Grasp Islamist Mobilization In Turkey: A Study In Vernacular Politics Portrayed By Jenny B. White Depicted In Electronic Format

you are interested in Turkey, political Islam or in general how populist movements are so popular all over the world, I recommend reading this book, Es un estudio antropológico muy interesante y completo sobre la movilización islamista en Turquía, Intenta explicar desde esta óptica la clave del éxito de los partidos que antecedieron al AKP, que ahora gobierna en Turquía, Lo más interesante sin duda es todo lo relacionado con el papel de la mujer en la sociedad turca en general y en los partidos islamistas en particular.


Honestly I'm just reading this to feel smart, Excellent anthropologicalpolitical review of Turkeys Islamist movement Winner of the William A, Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology

The emergence

of an Islamist movement and the startling buoyancy of Islamic political parties in Turkeya model of secular modernization, a cosmopolitan frontier, and NATO allyhas puzzled Western observers.
As the appeal of the Islamist Welfare Party spread through Turkish society, including the middle class, in thes, the party won numerous local elections and became one of the largest parties represented in parliament, even holding the prime ministership inand.
Welfare was formally banned and closed in, and its successor, Virtue, was banned in, for allegedly posing a threat to the state, but the Islamist movement continues to grow in popularity.


Jenny White has produced an ethnography of contemporary Istanbul that charts the success of Islamist mobilization through the eyes of ordinary people, Drawing on neighborhood interviews gathered over twenty years of fieldwork, she focuses intently on the genesis and continuing appeal of Islamic politics in the fabric of Turkish society and among mobilizing and mobilized elites, women, and educated populations.


White shows how everyday concerns and interpersonal relations, rather than Islamic dogma, helped Welfare gain access to community networks, building on continuing facetoface relationships by way of interactions with constituents through trusted neighbors.
She argues that Islamic political networks are based on cultural understandings of relationships, duties, and trust, She also illustrates how Islamic activists have sustained cohesion despite contradictory agendas and beliefs, and how civic organizations, through local relationships, have ensured the autonomy of these networks from the national political organizations in whose service they appear to act.


To illuminate the local culture of Istanbul, White has interviewed residents, activists, party officials, and municipal administrators and participated in their activities, She draws on rich experiences and research made possible by years of firsthand observation in the streets and homes of Umraniye, a large neighborhood that grew in tandem with Turkey's modernization in the lateth century.
This book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and analysts of Islamic and Middle Eastern politics, .