; Political structure & processes; Anthropology - General; Middle East - General; 1980-; Islam and politics; Politics and government; Turkey
First sentence: In November 1997, people in living rooms and offices all over Turkey were hotly debating the seemingly inexorable progress of the Constitutional Court toward a decision to shut down Turkey's most prominent and successful Islam-based political party, the Welfare Party.
Description: "Jenny White has produced an ethnography of contemporary Istanbul that charts the success of Islamist mobilization through the eyes of ordinary people. Drawing on neighborhood interviews gathered over twenty years of fieldwork, she focuses intently on the genesis and continuing appeal of Islamic politics in the fabric of Turkish society and among mobilizing and mobilized elites, women, and educated populations.".

"To illuminate the local culture of Istanbul, White has interviewed residents, activists, party officials, and municipal administrators and participated in their activities. She draws on rich experiences and research made possible by years of firsthand observation in the streets and homes of Umraniye, a large neighborhood that grew in tandem with Turkey's modernization in the late twentieth century.

This book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and analysts of Islamic and Middle Eastern politics."--BOOK JACKET.