The reckoning of pluralism : political belonging and the demands of history in Turkey /
Tambar, Kabir,
The reckoning of pluralism : political belonging and the demands of history in Turkey / Kabir Tambar. - 1 online resource (viii, 218 pages) - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures . - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
In the time of pluralism -- Disciplines of the parable -- Anatolian modern -- Incitements to visibility -- Pedagogies of history -- The morality of mourning.
The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism centers on the case of Turkey's Alevi community, a sizeable Muslim minority in a Sunni majority state. Alevis have seen their loyalty to the state questioned and experienced sectarian hostility, and yet their community is also championed by state ideologues as bearers of the nation's folkloric heritage. Kabir Tambar offers a critical appraisal of the tensions of democratic pluralism. Rather than portraying pluralism as a governing ideal that loosens restrictions on minorities, he focuses on the forms of social inequality that it perpetuates and on the political vulnerabilities to which minority communities are thereby exposed. Alevis today are often summoned by political officials to publicly display their religious traditions, but pluralist tolerance extends only so far as these performances will validate rather than disturb historical ideologies of national governance and identity. Focused on the inherent ambivalence of this form of political incorporation, Tambar ultimately explores the intimate coupling of modern political belonging and violence, of political inclusion and domination, contained within the practices of pluralism.
9780804791182 (electronic bk.) 080479118X (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Nosairians--Turkey.
Religious minorities--Turkey.
Religious pluralism--Political aspects--Turkey.
Islamic sects--Turkey.
Islam and state--Turkey.
Nationalism--Turkey.
Secularism--Turkey.
Cultural pluralism--Turkey.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Political Advocacy.
Cultural pluralism.
Islam and state.
Islamic sects.
Nationalism.
Nosairians.
Religious minorities.
Secularism.
Turkey.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DR435.N67 / T36 2014eb
322/.109561
The reckoning of pluralism : political belonging and the demands of history in Turkey / Kabir Tambar. - 1 online resource (viii, 218 pages) - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures . - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
In the time of pluralism -- Disciplines of the parable -- Anatolian modern -- Incitements to visibility -- Pedagogies of history -- The morality of mourning.
The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism centers on the case of Turkey's Alevi community, a sizeable Muslim minority in a Sunni majority state. Alevis have seen their loyalty to the state questioned and experienced sectarian hostility, and yet their community is also championed by state ideologues as bearers of the nation's folkloric heritage. Kabir Tambar offers a critical appraisal of the tensions of democratic pluralism. Rather than portraying pluralism as a governing ideal that loosens restrictions on minorities, he focuses on the forms of social inequality that it perpetuates and on the political vulnerabilities to which minority communities are thereby exposed. Alevis today are often summoned by political officials to publicly display their religious traditions, but pluralist tolerance extends only so far as these performances will validate rather than disturb historical ideologies of national governance and identity. Focused on the inherent ambivalence of this form of political incorporation, Tambar ultimately explores the intimate coupling of modern political belonging and violence, of political inclusion and domination, contained within the practices of pluralism.
9780804791182 (electronic bk.) 080479118X (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Nosairians--Turkey.
Religious minorities--Turkey.
Religious pluralism--Political aspects--Turkey.
Islamic sects--Turkey.
Islam and state--Turkey.
Nationalism--Turkey.
Secularism--Turkey.
Cultural pluralism--Turkey.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Political Advocacy.
Cultural pluralism.
Islam and state.
Islamic sects.
Nationalism.
Nosairians.
Religious minorities.
Secularism.
Turkey.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DR435.N67 / T36 2014eb
322/.109561