商品簡介
Islamism in Turkey has been undergoing a significant transformation of rationalization and partial secularization that has been the result of the mobilization of broad sectors under the banner of radicalizing Islam, the subsequent defeat of radicalism, and the radicals' internalized strategic change after the defeat. So argues Tugal (sociology, U. of California at Berkeley), who details this process in Istanbul's district of Sultanbeyli, previously a stronghold of radicals, and relates the change to the fortunes of the recently established conservative party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He employs the Gramscian concept of "passive revolution" in order to analyze the process whereby popular sectors are mobilized with revolutionary discourses and strategies only to reinforce existing patterns of domination. In the case of the Islamist passive revolution, erstwhile radicals and their followers have been brought into the fold of neoliberalism, secularism, and Western hegemony. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Cihan Tugal is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
