Banu Senay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 100791 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Banu Senay |
| PRENOMES | Banu |
| SOBRENOME | Senay |
| ASSINATURA | SENAY B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1064-5369 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Islamic bureaucracies in Indonesia and Turkey
Islamic bureaucracies
The art of bureaucracy
Hiding in plain site
Ottoman objects, art traditions, and social practices have long stood at the center of Turkish politics, given that the republic instituted itself through selectively destroying Ottoman institutions. By contrast, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) promotes a counterpolitics of service to Islam, positioning itself as the sole political force committed to upholding the legacy of Ottoman civilization. Yet not all Muslims are convinced by…
Rationalising pedagogy
Over the last two decades, the skilled practice of learning the ney (Sufi reed flute) has gone through a massive revival in Turkey, as part of a broader interest in the revitalised ‘Sufi music’ genre and in Islamic arts learning. One key step in this process has been the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government’s incorporation of ney teaching into mass public education through its council-run adult education programme (İSMEK). While …
The Impresario State
Since the early 2000s, under successive Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments, Turkey has developed more systematic ‘engagement’ policies with its extra-territorial communities, including citizens abroad, kin and ‘relatives’, and non-Turkish international students sponsored to study in Turkey. This article examines the governmental techniques taken up by the ruling AKP elites to mobilize these constituencies as a source of what Félix Kr…
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın
Niyazi Sayın is an Istanbul-born ney (reed flute) virtuoso, and the most acclaimed musician of a musical tradition controversially called “Ottoman-Turkish classical music.” Now 94 years old, Sayın has been called insan-i kamil (a perfect human), kutb-ı nayi, (the musical spiritual axis of his age), and hezarfen (master of a thousand arts). What do such titles mean? Building upon the work of Martin Stokes on popular music and its fashioning of int…
Martin Stokes, The Republic of Love
The Republic of Love is a work of great subtlety on a subject that lies at the heart of Turkish cultural and political history: popular music in Turkey. Martin Stokes offers a complex account of popular culture and public life in post-1950s' Turkey
The pleasures of ambiguity
Dealing with ambiguity' has become a pressing concern in many spheres of contemporary life, often presented as a 'survival skill' in an uncertain world. Working with ambiguity also plays a crucial role in the musical pedagogy of the Ottoman-Turkish ney (Sufi reed flute), the playing of which I discuss in this article. Rather than a constraint or deficiency to be resolved, in the context of ney apprenticeship, ambiguity emerges as a desired pedago…
We Aren’t that type of Muslim”
Humor, Amnesia, and Making Place
Drawing on Caroline Humphrey’s analysis of the personal consequences of ‘decision-events’, in this article we interpret the 2013 protests around Gezi Park in Istanbul as an eventful situation that instigated a break with participants’ previous political sentiments, recomposing them as transformed subjects in the process. We argue that an effective political humor prompted the emergence of a new subject, causing certain features of pre-Gezi politi…
Textual ecologies in Islam
The focus of this paper is a significant Islamic skilled practice, hat (calligraphy), the art of beautiful writing with the reed pen. In Islam shaping God’s very words through calligraphic writing is both an act of worship as well as an art form. In this paper I briefly explore how the act of writing the Qur’an is a means through which the performative power of the text is reproduced. To clarify what is meant here by the performative power of the…
Rethinking Spirituality through Music Education in Istanbul
Recently there has been a massive new interest in Turkey in the artistic practice of ney [reed flute]-playing. For some, much of the inspiration driving this interest connects to a search for the “spiritual.” According to a popular discourse, there is no instrument more “natural” and “simple” than the ney. For others, inspired by the poetry of Rumi, the instrument’s sound draws oneself closer to the Divine. While a close connection exists between…
Masterful words
Unlike in some recent anthropological writings that show the insignificance of verbal or overt instruction in the process of skill acquisition, talk is, in vital ways, constitutiveofthe practice ofney(reed flute) learning that I discuss here. What is it about masterful speech that makes it such a compelling vehicle for musical education? To address this question, the article presents a number of key processes thatsohbet(or conversation) is design…
Artists, antagonisms and the ney in the popularization of ‘Sufi Music’ in Turkey
Following its successful marketing as a sub-genre of ‘world music’ in the mid-1990s, Sufi music has become a cover term to describe and publicize a disparate variety of musical styles in the Turkish popular music industry. In this article, I explore this phenomenon through the recent history of the ney (reed-flute), an instrument that has been re-contextualized as the acoustic and visual signifier of Sufism, and utilized to evoke feelings of spir…
Seeing for the state
The recent literature on M uslim organisations in the T urkish diaspora context is voluminous as is analysis of K urdish and A levi grassroots politics against the T urkish state. Yet nothing has been written on those whose political orientation is in line with the secularist-nationalist ideology of the T urkish R epublic, that is, of K emalists. As a contribution to this endeavour, this paper explores K emalist actors' mobilisation in A ustralia…
Trans-Kemalism
In contrast to the huge amount of research on Turkish migration and migrants, the diasporic politics of the Turkish Kemalist state constitutes a neglected research subject in the scholarship on Turkish diaspora. How does the Turkish state reach out to its nationals and expatriates abroad? In what ways does the Turkish Republic seek to make Islam (as it does in Turkey) into an instrument legitimizing its politicizing and mobilizing enterprises? To…
Remembering the 'Timeless City
Music can be a brilliant vehicle for creating ‘memories’ about the place it evokes, even if its performers or listeners have never lived there. This paper describes a musical performance with Istanbul as its theme by the Australian Turkish Music Ensemble in Sydney, a group made up of first- and second-generation Turkish migrants. I argue that the sounds, modes, images and narratives moulded together in this musical event not only generate perform…
How do the Youth Perceive and Experience Turkish Citizenship
Citizenship is generally perceived as a political practice that falls within the historical domain of the nation-state. At least, this is the claim of many nation-states themselves, which disavow the possibility of citizenship outside of their own structures. Rather than concentrate on the organization of citizenship, this article, instead, concentrates on the experience of individual citizens. It explores a wide-ranging sample of Turkish youth's…
Trans-Kemalism
In contrast to the huge amount of research on Turkish migration and migrants, the diasporic politics of the Turkish Kemalist state constitutes a neglected research subject in the scholarship on Turkish diaspora. How does the Turkish state reach out to its nationals and expatriates abroad? In what ways does the Turkish Republic seek to make Islam (as it does in Turkey) into an instrument legitimizing its politicizing and mobilizing enterprises? To…
Masterful words
Unlike in some recent anthropological writings that show the insignificance of verbal or overt instruction in the process of skill acquisition, talk is, in vital ways, constitutiveofthe practice ofney(reed flute) learning that I discuss here. What is it about masterful speech that makes it such a compelling vehicle for musical education? To address this question, the article presents a number of key processes thatsohbet(or conversation) is design…
Seeing for the state
The recent literature on M uslim organisations in the T urkish diaspora context is voluminous as is analysis of K urdish and A levi grassroots politics against the T urkish state. Yet nothing has been written on those whose political orientation is in line with the secularist-nationalist ideology of the T urkish R epublic, that is, of K emalists. As a contribution to this endeavour, this paper explores K emalist actors' mobilisation in A ustralia…
How do the Youth Perceive and Experience Turkish Citizenship
Citizenship is generally perceived as a political practice that falls within the historical domain of the nation-state. At least, this is the claim of many nation-states themselves, which disavow the possibility of citizenship outside of their own structures. Rather than concentrate on the organization of citizenship, this article, instead, concentrates on the experience of individual citizens. It explores a wide-ranging sample of Turkish youth's…
Textual ecologies in Islam
The focus of this paper is a significant Islamic skilled practice, hat (calligraphy), the art of beautiful writing with the reed pen. In Islam shaping God’s very words through calligraphic writing is both an act of worship as well as an art form. In this paper I briefly explore how the act of writing the Qur’an is a means through which the performative power of the text is reproduced. To clarify what is meant here by the performative power of the…
Artists, antagonisms and the ney in the popularization of ‘Sufi Music’ in Turkey
Following its successful marketing as a sub-genre of ‘world music’ in the mid-1990s, Sufi music has become a cover term to describe and publicize a disparate variety of musical styles in the Turkish popular music industry. In this article, I explore this phenomenon through the recent history of the ney (reed-flute), an instrument that has been re-contextualized as the acoustic and visual signifier of Sufism, and utilized to evoke feelings of spir…
The art of bureaucracy
Hiding in plain site
Ottoman objects, art traditions, and social practices have long stood at the center of Turkish politics, given that the republic instituted itself through selectively destroying Ottoman institutions. By contrast, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) promotes a counterpolitics of service to Islam, positioning itself as the sole political force committed to upholding the legacy of Ottoman civilization. Yet not all Muslims are convinced by…
Rationalising pedagogy
Over the last two decades, the skilled practice of learning the ney (Sufi reed flute) has gone through a massive revival in Turkey, as part of a broader interest in the revitalised ‘Sufi music’ genre and in Islamic arts learning. One key step in this process has been the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government’s incorporation of ney teaching into mass public education through its council-run adult education programme (İSMEK). While …
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın
Niyazi Sayın is an Istanbul-born ney (reed flute) virtuoso, and the most acclaimed musician of a musical tradition controversially called “Ottoman-Turkish classical music.” Now 94 years old, Sayın has been called insan-i kamil (a perfect human), kutb-ı nayi, (the musical spiritual axis of his age), and hezarfen (master of a thousand arts). What do such titles mean? Building upon the work of Martin Stokes on popular music and its fashioning of int…
The pleasures of ambiguity
Dealing with ambiguity' has become a pressing concern in many spheres of contemporary life, often presented as a 'survival skill' in an uncertain world. Working with ambiguity also plays a crucial role in the musical pedagogy of the Ottoman-Turkish ney (Sufi reed flute), the playing of which I discuss in this article. Rather than a constraint or deficiency to be resolved, in the context of ney apprenticeship, ambiguity emerges as a desired pedago…
Remembering the 'Timeless City
Music can be a brilliant vehicle for creating ‘memories’ about the place it evokes, even if its performers or listeners have never lived there. This paper describes a musical performance with Istanbul as its theme by the Australian Turkish Music Ensemble in Sydney, a group made up of first- and second-generation Turkish migrants. I argue that the sounds, modes, images and narratives moulded together in this musical event not only generate perform…
How do the Youth Perceive and Experience Turkish Citizenship
Citizenship is generally perceived as a political practice that falls within the historical domain of the nation-state. At least, this is the claim of many nation-states themselves, which disavow the possibility of citizenship outside of their own structures. Rather than concentrate on the organization of citizenship, this article, instead, concentrates on the experience of individual citizens. It explores a wide-ranging sample of Turkish youth's…
Remembering the 'Timeless City
Music can be a brilliant vehicle for creating ‘memories’ about the place it evokes, even if its performers or listeners have never lived there. This paper describes a musical performance with Istanbul as its theme by the Australian Turkish Music Ensemble in Sydney, a group made up of first- and second-generation Turkish migrants. I argue that the sounds, modes, images and narratives moulded together in this musical event not only generate perform…
Trans-Kemalism
In contrast to the huge amount of research on Turkish migration and migrants, the diasporic politics of the Turkish Kemalist state constitutes a neglected research subject in the scholarship on Turkish diaspora. How does the Turkish state reach out to its nationals and expatriates abroad? In what ways does the Turkish Republic seek to make Islam (as it does in Turkey) into an instrument legitimizing its politicizing and mobilizing enterprises? To…
Seeing for the state
The recent literature on M uslim organisations in the T urkish diaspora context is voluminous as is analysis of K urdish and A levi grassroots politics against the T urkish state. Yet nothing has been written on those whose political orientation is in line with the secularist-nationalist ideology of the T urkish R epublic, that is, of K emalists. As a contribution to this endeavour, this paper explores K emalist actors' mobilisation in A ustralia…
Artists, antagonisms and the ney in the popularization of ‘Sufi Music’ in Turkey
Following its successful marketing as a sub-genre of ‘world music’ in the mid-1990s, Sufi music has become a cover term to describe and publicize a disparate variety of musical styles in the Turkish popular music industry. In this article, I explore this phenomenon through the recent history of the ney (reed-flute), an instrument that has been re-contextualized as the acoustic and visual signifier of Sufism, and utilized to evoke feelings of spir…
Masterful words
Unlike in some recent anthropological writings that show the insignificance of verbal or overt instruction in the process of skill acquisition, talk is, in vital ways, constitutiveofthe practice ofney(reed flute) learning that I discuss here. What is it about masterful speech that makes it such a compelling vehicle for musical education? To address this question, the article presents a number of key processes thatsohbet(or conversation) is design…
Humor, Amnesia, and Making Place
Drawing on Caroline Humphrey’s analysis of the personal consequences of ‘decision-events’, in this article we interpret the 2013 protests around Gezi Park in Istanbul as an eventful situation that instigated a break with participants’ previous political sentiments, recomposing them as transformed subjects in the process. We argue that an effective political humor prompted the emergence of a new subject, causing certain features of pre-Gezi politi…
Textual ecologies in Islam
The focus of this paper is a significant Islamic skilled practice, hat (calligraphy), the art of beautiful writing with the reed pen. In Islam shaping God’s very words through calligraphic writing is both an act of worship as well as an art form. In this paper I briefly explore how the act of writing the Qur’an is a means through which the performative power of the text is reproduced. To clarify what is meant here by the performative power of the…
Rethinking Spirituality through Music Education in Istanbul
Recently there has been a massive new interest in Turkey in the artistic practice of ney [reed flute]-playing. For some, much of the inspiration driving this interest connects to a search for the “spiritual.” According to a popular discourse, there is no instrument more “natural” and “simple” than the ney. For others, inspired by the poetry of Rumi, the instrument’s sound draws oneself closer to the Divine. While a close connection exists between…
We Aren’t that type of Muslim”
The Impresario State
Since the early 2000s, under successive Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments, Turkey has developed more systematic ‘engagement’ policies with its extra-territorial communities, including citizens abroad, kin and ‘relatives’, and non-Turkish international students sponsored to study in Turkey. This article examines the governmental techniques taken up by the ruling AKP elites to mobilize these constituencies as a source of what Félix Kr…
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın
Niyazi Sayın is an Istanbul-born ney (reed flute) virtuoso, and the most acclaimed musician of a musical tradition controversially called “Ottoman-Turkish classical music.” Now 94 years old, Sayın has been called insan-i kamil (a perfect human), kutb-ı nayi, (the musical spiritual axis of his age), and hezarfen (master of a thousand arts). What do such titles mean? Building upon the work of Martin Stokes on popular music and its fashioning of int…
Martin Stokes, The Republic of Love
The Republic of Love is a work of great subtlety on a subject that lies at the heart of Turkish cultural and political history: popular music in Turkey. Martin Stokes offers a complex account of popular culture and public life in post-1950s' Turkey
The pleasures of ambiguity
Dealing with ambiguity' has become a pressing concern in many spheres of contemporary life, often presented as a 'survival skill' in an uncertain world. Working with ambiguity also plays a crucial role in the musical pedagogy of the Ottoman-Turkish ney (Sufi reed flute), the playing of which I discuss in this article. Rather than a constraint or deficiency to be resolved, in the context of ney apprenticeship, ambiguity emerges as a desired pedago…
Rationalising pedagogy
Over the last two decades, the skilled practice of learning the ney (Sufi reed flute) has gone through a massive revival in Turkey, as part of a broader interest in the revitalised ‘Sufi music’ genre and in Islamic arts learning. One key step in this process has been the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government’s incorporation of ney teaching into mass public education through its council-run adult education programme (İSMEK). While …
Islamic bureaucracies in Indonesia and Turkey
Islamic bureaucracies
The art of bureaucracy
Hiding in plain site
Ottoman objects, art traditions, and social practices have long stood at the center of Turkish politics, given that the republic instituted itself through selectively destroying Ottoman institutions. By contrast, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) promotes a counterpolitics of service to Islam, positioning itself as the sole political force committed to upholding the legacy of Ottoman civilization. Yet not all Muslims are convinced by…
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