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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818030103321

Autore

Kayaalp Ebru

Titolo

Remaking politics, markets, and citizens in Turkey : governing through smoke / / Ebru Kayaalp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015

ISBN

1-4725-1199-9

1-4742-9600-9

1-4725-9458-4

1-4725-0941-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Suspensions : contemporary middle eastern and islamicate thought

Classificazione

REL037030SOC002010

Disciplina

322.109561

338.9561

Soggetti

Islam - Turkey

Religion and politics - Turkey

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I: Politics. 1. Travel of Experts, Policies and Institutions -- 2. Opening the Black Box of Law -- 3. Policy in the Making -- Part II: Markets. 4. Remaking the Tobacco Market -- 5. Borders or the Market -- Part III: Citizens. 6. Neoliberalism, Citizenship and Resistance -- 7. Making Healthy Good Citizens -- 8. Smoking Tobacco, Speaking Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.