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1 online resource |
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Suspensions. Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought |
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Suspensions. Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought
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| Contents |
FC ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; The visible hands; Commodity; Belatedness; Outline; Part I. Politics ; 1. Travel of Experts, Policies, and Institutions ; Technocrat as a superman; (Re)making the law; Good governance, bad governance; Framing the economy; Emerging institutions; 2. Opening the Black Box of Law ; The Tobacco Law; A gift to the IMF; A meeting in the Turkish Assembly; 3. Policy in the Making ; Regulating under uncertainty; Conflict I: Machines and reports; Conflict II: Tax and blends; Assessment; Part II. Markets |
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4. Remaking the Tobacco Market Counting tobacco bales as votes; The representation of the oversupply; Framing tobacco; 200 kilograms of tobacco; Dispossessed citizens; 5. Borders of the Market ; Complicit state; Outside the market; Western tobacco market; Eastern tobacco market; Part III. Citizens ; 6. Neoliberalism, Citizenship, and Resistance ; Privatization of TEKEL; Providing "hizmet"; Different citizenships; Workers and the "people"; 7. Making Healthy Good Citizens ; Oriental tobacco cigarettes; New public health; Purification of bodies; Healthy non-smoking Muslims |
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8. Smoking Tobacco, Speaking Nationalism Régie; Germans; Jews; Americans; Communists; Conclusion; Ethnographic questions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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<I style=""font-family: verdana, tahoma; font-size: 10px;"">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 coll |
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Print version record |
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Financial crises -- Turkey
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Tobacco industry -- Turkey
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Islamic life & practice.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Comparative politics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Economic history
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Financial crises
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Tobacco industry
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Turkey -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138792
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Turkey
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472509413 |
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1472509412 |
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9781472511997 |
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1472511999 |
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