Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey

A Critical Reading
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-50874-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 305 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Reihe: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe

This book provides a meta-reading of how ethnographic discourses on women and Islam in Turkey have changed since their emergence in 1983. It analyses the published ethnographic works in three discursive periods and shows that paradigm shifts in social sciences, processes of neo-liberal globalization and globalization of Islamism as well as political, social, cultural and economic transformations at the local level shape these periods. As an exceptional example of modernization in the Middle East and the post-imperial states in South-East Europe, Turkey has been experiencing tensions between Islamic beliefs and practices and Westernization and secularization processes. Countless aspects of Muslim women’s lives appear as symbols and indicators in this society like in many other Muslim majority societies and to scholars of gender and women’s studies in discussing the faith-based patriarchy. Thus, this book exhibits the necessity of developing a critical perspective on ethnographic representations of Muslim women in Turkey.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Onur, Petek

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Studying Muslim Women in Ethnographic Discourse—A Background.- Chapter 2. Paradigms, Approaches, Issues, Challenges.- Chapter 3. Islam and the Traditional Gender Hierarchy: 1983–1992.- Chapter 4. Approaching the New Islamist Women: 1994–2006.- Chapter 5. Women in the AKP Years, 2007–2021: Conservative Politics and Neoliberalism.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Petek Onur is an assistant professor at University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. She was a Marie-Curie fellow at the same department in 2020-2022 and postdoctoral researcher at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies in 2023-2024.