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The Never Ending Dance: Islamism, Kemalism and the Power of Self-institution in Turkey
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Kemalism in Turkey is often presented as an exemplary case of paternalistic and authoritarian modernisation from above, and lauded or condemned for that very reason. Represented in these terms, certain analytic and political binaries are also activated: state versus society; world-view versus life-world; universality versus particularity; inauthenticity versus indigeneity; homogeneity versus heterogeneity/ resistance. By contrast, in this paper I seek to sidestep these organising categories t...
