Karen Barkey
Biographic Data
| ID | 253029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Barkey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Barkey |
| SIGNATURE | BARKEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3325-1163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Shared Sacred Sites: Reflections on the State and Protection
This paper analyzes the conditions under which the sharing of sacred sites in Turkey is still possible despite the serious Sunnification campaign of the akp regime. I argue that ideological, cultural, and pragmatic motivations led the Turkish state to refrain from interfering in practices the ruling party deems sacrilegious and distasteful
Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan, and Turkey
After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires
After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building
Scholars and Sultans in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Abdurrahman Atçil has written an important book. He has set out to investigate the development, the role, and the positions of scholars in the Ottoman Empire during its first centuries. He is interested in the initial framework for the establishment of scholarship and madrasas in the empire, as well as the development of a relationship between the state and the scholarly community. There are a series of reasons why one might be interested in this…
The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923): The Bureaucratization of Patrimonial Authority
At its height in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire linked three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. The empire stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire through Hungary and the Balkans to Yemen and Eritrea in the south, controlling much of North Africa and western Asia, and encompassing an array of cultures, languages, peoples, climates and social and political structures. This combination of a …
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…
The Ottoman Millet System: Non-Territorial Autonomy and its Contemporary Legacy
Historians and social scientists view the Ottoman millet system as a successful example of non-territorial autonomy. The Ottoman rulers recognized the diversity of religious and ethnic communities that made up the empire and also understood that this diversity could not and should not be assimilated into an overarching principle of sameness. Instead, they organized a series of ad-hoc negotiations with the heads of religious communities, resulting…
Political legitimacy and Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Lessons learned
This article explores the role of religion in Ottoman political legitimation. It shows that the Ottoman rulers were interested in a much more expansive, diverse form of political legitimation that included Islamic religious legitimation, but also used toleration and sultanic law to construct a more capacious form of political legitimation that included Muslim and non-Muslim populations of the empire
Empires, Federated Arrangements, and Kingdoms: Using Political Models of Governance to Understand Firms’ Creative Performance
Firms can be conceived as political entities in which various stakeholders struggle against each other to reach goals. From this standpoint, the organizational structure of a firm, together with the power relations and strategies deployed by stakeholders, constitute a governance regime. It is understood that the economic performance of a firm is impacted by the type of governance regime which is at play among its different stakeholders, but littl…
Analytic Ethnography
This article examines the unique contribution that analytic ethnography has made and can make to accomplishing two of the key principles of analytical sociology: developing theoretical explanations by identifying mechanisms that connect actors, action, and outcomes; bridging the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis in those explanations. It first distinguishes ‘analytic ethnography’ from other varieties of ethnography before showing how anal…
States, regimes, and decisions: Why Jews were expelled from Medieval England and France
In the lands of the Ottomans: Religion and politics
Introduction While the relationship between religion and politics has always been interesting to scholars, its study has acquired a special urgency in the last decade. This urgency is associated with the rise of fundamentalism within different religions, the increasing use of the religious idiom in politics and the apparent reversal of the long-standing secularisation thesis. While the belief that secularisation had become the way of the world ha…
Religion and the Political Imagination
The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has co…
Passive Revolution: Absorbing The Islamic Challenge to Capitalism
Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted…
Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model
Trajectoires impériales: Histoires Connectées Ou Études Comparées
Negotiated Paths to Nationhood: A Comparison of Hungary and Romania in the Early Twentieth Century
Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
This article analyzes peasant contention in 17th‐century Ottoman villages. The authors argue that peasant contention results from the position of the village in the regional structure, with village‐level organization providing the means for contention. The article uses court records to reconstruct the formal and informal networks within and across villages in western Anatolia. Under conditions of state and market expansion, those villages in inte…
In Different Times: Scheduling and Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550 to 1650
Reading Ivo Andric's colorful short story, 'The Vezir's Elephant,' suggests a weakness in state rule consistent with a Eurocentric image of Ottoman backwardness. In the story, just as Bosnian peasants familiarized themselves with the habits of one Turkish official, he would be removed, transferred to another province and replaced by a new official with new whims and wishes. Throughout the sixteenth and a large part of the seventeenth centuries, a…
Bandits and bureaucrats: The Ottoman route to state centralization
"Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandits, formerly mercenary soldiers, were not interested in rebellion but concentrated on trying to gain state resources, more as rogue clients than as primitive rebels. The …
Comparative Perspectives on the State
Comparative work on the state, in terms of both new cases and general theoretical frameworks, has proliferated in the last decade. In this new work, traditional categories of differentiation such as structural-functionalism, Marxism, and pluralism have lost relevance and have been replaced by common conceptual strands that infuse every subfield of research on the state. In this review we select the most important conceptual strands and examine ne…
The Use of Court Records in the Reconstruction of Village Networks: A Comparative Perspective
Rebellious Alliances: The State and Peasant Unrest in Early Seventeenth-Century France and the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Millet System: Non-Territorial Autonomy and its Contemporary Legacy
Historians and social scientists view the Ottoman millet system as a successful example of non-territorial autonomy. The Ottoman rulers recognized the diversity of religious and ethnic communities that made up the empire and also understood that this diversity could not and should not be assimilated into an overarching principle of sameness. Instead, they organized a series of ad-hoc negotiations with the heads of religious communities, resulting…
Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model
Rebellious Alliances: The State and Peasant Unrest in Early Seventeenth-Century France and the Ottoman Empire
Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
This article analyzes peasant contention in 17th‐century Ottoman villages. The authors argue that peasant contention results from the position of the village in the regional structure, with village‐level organization providing the means for contention. The article uses court records to reconstruct the formal and informal networks within and across villages in western Anatolia. Under conditions of state and market expansion, those villages in inte…
In Different Times: Scheduling and Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550 to 1650
Reading Ivo Andric's colorful short story, 'The Vezir's Elephant,' suggests a weakness in state rule consistent with a Eurocentric image of Ottoman backwardness. In the story, just as Bosnian peasants familiarized themselves with the habits of one Turkish official, he would be removed, transferred to another province and replaced by a new official with new whims and wishes. Throughout the sixteenth and a large part of the seventeenth centuries, a…
A Comparative Analysis of Durkheim's Theory of Egoistic Suicide
This paper reports a comparative cross-national test of Durkheim's theory of egoistic suicide, involving indicators of religious, family, and political integration. Linear and nonlinear multiple regression analysis showed that the relationships between religious integration and suicide and between political integration and suicide are inverse exponential functions of the form Y = aebX, while the relationship between family integration and suicide…
States, regimes, and decisions: Why Jews were expelled from Medieval England and France
Passive Revolution: Absorbing The Islamic Challenge to Capitalism
The Use of Court Records in the Reconstruction of Village Networks: A Comparative Perspective
States in Search of Legitimacy
Durkheim Scholarship and Suicidology: Different Ways of Doing Research in History of Social Thought, and Different Interpretations of Durkheim's Suicide
Steven Stack has argued that we failed to do an adequate review of the relevant literature. Our paper (Breault and Barkey, 1982) was not a review article. We used what we thought were the most relevant materials, and materials that we believed had significantly advanced research in the field. We deliberately ignored a tradition in the Durkheim literature which is overly concerned with indirect tests of Durkheim's theory. (One theory in this gener…
A Comparative Analysis of Durkheim's Theory of Egoistic Suicide
This paper reports a comparative cross-national test of Durkheim's theory of egoistic suicide, involving indicators of religious, family, and political integration. Linear and nonlinear multiple regression analysis showed that the relationships between religious integration and suicide and between political integration and suicide are inverse exponential functions of the form Y = aebX, while the relationship between family integration and suicide…
States in Search of Legitimacy: Was There Nationalism in the Balkans of the Early Nineteenth Century
States in Search of Legitimacy
Durkheim Scholarship and Suicidology: Different Ways of Doing Research in History of Social Thought, and Different Interpretations of Durkheim's Suicide
Steven Stack has argued that we failed to do an adequate review of the relevant literature. Our paper (Breault and Barkey, 1982) was not a review article. We used what we thought were the most relevant materials, and materials that we believed had significantly advanced research in the field. We deliberately ignored a tradition in the Durkheim literature which is overly concerned with indirect tests of Durkheim's theory. (One theory in this gener…
Comparative Perspectives on the State
Comparative work on the state, in terms of both new cases and general theoretical frameworks, has proliferated in the last decade. In this new work, traditional categories of differentiation such as structural-functionalism, Marxism, and pluralism have lost relevance and have been replaced by common conceptual strands that infuse every subfield of research on the state. In this review we select the most important conceptual strands and examine ne…
The Use of Court Records in the Reconstruction of Village Networks: A Comparative Perspective
Rebellious Alliances: The State and Peasant Unrest in Early Seventeenth-Century France and the Ottoman Empire
Bandits and bureaucrats: The Ottoman route to state centralization
"Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandits, formerly mercenary soldiers, were not interested in rebellion but concentrated on trying to gain state resources, more as rogue clients than as primitive rebels. The …
In Different Times: Scheduling and Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550 to 1650
Reading Ivo Andric's colorful short story, 'The Vezir's Elephant,' suggests a weakness in state rule consistent with a Eurocentric image of Ottoman backwardness. In the story, just as Bosnian peasants familiarized themselves with the habits of one Turkish official, he would be removed, transferred to another province and replaced by a new official with new whims and wishes. Throughout the sixteenth and a large part of the seventeenth centuries, a…
Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
This article analyzes peasant contention in 17th‐century Ottoman villages. The authors argue that peasant contention results from the position of the village in the regional structure, with village‐level organization providing the means for contention. The article uses court records to reconstruct the formal and informal networks within and across villages in western Anatolia. Under conditions of state and market expansion, those villages in inte…
Negotiated Paths to Nationhood: A Comparison of Hungary and Romania in the Early Twentieth Century
Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model
Trajectoires impériales: Histoires Connectées Ou Études Comparées
Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted…
In the lands of the Ottomans: Religion and politics
Introduction While the relationship between religion and politics has always been interesting to scholars, its study has acquired a special urgency in the last decade. This urgency is associated with the rise of fundamentalism within different religions, the increasing use of the religious idiom in politics and the apparent reversal of the long-standing secularisation thesis. While the belief that secularisation had become the way of the world ha…
Religion and the Political Imagination
The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has co…
Passive Revolution: Absorbing The Islamic Challenge to Capitalism
Analytic Ethnography
This article examines the unique contribution that analytic ethnography has made and can make to accomplishing two of the key principles of analytical sociology: developing theoretical explanations by identifying mechanisms that connect actors, action, and outcomes; bridging the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis in those explanations. It first distinguishes ‘analytic ethnography’ from other varieties of ethnography before showing how anal…
States, regimes, and decisions: Why Jews were expelled from Medieval England and France
Empires, Federated Arrangements, and Kingdoms: Using Political Models of Governance to Understand Firms’ Creative Performance
Firms can be conceived as political entities in which various stakeholders struggle against each other to reach goals. From this standpoint, the organizational structure of a firm, together with the power relations and strategies deployed by stakeholders, constitute a governance regime. It is understood that the economic performance of a firm is impacted by the type of governance regime which is at play among its different stakeholders, but littl…
Political legitimacy and Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Lessons learned
This article explores the role of religion in Ottoman political legitimation. It shows that the Ottoman rulers were interested in a much more expansive, diverse form of political legitimation that included Islamic religious legitimation, but also used toleration and sultanic law to construct a more capacious form of political legitimation that included Muslim and non-Muslim populations of the empire
The Ottoman Millet System: Non-Territorial Autonomy and its Contemporary Legacy
Historians and social scientists view the Ottoman millet system as a successful example of non-territorial autonomy. The Ottoman rulers recognized the diversity of religious and ethnic communities that made up the empire and also understood that this diversity could not and should not be assimilated into an overarching principle of sameness. Instead, they organized a series of ad-hoc negotiations with the heads of religious communities, resulting…
The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923): The Bureaucratization of Patrimonial Authority
At its height in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire linked three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. The empire stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire through Hungary and the Balkans to Yemen and Eritrea in the south, controlling much of North Africa and western Asia, and encompassing an array of cultures, languages, peoples, climates and social and political structures. This combination of a …
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…
After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires
Political science (23 works) · Law (22 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · History (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)