‘Rejecting the Legacy, Restoring the Honor’: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey
Post-Islamism as coined by Asef Bayat in 1996 laid the framework to analyze rapid and fundamental changes in social and political life of the Muslim world. However, this paper argues that the scholarship around post-Islamism disregards neoliberal structuration introduced and expanded by post-Islamis...
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| description | Post-Islamism as coined by Asef Bayat in 1996 laid the framework to analyze rapid and fundamental changes in social and political life of the Muslim world. However, this paper argues that the scholarship around post-Islamism disregards neoliberal structuration introduced and expanded by post-Islamist parties and movements (such as the Justice and Development Party of Turkey). This structuration, coupled with the legacies of anti-left sentiments in preceding Islamist movements, stifles the Muslim youth in the region whose frustrations and aspirations are left silenced. Based on my ethnographic study between 2013 and 2017, the paper introduces the group of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey as an internal challenge to the legacies of Islamist ideologies and the neoliberal politics of post-Islamism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94cd66652db04cab9cbf3d7c639ece4c2023-11-20T21:39:53ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442020-11-01111162110.3390/rel11110621‘Rejecting the Legacy, Restoring the Honor’: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in TurkeyAyca Tomac0Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, CanadaPost-Islamism as coined by Asef Bayat in 1996 laid the framework to analyze rapid and fundamental changes in social and political life of the Muslim world. However, this paper argues that the scholarship around post-Islamism disregards neoliberal structuration introduced and expanded by post-Islamist parties and movements (such as the Justice and Development Party of Turkey). This structuration, coupled with the legacies of anti-left sentiments in preceding Islamist movements, stifles the Muslim youth in the region whose frustrations and aspirations are left silenced. Based on my ethnographic study between 2013 and 2017, the paper introduces the group of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey as an internal challenge to the legacies of Islamist ideologies and the neoliberal politics of post-Islamism.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/11/621Islamismpost-Islamismanti-capitalismsolidarityyouth movements |
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| title | ‘Rejecting the Legacy, Restoring the Honor’: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey |
| title_full | ‘Rejecting the Legacy, Restoring the Honor’: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey |
| title_fullStr | ‘Rejecting the Legacy, Restoring the Honor’: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey |
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| title_short | ‘Rejecting the Legacy, Restoring the Honor’: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey |
| title_sort | rejecting the legacy restoring the honor the anti capitalist muslims in turkey |
| topic | Islamism post-Islamism anti-capitalism solidarity youth movements |
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