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Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, 'Fragments of Culture' presents exciting new writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. From adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item to the media explosion of interest in Turkish transsexual lifestyle to the strained cross-class relations between comfortably-off apartment tenants and their more humble doorkeepers,'Fragments of Culture' focuses on the diversity of contemporary Turkish l

Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender.