Globalization, civil society and islam: the question of democracy in Turkey

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dc.citation.epage230en_US
dc.citation.spage207en_US
dc.contributor.authorKeyman, E. Fuaten_US
dc.contributor.editorJenson, J.
dc.contributor.editorSantos, Boaventura de Sousa
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:09:16Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:09:16Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.descriptionChapter 8
dc.description.abstractThis chapter provides a critical analysis of the ambivalent nature of the present by focusing on one specific case where it has taken the form of "the dilemma of cultural identity on the margin of Europe," namely the Turkish social formation. Islamic discourse acted successfully as an articulating principle of resistance to such uncertainty by identifying ambivalence with global modernity and certainty with community, that is, with a turn to religion. This paradox that characterizes the double-gesture of Islamic discourse as acting both for and against pluralism indicates that it would be mistaken to take for granted the shift towards civil society as a given and an unproblematic space that provides the foundational ground for democratization. The present conjuncture of the Turkish political landscape is based upon a clash between the discourses of progress, secularism, and Reason and the discourses of traditionalism and anti-secularism.
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315194943
dc.identifier.isbn9781351762571
dc.identifier.isbn9781138720824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50453
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.relation.ispartofGlobalizing institutions: case studies in regulation and innovation
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315194943
dc.subjectKemalist Nationalism
dc.subjectKemalist elite
dc.subjectTurkish political landscape
dc.subjectSecular National identity
dc.subjectPost-1980 coup period
dc.subjectModern Turkey
dc.subjectTurkish modernization
dc.subjectKemalist idea
dc.subjectIslamic identity
dc.titleGlobalization, civil society and islam: the question of democracy in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US
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