Introduction : standards and their tinkering -- Training bureaucrats, practicing for Europe -- Human rights, good governance, and professional expertise -- Human rights education and adult learning -- Translation and the limits of state language -- Dramas of statehood and bureaucratic ambiguity -- Conclusion : of fragments and violations
Summary
Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies shows how government workers encounter human rights rhetoric through training programs and articulates the perils and promises of these encounters for the subjects and objects of Turkish governance
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2019)
