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Political Science Globalization

Turkey, Islamists and Democracy

Transition and Globalisation in a Muslim State

by (author) Yildiz Atasoy

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Initial publish date
Oct 2005
Category
Globalization
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781850437581
    Publish Date
    Oct 2005
    List Price
    $132

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This book examines Islam's engagement with the reorganization of the global economy. By examining the incorporation of Islam into the existing relations of the Turkish state from the late Ottoman Empire to the present day, the author demonstrates how political Islam interacts with the global restructuring of classes, states and political actors. Atasoy challenges the view of Islamist politics as an anti-Modern, anti-Western force that is fundamentally opposed to the global economy and instead argues that political Islam is cosmopolitan and embedded in processes which incorporate Western modernity into local cultural practices.

About the author

Yildiz Atasoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. She specializes in transnational political economy, political sociology, and gender relations.

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