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Alev inar's examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular nationalism, explores modernity through daily practices and the social construction of identity and political agency in relation to nationalism, secularism, and Islam. Using local details and debatesincluding an intriguing discussion of veilinginar reveals modernity as a transformative intervention in bodies, places, and times

Alev inar's examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular nationalism, explores modernity through daily practices and the social construction of identity and political agency in relation to nationalism, secularism, and Islam. Using local details and debatesincluding an intriguing discussion of veilinginar reveals modernity as a transformative intervention in bodies, places, and times.

"For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in [this book] respond to this condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this space is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries offers case studies on cities in Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and India, as well as in the United States and France, and in doing so blends social, cultural, and political approaches to better understand the contemporary urban experience."--Publisher description, from p. [4] of cover

""Contents""; ""Introduction. Religious Nationalism as a Consequence of Secularism -- Alev Ã?inar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya ""; ""Part 1: Performances ""; ""1. Subversion and Subjugation in the Public Sphere: Secularism and the Islamic Headscarf in Turkey -- Alev Ã?inar ""; ""2. Islamic Visibilities, Intimacies, and Counter Publics in the Secular Public Sphere -- Buket TÃ?rkmen""; ""3. Mirrors of Emancipation: Images of Sovereignty and Exile in the Balmiki Ramayana -- Usha Zacharias