Brian Silverstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Silverstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverstein |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERSTEIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2417-1707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Remaking the Qualities of Turkish Olive Oil
The geography that is now Turkey has produced olives and their oil for millennia, but major changes in the industry have been underway in the last decade, with many producers now focusing on quality over quantity. Based on fieldwork with olive oil producers, harvesters, laboratory technicians, equipment engineers, and others in the industry, this article describes this “quality turn,” what is driving it, who is involved in it, how it unfolds, and…
Economizing chemical compounds: The production of qualities in Turkish olive oil
Producers in many sectors, including food, are seeking to convert chemical compounds into value. Turkey is in the midst of a 'quality turn' in its olive oil sector, as producers seek ways to capture value through what I describe here as processes of qualification. Based on fieldwork with olive oil producers and others in the sector in Turkey, I show how the qualities of 'high-quality' olive oil are made through labour, technique and technology, r…
Commensuration, performativity, and the reform of statistics in Turkey
Turkey's application to join the European Union, while currently a distant prospect, has nonetheless required the Turkish state to learn new things about the country in light of new norms and to use new formats and methodologies. The reform of its statistics is a key mechanism through which this transformation is taking place. A focus of intensive reforms is agricultural statistics, and these reforms have had an impact on farmers' practices and l…
Statistics, Reform, and Regimes of Expertise in Turkey
Statistics is one of the chapters in Turkey's EU entry negotiations, and the country is transforming what statistics it collects, using what methodologies, at what intervals, how it publishes them, and how it uses them. It is in light of the new statistical knowledge that the country is reforming its institutions and practices. This paper argues that the relationship between statistics and social forms is not solely one of description. To the ext…
Reform in Turkey: Liberalization as government and critique (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
Turkey is in the midst of a wide‐ranging reform of historic proportions, the most profound reorganization and restructuring of institutions and practices since the foundation of the Republic in 1923. These reforms, inspired and guided by the country's EU integration, are multifaceted but can be summarized as liberalization of economy, politics and society. While capitalist penetration and privatization are obvious features of the reform, its tech…
Sufism and Governmentality in the Late Ottoman Empire
This article examines transformations in Sufi orders and in the status of Sufis in the late Ottoman Empire and argues that their increasing bureaucratization was an extension of increased rationalization of Ottoman administration and the normalization of the objects of governance into the Islamic sphere. The characteristically modern modes of power that Michel Foucault identified as governmentality and the particular kinds of knowledge and subjec…
Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey by Esra Özyürek
Disciplines of Presence in Modern Turkey: Discourse, Companionship, and the Mass Mediation of Islamic Practice
This article examines a contemporary Turkish Sufi order's devotional practice of sohbet-translated here as "companionship in conversation"-to show how characteristically modern practices and techniques have come to take a role in the constitution of dispositions that are central to the viability of Islamic virtues. In the act of oral transmission sohbet cultivates the kinds of relationships considered liable to constitute a morally structured dis…
Islamist Critique in Modern Turkey: Hermeneutics, Tradition, Genealogy
What is the status of Islamic traditions of discourse and practice in Turkey as it is ever more self-consciously heir to the Islamic heritage of the Ottoman Empire, and yet has seen such dramatic social, economic, and political transformation during the last two centuries? In recent years a considerable and ever-increasing proportion of scholarly and popular effort has been directed on the part of self-identifying Islamist (İslâmcı) writers in Tu…
Islam and Modernity in Turkey: Power, Tradition and Historicity in the European Provinces of the Muslim World
[Figures] Dis-enchanting the Orient In 1962 Michel Foucault delivered a paper entitled 'Le Désenchantment oriental' in Ankara, Turkey. 1 It seems Foucault never published the paper (and it does not appear in the posthumous collection of his works), but the theme announced by its title is symptomatic of a certain diagnosis of the status of the present. Désenchantement, the inexorable process whereby 'society' is constituted as a distinct object se…
Discipline, knowledge and imperial power in Central Asia: 19Th Century Notes for a Genealogy of Social Forms
(2002). Discipline, knowledge and imperial power in Central Asia: 19th century notes for a genealogy of social forms. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 91-105
Disciplines of Presence in Modern Turkey: Discourse, Companionship, and the Mass Mediation of Islamic Practice
This article examines a contemporary Turkish Sufi order's devotional practice of sohbet-translated here as "companionship in conversation"-to show how characteristically modern practices and techniques have come to take a role in the constitution of dispositions that are central to the viability of Islamic virtues. In the act of oral transmission sohbet cultivates the kinds of relationships considered liable to constitute a morally structured dis…
Sufism and Governmentality in the Late Ottoman Empire
This article examines transformations in Sufi orders and in the status of Sufis in the late Ottoman Empire and argues that their increasing bureaucratization was an extension of increased rationalization of Ottoman administration and the normalization of the objects of governance into the Islamic sphere. The characteristically modern modes of power that Michel Foucault identified as governmentality and the particular kinds of knowledge and subjec…
Islam and Modernity in Turkey: Power, Tradition and Historicity in the European Provinces of the Muslim World
[Figures] Dis-enchanting the Orient In 1962 Michel Foucault delivered a paper entitled 'Le Désenchantment oriental' in Ankara, Turkey. 1 It seems Foucault never published the paper (and it does not appear in the posthumous collection of his works), but the theme announced by its title is symptomatic of a certain diagnosis of the status of the present. Désenchantement, the inexorable process whereby 'society' is constituted as a distinct object se…
Commensuration, performativity, and the reform of statistics in Turkey
Turkey's application to join the European Union, while currently a distant prospect, has nonetheless required the Turkish state to learn new things about the country in light of new norms and to use new formats and methodologies. The reform of its statistics is a key mechanism through which this transformation is taking place. A focus of intensive reforms is agricultural statistics, and these reforms have had an impact on farmers' practices and l…
Islamist Critique in Modern Turkey: Hermeneutics, Tradition, Genealogy
What is the status of Islamic traditions of discourse and practice in Turkey as it is ever more self-consciously heir to the Islamic heritage of the Ottoman Empire, and yet has seen such dramatic social, economic, and political transformation during the last two centuries? In recent years a considerable and ever-increasing proportion of scholarly and popular effort has been directed on the part of self-identifying Islamist (İslâmcı) writers in Tu…
Economizing chemical compounds: The production of qualities in Turkish olive oil
Producers in many sectors, including food, are seeking to convert chemical compounds into value. Turkey is in the midst of a 'quality turn' in its olive oil sector, as producers seek ways to capture value through what I describe here as processes of qualification. Based on fieldwork with olive oil producers and others in the sector in Turkey, I show how the qualities of 'high-quality' olive oil are made through labour, technique and technology, r…
Statistics, Reform, and Regimes of Expertise in Turkey
Statistics is one of the chapters in Turkey's EU entry negotiations, and the country is transforming what statistics it collects, using what methodologies, at what intervals, how it publishes them, and how it uses them. It is in light of the new statistical knowledge that the country is reforming its institutions and practices. This paper argues that the relationship between statistics and social forms is not solely one of description. To the ext…
Discipline, knowledge and imperial power in Central Asia: 19Th Century Notes for a Genealogy of Social Forms
(2002). Discipline, knowledge and imperial power in Central Asia: 19th century notes for a genealogy of social forms. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 91-105
Islam and Modernity in Turkey: Power, Tradition and Historicity in the European Provinces of the Muslim World
[Figures] Dis-enchanting the Orient In 1962 Michel Foucault delivered a paper entitled 'Le Désenchantment oriental' in Ankara, Turkey. 1 It seems Foucault never published the paper (and it does not appear in the posthumous collection of his works), but the theme announced by its title is symptomatic of a certain diagnosis of the status of the present. Désenchantement, the inexorable process whereby 'society' is constituted as a distinct object se…
Islamist Critique in Modern Turkey: Hermeneutics, Tradition, Genealogy
What is the status of Islamic traditions of discourse and practice in Turkey as it is ever more self-consciously heir to the Islamic heritage of the Ottoman Empire, and yet has seen such dramatic social, economic, and political transformation during the last two centuries? In recent years a considerable and ever-increasing proportion of scholarly and popular effort has been directed on the part of self-identifying Islamist (İslâmcı) writers in Tu…
Disciplines of Presence in Modern Turkey: Discourse, Companionship, and the Mass Mediation of Islamic Practice
This article examines a contemporary Turkish Sufi order's devotional practice of sohbet-translated here as "companionship in conversation"-to show how characteristically modern practices and techniques have come to take a role in the constitution of dispositions that are central to the viability of Islamic virtues. In the act of oral transmission sohbet cultivates the kinds of relationships considered liable to constitute a morally structured dis…
Sufism and Governmentality in the Late Ottoman Empire
This article examines transformations in Sufi orders and in the status of Sufis in the late Ottoman Empire and argues that their increasing bureaucratization was an extension of increased rationalization of Ottoman administration and the normalization of the objects of governance into the Islamic sphere. The characteristically modern modes of power that Michel Foucault identified as governmentality and the particular kinds of knowledge and subjec…
Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey by Esra Özyürek
Reform in Turkey: Liberalization as government and critique (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
Turkey is in the midst of a wide‐ranging reform of historic proportions, the most profound reorganization and restructuring of institutions and practices since the foundation of the Republic in 1923. These reforms, inspired and guided by the country's EU integration, are multifaceted but can be summarized as liberalization of economy, politics and society. While capitalist penetration and privatization are obvious features of the reform, its tech…
Statistics, Reform, and Regimes of Expertise in Turkey
Statistics is one of the chapters in Turkey's EU entry negotiations, and the country is transforming what statistics it collects, using what methodologies, at what intervals, how it publishes them, and how it uses them. It is in light of the new statistical knowledge that the country is reforming its institutions and practices. This paper argues that the relationship between statistics and social forms is not solely one of description. To the ext…
Commensuration, performativity, and the reform of statistics in Turkey
Turkey's application to join the European Union, while currently a distant prospect, has nonetheless required the Turkish state to learn new things about the country in light of new norms and to use new formats and methodologies. The reform of its statistics is a key mechanism through which this transformation is taking place. A focus of intensive reforms is agricultural statistics, and these reforms have had an impact on farmers' practices and l…
Economizing chemical compounds: The production of qualities in Turkish olive oil
Producers in many sectors, including food, are seeking to convert chemical compounds into value. Turkey is in the midst of a 'quality turn' in its olive oil sector, as producers seek ways to capture value through what I describe here as processes of qualification. Based on fieldwork with olive oil producers and others in the sector in Turkey, I show how the qualities of 'high-quality' olive oil are made through labour, technique and technology, r…
Remaking the Qualities of Turkish Olive Oil
The geography that is now Turkey has produced olives and their oil for millennia, but major changes in the industry have been underway in the last decade, with many producers now focusing on quality over quantity. Based on fieldwork with olive oil producers, harvesters, laboratory technicians, equipment engineers, and others in the industry, this article describes this “quality turn,” what is driving it, who is involved in it, how it unfolds, and…
Sociology (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)