Gizem Zencirci
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 244046 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gizem Zencirci |
| PRENOMES | Gizem |
| SOBRENOME | Zencirci |
| ASSINATURA | ZENCIRCI G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Providence College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6500-1683 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Introduction
This special issue examines civilizational thought in the Islamic Intellectual Field in Turkey, focusing on how civilization has been theorized within an Islam-based epistemic and political framework since the mid-twentieth century. Rather than treating civilizationism solely as a state ideology or geopolitical strategy, the contributions analyze the intellectual foundations that enabled Ottoman–Islamic civilizationism to emerge as a foundational…
Critically capitalist
Civilizationism and the search for economic authenticity in the Islamic intellectual field
Saving” Anatolian Girls
Focusing on the girls’ education projects sponsored by the secularist-Kemalist nongovernmental organization Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği (Association to Support Contemporary Life) as a case study, this article examines the productive encounter between neoliberal feminism and secularist-Kemalist nationalism in Turkey. It argues that the convergence of nationalism and neoliberalism was made possible through the shared notion of a gendered commu…
Waiting for Dignity
Project-Think and the Fragmentation and Defragmentation of Civil Society in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey
By drawing from authors’ fieldwork in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey, this article critically examines perceptions of project-think among civic organizations in the Middle East. As a managerial rationality, project-think has four key components: (a) a prioritization of discrete needs and discrete groups, (b) an orientation toward funding, (c) a focus on short-term and measurable results, and (d) the positioning of nongovernmental organizations (NGO…
A Just Economy? Unifying and Dividing the Islamic Intellectual Field in Neoliberal Turkey
In this paper, I argue that the relationship between religion and neoliberalism in non-Western contexts cannot be understood without paying attention to the contested, dynamic, and fluid production of local knowledge. In order to substantiate this argument, I trace debates about development, equality, class, labor, and wealth that circulate in the Islamic intellectual field in Turkey. Specifically, I analyze the viewpoints of three contemporary T…
Markets of Islam
This article examines the ways in which middle class Muslims in Turkey talk about Islamic ‘community’ and analyses these discourses in relation to the phenomenon of market Islam. The evidence is drawn from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with donors, managers, and volunteers of a government friendly Islamic NGO, the Light House (Deniz Feneri Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği) in 2009–2010, followed by subsequent trips in 2013 and 2015. …
Illusory Debates
Emergent social assistance programmes in developing countries are either considered to possibly signal the transition to a post-neoliberal era, or are taken to constitute a move towards neoliberal welfare governance. By examining the making of a social assistance-based welfare regime in Turkey, I argue that the expansion of social programmes are the product of the neoliberalism-plus conjuncture which takes market inequality as a given. Specifical…
From Property to Civil Society
In this article, I argue that shifting development discourses have shaped the meaning and function of vakıf s (religious endowments) in Turkey since the establishment of the republic in 1923. I identify three periods defined by their distinctive development discourse, and show how each of these discourses made vakıf s into both an object and a site of development. In the etatist discourse of the 1930s, vakıf s were articulated as national treasur…
Building A House in Heaven
(Minneapolis, mn: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). pp. 225. $25.00 paper, isbn-13: 978-0816689170.Mona Atia’s Building a House in Heaven offers an innovative ethnographic analysis of shifting religious charitable practices in neoliberal Egypt. In this multi-sited ethnography, Atia introduces us to the phenomenon of “pious neoliberalism,” or “the merging of religious and capitalist subjectivity” (xvi). Atia’s ethnographic focus is coupled wit…
Civil Society's History
This article examines the impact of JDP’s (Justice and Development Party) neo-Ottomanist heritage politics upon state-civil society relations in Turkey. Instead of treating Ottoman heritage as a fixed essence, this essay illustrates how shifting interpretations of the Ottoman past serve to construct alternative understandings of civil society. Although during the 1990s the Islamist movement largely depicted Ottoman “civil society” as a democratic…
The Headscarf in Turkey in the Public and State Spheres
This article deals with the trajectories of the headscarf issue in contemporary Turkey from the gender politics angle by exploring its counter-hegemonic potential in a historical perspective. In th
The Headscarf in Turkey in the Public and State Spheres
This article deals with the trajectories of the headscarf issue in contemporary Turkey from the gender politics angle by exploring its counter-hegemonic potential in a historical perspective. In th
From Property to Civil Society
In this article, I argue that shifting development discourses have shaped the meaning and function of vakıf s (religious endowments) in Turkey since the establishment of the republic in 1923. I identify three periods defined by their distinctive development discourse, and show how each of these discourses made vakıf s into both an object and a site of development. In the etatist discourse of the 1930s, vakıf s were articulated as national treasur…
Markets of Islam
This article examines the ways in which middle class Muslims in Turkey talk about Islamic ‘community’ and analyses these discourses in relation to the phenomenon of market Islam. The evidence is drawn from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with donors, managers, and volunteers of a government friendly Islamic NGO, the Light House (Deniz Feneri Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği) in 2009–2010, followed by subsequent trips in 2013 and 2015. …
Civil Society's History
This article examines the impact of JDP’s (Justice and Development Party) neo-Ottomanist heritage politics upon state-civil society relations in Turkey. Instead of treating Ottoman heritage as a fixed essence, this essay illustrates how shifting interpretations of the Ottoman past serve to construct alternative understandings of civil society. Although during the 1990s the Islamist movement largely depicted Ottoman “civil society” as a democratic…
Illusory Debates
Emergent social assistance programmes in developing countries are either considered to possibly signal the transition to a post-neoliberal era, or are taken to constitute a move towards neoliberal welfare governance. By examining the making of a social assistance-based welfare regime in Turkey, I argue that the expansion of social programmes are the product of the neoliberalism-plus conjuncture which takes market inequality as a given. Specifical…
Waiting for Dignity
A Just Economy? Unifying and Dividing the Islamic Intellectual Field in Neoliberal Turkey
In this paper, I argue that the relationship between religion and neoliberalism in non-Western contexts cannot be understood without paying attention to the contested, dynamic, and fluid production of local knowledge. In order to substantiate this argument, I trace debates about development, equality, class, labor, and wealth that circulate in the Islamic intellectual field in Turkey. Specifically, I analyze the viewpoints of three contemporary T…
The Headscarf in Turkey in the Public and State Spheres
This article deals with the trajectories of the headscarf issue in contemporary Turkey from the gender politics angle by exploring its counter-hegemonic potential in a historical perspective. In th
Building A House in Heaven
(Minneapolis, mn: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). pp. 225. $25.00 paper, isbn-13: 978-0816689170.Mona Atia’s Building a House in Heaven offers an innovative ethnographic analysis of shifting religious charitable practices in neoliberal Egypt. In this multi-sited ethnography, Atia introduces us to the phenomenon of “pious neoliberalism,” or “the merging of religious and capitalist subjectivity” (xvi). Atia’s ethnographic focus is coupled wit…
Civil Society's History
This article examines the impact of JDP’s (Justice and Development Party) neo-Ottomanist heritage politics upon state-civil society relations in Turkey. Instead of treating Ottoman heritage as a fixed essence, this essay illustrates how shifting interpretations of the Ottoman past serve to construct alternative understandings of civil society. Although during the 1990s the Islamist movement largely depicted Ottoman “civil society” as a democratic…
Illusory Debates
Emergent social assistance programmes in developing countries are either considered to possibly signal the transition to a post-neoliberal era, or are taken to constitute a move towards neoliberal welfare governance. By examining the making of a social assistance-based welfare regime in Turkey, I argue that the expansion of social programmes are the product of the neoliberalism-plus conjuncture which takes market inequality as a given. Specifical…
From Property to Civil Society
In this article, I argue that shifting development discourses have shaped the meaning and function of vakıf s (religious endowments) in Turkey since the establishment of the republic in 1923. I identify three periods defined by their distinctive development discourse, and show how each of these discourses made vakıf s into both an object and a site of development. In the etatist discourse of the 1930s, vakıf s were articulated as national treasur…
Markets of Islam
This article examines the ways in which middle class Muslims in Turkey talk about Islamic ‘community’ and analyses these discourses in relation to the phenomenon of market Islam. The evidence is drawn from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with donors, managers, and volunteers of a government friendly Islamic NGO, the Light House (Deniz Feneri Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği) in 2009–2010, followed by subsequent trips in 2013 and 2015. …
A Just Economy? Unifying and Dividing the Islamic Intellectual Field in Neoliberal Turkey
In this paper, I argue that the relationship between religion and neoliberalism in non-Western contexts cannot be understood without paying attention to the contested, dynamic, and fluid production of local knowledge. In order to substantiate this argument, I trace debates about development, equality, class, labor, and wealth that circulate in the Islamic intellectual field in Turkey. Specifically, I analyze the viewpoints of three contemporary T…
Project-Think and the Fragmentation and Defragmentation of Civil Society in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey
By drawing from authors’ fieldwork in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey, this article critically examines perceptions of project-think among civic organizations in the Middle East. As a managerial rationality, project-think has four key components: (a) a prioritization of discrete needs and discrete groups, (b) an orientation toward funding, (c) a focus on short-term and measurable results, and (d) the positioning of nongovernmental organizations (NGO…
Waiting for Dignity
Critically capitalist
Civilizationism and the search for economic authenticity in the Islamic intellectual field
Saving” Anatolian Girls
Focusing on the girls’ education projects sponsored by the secularist-Kemalist nongovernmental organization Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği (Association to Support Contemporary Life) as a case study, this article examines the productive encounter between neoliberal feminism and secularist-Kemalist nationalism in Turkey. It argues that the convergence of nationalism and neoliberalism was made possible through the shared notion of a gendered commu…
Introduction
This special issue examines civilizational thought in the Islamic Intellectual Field in Turkey, focusing on how civilization has been theorized within an Islam-based epistemic and political framework since the mid-twentieth century. Rather than treating civilizationism solely as a state ideology or geopolitical strategy, the contributions analyze the intellectual foundations that enabled Ottoman–Islamic civilizationism to emerge as a foundational…
Law (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Political economy (7 obras) · Turkey's Politics and Society (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Islam (5 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras)