Contesting Pluralism(s)
Contesting Pluralism(s)
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GBPContesting Pluralism(s) challenges a widespread tendency to limit studies of Turkish – and Muslim – politics to 'Islamist vs. secularist' or 'Islam vs. democracy' debates. Instead, Nora Fisher-Onar's innovative argument centers on coalitions for and against pluralism. Retelling Turkey's story from the late Ottoman Empire to the present as a tale of pluralizing vs. anti-pluralist coalitions, this book offers an alternative explanation for major outcomes from elections and coup d'etats to revolutions. Here, cross-camp alliances pit those who are willing to coexist with 'Other(s)' against those who champion a unitary, national project in which everyone speaks, believes, looks, and loves as they do. Drawing on a rich array of primary and secondary data, Fisher-Onar introduces an analytical framework for capturing causal complexity in political contestation. This study rejects Orientalist exceptionalism, rereading the relationship between political religion, pluralism, and populism via a framework that travels across and beyond the Muslim-majority world.
- Provides an original and timely understanding of Turkey's politics which challenges the dominance of 'Islamist vs. secularist' debates
- Offers a re-reading of 200 years of Turkey's political history from the late Ottoman period to the present
- Introduces an accessible analytical framework with which to capture causal complexity in political contestation in and beyond the Muslim-majority world
Product details
January 2025Hardback
9781108838702
346 pages
236 × 159 × 25 mm
0.64kg
Available
Table of Contents
- By Way of Introduction: Capturing Complexity, Contesting Pluralism
- Part I. Theory:
- 1. Hard Binaries and their discontents
- 2. Pluralizers and anti-pluralists-an alternative key to Politics in Turkey and beyond
- Part II. History:
- 3. Long Nineteenth Century-from Ottoman Universalism to Turkish nationalism
- 4. Short Twentieth Century-between embedded liberalism and ethno (-religious) nationalism
- Part III. Twenty-First Century:
- 5. EU-niversalism, the Islamo-liberal moment, and nationalist backlash
- 6. Neo-Ottomanism-from pluralizing promise to religious populism
- 7. Turkey turns-of clashing Islamists, contesting kurds, and a coup attempt
- 8. Turkish-Islamist synthesis 2.0 and the new pluralizers
- Conclusion: Learning from Turkey's transformation–lessons for (comparative) area studies, politics, and International relations
- Index.
