Esra Tunc
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esra Tunc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esra |
| FAMILY NAME | Tunc |
| SIGNATURE | TUNC E |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Navigating Uses of Muslim Technologies in Technocapitalist Systems
Muslim engagements with new technologies have often centered on the question of the benefits of such technologies to the community within broader ethical and legal frameworks. This article contends that such benefits are not a self-evident quality of technologies, given their embeddedness in particular political-economic systems. Focusing on the technologies that undergird US-based, Muslim-led investment- and giving-oriented organizations, the ar…
Authority and the Geographies of U.S. Muslim Economies
Economies of Survival and the Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam, one of the largest and most controversial Black movements of the mid-twentieth century, promoted a philosophy of economic self-help and started businesses to this end. Its economic practices of the 1960s and 1970s have often been interpreted in connection to capitalism, whether Black, entrepreneurial, or cooperative. Examining the writings and speeches of members and allies of the Nation of Islam between 1960 and 1975, this a…
Editor’s Introduction on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism
CAPITALIST HUMANITARIANISM. By Lucia Hulsether. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. ix-248. Paper, $26.95. Fair-trade, microfinance, and impact investing. These are some of the market solutions plutocrats, and well-meaning entrepreneurs promote as more socially just forms of capitalism. On these terms, the death and destruction wrought by the capitalist organization of the world need not be. Capitalism can be decolonized, or at le…
On Solidarity and Capitalism
CAPITALIST HUMANITARIANISM. By Lucia Hulsether. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. ix-248. Paper, $26.95. For many years, missionaries, social entrepreneurs, microfinance bankers, and venture capitalists have been reforming neoliberal capitalism by attaching ethical and humanitarian reasons, hopes, and ideals to capitalistic projects. Lucia Hulsether's theoretically rich and insightful book, Capitalist Humanitarianism, is a criti…
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Editor’s Introduction on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism
CAPITALIST HUMANITARIANISM. By Lucia Hulsether. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. ix-248. Paper, $26.95. Fair-trade, microfinance, and impact investing. These are some of the market solutions plutocrats, and well-meaning entrepreneurs promote as more socially just forms of capitalism. On these terms, the death and destruction wrought by the capitalist organization of the world need not be. Capitalism can be decolonized, or at le…
On Solidarity and Capitalism
CAPITALIST HUMANITARIANISM. By Lucia Hulsether. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. ix-248. Paper, $26.95. For many years, missionaries, social entrepreneurs, microfinance bankers, and venture capitalists have been reforming neoliberal capitalism by attaching ethical and humanitarian reasons, hopes, and ideals to capitalistic projects. Lucia Hulsether's theoretically rich and insightful book, Capitalist Humanitarianism, is a criti…
Economies of Survival and the Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam, one of the largest and most controversial Black movements of the mid-twentieth century, promoted a philosophy of economic self-help and started businesses to this end. Its economic practices of the 1960s and 1970s have often been interpreted in connection to capitalism, whether Black, entrepreneurial, or cooperative. Examining the writings and speeches of members and allies of the Nation of Islam between 1960 and 1975, this a…
Navigating Uses of Muslim Technologies in Technocapitalist Systems
Muslim engagements with new technologies have often centered on the question of the benefits of such technologies to the community within broader ethical and legal frameworks. This article contends that such benefits are not a self-evident quality of technologies, given their embeddedness in particular political-economic systems. Focusing on the technologies that undergird US-based, Muslim-led investment- and giving-oriented organizations, the ar…
Authority and the Geographies of U.S. Muslim Economies
Capitalism (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Halal products and consumer behavior (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (1 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 works)