Suchergebnisse

Generosity as an alternative : is giving a challenge to the market logic? -- The genealogy of Islamic and Christian ethics : from renunciation and redistribution to interdependence -- The world-historical revolution in ethics : the dismantling of interdependence and the rise of the liberal subject -- Comprehensive religion : communitarian associations in Egypt -- Mobilizing volunteers on rocky terrain : neoliberal benevolence in Egypt -- Walking the tightrope between professionalism and teblig : Turkey's neoliberal associations -- Punching above their weight : Turkey's communitarian and redistributive associations -- Conclusion : combined and uneven liberalization.

The political upheavals of the Arab Spring and electoral victories of Islamist parties have brought a resurgence of talk about the 'Turkish model' -- a template that 'effectively integrates Islam, democracy and vibrant economics', according to a gushing New York Times article last year, which hailed Recep Tayyip Erdogan as 'perhaps the Middle East's most influential figure'. Adapted from the source document.

Essay in a symposium on Erik Olin Wright's book Envisioning Real Utopias (London and New York, NY: Verso, 2010). Adapted from the source document.

The transformation of urban space constitutes one of the most dynamic aspects of the Islamist movement. Prevalent models have accounted for this phenomenon by referring to the rural immigrants' capacity for autonomous network building or their creative subjectivities. This article analyzes Islamization by studying the interactions between Islamists and the residents in a poor district in Istanbul. It demonstrates not only that the urban poor are indeed active in forming communities and subjectivities but also that their agency is shaped (and ultimately absorbed) by the Islamist project. It is Islamism as political practice and not solely the dynamism of civil society that lies at the root of the city's religious transformation. Nevertheless, Islamism becomes influential because it is able to link civil society and urban subjectivity to its project. These arguments are based on a two-year-long ethnography and fifty interviews.

Describes the growth of Istanbul, Turkey, as a world city & the contradictions posed by urbanism & entrepreneurialism vs. environmentalism. The transformation of the postimperial city over the past 20 years by squatters from the Turkish countryside, who now make up well over half of the population, is described, along with the impact they have had on municipal politics. The market-oriented Islamization of the city & struggles over the path of urban development between the Justice & Development Party (AKP) & the Islamist Welfare Party (RP) are examined; the role of the military & tourism in shaping development is also considered. Ways that ethnic & environmental tensions surrounding development are being compounded by recent economic downturns are also explored. Adapted from the source document.