Yildiz Atasoy, Islam's Marriage with Neo-Liberalism: State Transformation in Turkey

Yildiz Atasoy, Islam's Marriage with Neo-Liberalism: State Transformation in Turkey

Formats Available

.PDF

The transformation of the Turkish state is examined here in the context of globalized frames of neo-liberal capitalism and contemporary schemas of Islamic politics. It shows how the historical emergence of two distinct yet intertwined imaginaries of state structuring, laiklik and Islam, continues to influence Turkish politics today.

Yildiz Atasoy, Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalisation in a Muslim State

Yildiz Atasoy, Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalisation in a Muslim State

Formats Available

.PDF

This book examines Islam's engagement with the reorganization of the global economy. By examining the incorporation of Islam into the existing relations of the Turkish state from the late Ottoman Empire to the present day, the author demonstrates how political Islam interacts with the global restructuring of classes, states and political actors. Atasoy challenges the view of Islamist politics as an anti-Modern, anti-Western force that is fundamentally opposed to the global economy and instead argues that political Islam is cosmopolitan and embedded in processes which incorporate Western modernity into local cultural practices.