Inventing Laziness - The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a way to understanding emerging civic culture in the Ottoman Empire.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Moralizing productivity in the age of reform; 2. Criminalizing laziness: Punishment, reward, and negotiation in the Ottoman bureaus; 3. Imagining Ottoman dandies and industrious effendis; 4. Militarizing the productive body; 5. Exclusionism at work: Politics, power, and productivity; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Melis Hafez is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a PhD from the Department of History, UCLA. Her scholarship spans late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, with a focus on social and cultural transformations.

Product details

• Authors: Melis Hafez, Melis (Virginia Commonwealth University) Hafez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781108448215
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44821-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ottoman Empire, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Society and culture: general, Population & demography, Population and Demography