Remaking Politics, Markets and Citizens in Turkey

Name: Remaking Politics, Markets and Citizens in Turkey
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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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 collapsed economy. To receive the necessary loans from the international financial institutions, the Turkish government hastily enacted a number of neoliberal laws, including the notorious tobacco law. Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey not only explores the repercussions of the new tobacco law, such as the establishment of a new regulatory institution, the emergence of contract farming and the privatization of the tobacco monopoly, thereby making a liberalized market, but also the smoking ban governing the bodies and spaces of Muslim citizens. Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey provides an innovative contribution to Middle Eastern studies, filling the gap for anthropological research in Muslim countries on local economic relations and their connections with the global economy.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 232
Release Date:: 2014-12-18
Publication Date:: 2014-12-18
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1472508734
ISBN13:: 9781472508737
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 517 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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