Remaking Politics, Markets and Citizens in Turkey

Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey critically analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and institutions from the West to Turkey. Through an ethnographic investigation of the newly established tobacco market, Ebru Kayaalp considers how they are being adopted and transformed in their new settings.The February 2001 crisis, the most severe economic downturn in the history of Turkey, generated an emergency situation in which a series of sweeping neoliberal policies were implemented to prop up the collapsed economy. To receive the necessary loans from the international financial institutions, the Turkish government hastily enacted a number of neoliberal laws, including the notorious tobacco law. Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey not only explores the repercussions of the new tobacco law, such as the establishment of a new regulatory institution, the emergence of contract farming and the privatization of the tobacco monopoly, thereby making a liberalized market, but also the smoking ban governing the bodies and spaces of Muslim citizens. Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey provides an innovative contribution to Middle Eastern studies, filling the gap for anthropological research in Muslim countries on local economic relations and their connections with the global economy.

Product details

• Authors: Ebru Kayaalp, Ebru (Istanbul Sehir University Kayaalp, Kayaalp Ebru
• Assisted by: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Editor), Lucian Stone (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781472508737
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-0873-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought; Suspensions: Contemporary Midd; Suspensions: Contemporary Midd; Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Turkey, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities