Chiara Maritato
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Maritato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Maritato |
| SIGNATURE | MARITATO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3159-6631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ex post gatekeeping and the fiction of border control: Pushbacks as a technology of migration governance at the Greek–Turkish Border
In or Out of the SWANA Region? Intermittent Transregionalism and Turkey’s ‘Adhocratic Governance’ Practices in Lebanon
This article investigates Turkey’s strategic positioning within the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region by introducing the concept of ‘intermittent transregionalism’ through a case study of Turkish–Lebanese relations. While existing literature predominantly frames Turkey’s role as a neo-Ottoman leadership or regional Islamic influence, this study challenges the notion of a stable and coherent regional identity that could lead to fixe…
From sit-ins to bureaucratic seats: Absorbing pious women into Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs
This article investigates how a pioneering group of feminist theologians and activists—who had offered women-centred interpretations of sacred texts, criticized misogynous practices for being at odds with the original spirit of Islam and launched projects to combat violence against women—came to be included in the bureaucracy of Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs, Diyanet. Drawing on interviews with women who were personally involved and an …
Pastors of a dispersed flock: Diyanet officers and Turkey's art of governing its diaspora
Relying on Foucault's concept of pastoral power, the article scrutinizes the role of religious officers who are employed by Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and serve Turkish Muslim communities in Europe. It investigates how state-led diaspora institutions operate at a micro-level and what they reveal about the state's governmentality outside its territory. In order to parse the pastoral actors' empirically visible agency, the w…
Introduction - A State of Diasporas: The Transnationalisation of Turkey and its Communities Abroad
This special collection aims to investigate Turkey's state diaspora policies and the so-called new wave of migration from Turkey-new in as much as it partly consists of what were previously considered the privileged secular middle classes of western Turkey--in the context of autocratization particularly since the Gezi protests in June 2013 and the military coup attempt of 15 July 2016. We are particularly interested in the movement of these new m…
Islam, the Homeland, and the Family: Diyanet's Narrative and Practices Aimed at Shaping a Loyal Muslim Turkish Diaspora
With the inclusion of women among the religious officers of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) who are serving abroad, the "ideal Turkish family" has become the main program underlying projects and activities oriented towards women, families, and young people. This international mission has led to an expansion of religious services and moral support in order to reinforce a religion-nation-family nexus within the diaspora. This article …
Patterns of Political Secularism in Italy and Turkey: The Vatican and the Diyanet to the Test of Politics
For centuries, Rome and Istanbul have been representing and epitomizing two empires and two entities with both significant spiritual and temporal power: the Papacy and the Caliphate. During the 19th and the 20th centuries, these institutions underwent significant changes in a context of state secularization: in the case of the Papacy, there was a loss of temporal power and its “reduction” to a mainly moral authority; the Caliphate, on the other h…
Expanding Religion and Islamic Morality in Turkey
Despite scholars’ tremendous interest in the dynamics of Turkish laicism, little to no attention has been paid to the actors and the practices through which Islamic morality is propagated among society every day. This article investigates the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet)’s policy that has been increasing the number of women working as preachers since 2003. To what extent and how does the employment of the Diyanet’s women preachers a…
Addressing the Blurred Edges of Turkey’s Diaspora and Religious Policy: Diyanet Women Preachers sent to Europe
Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of female religious officers have been employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and regularly sent to European countries. Tasked with providing religious knowledge and moral support to women, their engagement epitomises Diyanet’s contribution to the AKP government’s wide-ranging international mission aimed at reaching Turkish citizens living abroad. To assess the significance of the act…
Compliance or negotiation? Diyanet’s female preachers and the diffusion of a ‘true’ religion in Turkey
This article addresses the religious activities of the female preachers ( vaizeler) employed by the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It investigates the extent to which, and how, the activities carried out by the Diyanet’s vaizeler are in compliance with a state attempt to standardise and control female religious engagement. As religious officers, the vaizeler both spread and embody an organised religion. However, far from any d…
Reassessing women, religion and the Turkish secular state in the light of the professionalisation of female preachers ( v aizeler ) in Istanbul
Since 2003 the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has increased the number of female preachers (vaizeler). These state appointed professional female preachers are engaged in illuminating women and providing them with an appropriate religious education. Within the frame of Turkish state’s regulation of religious affairs, this phenomenon is important since it calls into question both the state’s monopoly over religious officers and w…
Performing Irşad: Female Preachers’ ( Vaizeler ’ s ) Religious Assistance Within the Framework of the Turkish State
This article examines religious assistance provided by female preachers (vaizeler) enrolled in a Turkish state institution, the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). Employed all over the country and abroad, these preachers perform many activities that transcend the sacred places of mosques. This study investigates how concretely the Turkish state has promoted increased religious assistance for women and families. Resulting from one year of …
Performing Irşad: Female Preachers’ ( Vaizeler ’ s ) Religious Assistance Within the Framework of the Turkish State
This article examines religious assistance provided by female preachers (vaizeler) enrolled in a Turkish state institution, the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). Employed all over the country and abroad, these preachers perform many activities that transcend the sacred places of mosques. This study investigates how concretely the Turkish state has promoted increased religious assistance for women and families. Resulting from one year of …
Pastors of a dispersed flock: Diyanet officers and Turkey's art of governing its diaspora
Relying on Foucault's concept of pastoral power, the article scrutinizes the role of religious officers who are employed by Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and serve Turkish Muslim communities in Europe. It investigates how state-led diaspora institutions operate at a micro-level and what they reveal about the state's governmentality outside its territory. In order to parse the pastoral actors' empirically visible agency, the w…
Reassessing women, religion and the Turkish secular state in the light of the professionalisation of female preachers ( v aizeler ) in Istanbul
Since 2003 the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has increased the number of female preachers (vaizeler). These state appointed professional female preachers are engaged in illuminating women and providing them with an appropriate religious education. Within the frame of Turkish state’s regulation of religious affairs, this phenomenon is important since it calls into question both the state’s monopoly over religious officers and w…
Islam, the Homeland, and the Family: Diyanet's Narrative and Practices Aimed at Shaping a Loyal Muslim Turkish Diaspora
With the inclusion of women among the religious officers of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) who are serving abroad, the "ideal Turkish family" has become the main program underlying projects and activities oriented towards women, families, and young people. This international mission has led to an expansion of religious services and moral support in order to reinforce a religion-nation-family nexus within the diaspora. This article …
Patterns of Political Secularism in Italy and Turkey: The Vatican and the Diyanet to the Test of Politics
For centuries, Rome and Istanbul have been representing and epitomizing two empires and two entities with both significant spiritual and temporal power: the Papacy and the Caliphate. During the 19th and the 20th centuries, these institutions underwent significant changes in a context of state secularization: in the case of the Papacy, there was a loss of temporal power and its “reduction” to a mainly moral authority; the Caliphate, on the other h…
From sit-ins to bureaucratic seats: Absorbing pious women into Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs
This article investigates how a pioneering group of feminist theologians and activists—who had offered women-centred interpretations of sacred texts, criticized misogynous practices for being at odds with the original spirit of Islam and launched projects to combat violence against women—came to be included in the bureaucracy of Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs, Diyanet. Drawing on interviews with women who were personally involved and an …
Introduction - A State of Diasporas: The Transnationalisation of Turkey and its Communities Abroad
This special collection aims to investigate Turkey's state diaspora policies and the so-called new wave of migration from Turkey-new in as much as it partly consists of what were previously considered the privileged secular middle classes of western Turkey--in the context of autocratization particularly since the Gezi protests in June 2013 and the military coup attempt of 15 July 2016. We are particularly interested in the movement of these new m…
Expanding Religion and Islamic Morality in Turkey
Despite scholars’ tremendous interest in the dynamics of Turkish laicism, little to no attention has been paid to the actors and the practices through which Islamic morality is propagated among society every day. This article investigates the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet)’s policy that has been increasing the number of women working as preachers since 2003. To what extent and how does the employment of the Diyanet’s women preachers a…
Addressing the Blurred Edges of Turkey’s Diaspora and Religious Policy: Diyanet Women Preachers sent to Europe
Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of female religious officers have been employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and regularly sent to European countries. Tasked with providing religious knowledge and moral support to women, their engagement epitomises Diyanet’s contribution to the AKP government’s wide-ranging international mission aimed at reaching Turkish citizens living abroad. To assess the significance of the act…
Performing Irşad: Female Preachers’ ( Vaizeler ’ s ) Religious Assistance Within the Framework of the Turkish State
This article examines religious assistance provided by female preachers (vaizeler) enrolled in a Turkish state institution, the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). Employed all over the country and abroad, these preachers perform many activities that transcend the sacred places of mosques. This study investigates how concretely the Turkish state has promoted increased religious assistance for women and families. Resulting from one year of …
Reassessing women, religion and the Turkish secular state in the light of the professionalisation of female preachers ( v aizeler ) in Istanbul
Since 2003 the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has increased the number of female preachers (vaizeler). These state appointed professional female preachers are engaged in illuminating women and providing them with an appropriate religious education. Within the frame of Turkish state’s regulation of religious affairs, this phenomenon is important since it calls into question both the state’s monopoly over religious officers and w…
Compliance or negotiation? Diyanet’s female preachers and the diffusion of a ‘true’ religion in Turkey
This article addresses the religious activities of the female preachers ( vaizeler) employed by the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It investigates the extent to which, and how, the activities carried out by the Diyanet’s vaizeler are in compliance with a state attempt to standardise and control female religious engagement. As religious officers, the vaizeler both spread and embody an organised religion. However, far from any d…
Expanding Religion and Islamic Morality in Turkey
Despite scholars’ tremendous interest in the dynamics of Turkish laicism, little to no attention has been paid to the actors and the practices through which Islamic morality is propagated among society every day. This article investigates the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet)’s policy that has been increasing the number of women working as preachers since 2003. To what extent and how does the employment of the Diyanet’s women preachers a…
Addressing the Blurred Edges of Turkey’s Diaspora and Religious Policy: Diyanet Women Preachers sent to Europe
Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of female religious officers have been employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and regularly sent to European countries. Tasked with providing religious knowledge and moral support to women, their engagement epitomises Diyanet’s contribution to the AKP government’s wide-ranging international mission aimed at reaching Turkish citizens living abroad. To assess the significance of the act…
Patterns of Political Secularism in Italy and Turkey: The Vatican and the Diyanet to the Test of Politics
For centuries, Rome and Istanbul have been representing and epitomizing two empires and two entities with both significant spiritual and temporal power: the Papacy and the Caliphate. During the 19th and the 20th centuries, these institutions underwent significant changes in a context of state secularization: in the case of the Papacy, there was a loss of temporal power and its “reduction” to a mainly moral authority; the Caliphate, on the other h…
Pastors of a dispersed flock: Diyanet officers and Turkey's art of governing its diaspora
Relying on Foucault's concept of pastoral power, the article scrutinizes the role of religious officers who are employed by Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and serve Turkish Muslim communities in Europe. It investigates how state-led diaspora institutions operate at a micro-level and what they reveal about the state's governmentality outside its territory. In order to parse the pastoral actors' empirically visible agency, the w…
Introduction - A State of Diasporas: The Transnationalisation of Turkey and its Communities Abroad
This special collection aims to investigate Turkey's state diaspora policies and the so-called new wave of migration from Turkey-new in as much as it partly consists of what were previously considered the privileged secular middle classes of western Turkey--in the context of autocratization particularly since the Gezi protests in June 2013 and the military coup attempt of 15 July 2016. We are particularly interested in the movement of these new m…
Islam, the Homeland, and the Family: Diyanet's Narrative and Practices Aimed at Shaping a Loyal Muslim Turkish Diaspora
With the inclusion of women among the religious officers of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) who are serving abroad, the "ideal Turkish family" has become the main program underlying projects and activities oriented towards women, families, and young people. This international mission has led to an expansion of religious services and moral support in order to reinforce a religion-nation-family nexus within the diaspora. This article …
From sit-ins to bureaucratic seats: Absorbing pious women into Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs
This article investigates how a pioneering group of feminist theologians and activists—who had offered women-centred interpretations of sacred texts, criticized misogynous practices for being at odds with the original spirit of Islam and launched projects to combat violence against women—came to be included in the bureaucracy of Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs, Diyanet. Drawing on interviews with women who were personally involved and an …
Ex post gatekeeping and the fiction of border control: Pushbacks as a technology of migration governance at the Greek–Turkish Border
In or Out of the SWANA Region? Intermittent Transregionalism and Turkey’s ‘Adhocratic Governance’ Practices in Lebanon
This article investigates Turkey’s strategic positioning within the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region by introducing the concept of ‘intermittent transregionalism’ through a case study of Turkish–Lebanese relations. While existing literature predominantly frames Turkey’s role as a neo-Ottoman leadership or regional Islamic influence, this study challenges the notion of a stable and coherent regional identity that could lead to fixe…
Political science (10 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Turkish (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Presidency (6 works)