The Social Life of Academic Discourse
Reflections on the Analysis of Piety Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5766351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dunya D Cakir (National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 395-415 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743817000307 |
| OpenAlex | W2738727734 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Examining the writings of prominent Islamist women intellectuals in Turkey, including Fatma Barbarosoğlu, Cihan Aktaş, Yıldız Ramazanoğlu, and Nazife Şişman, this article explores the repercussions of their intellectual activism for how scholars understand and study piety politics. These Islamist women intellectuals, whose discourse and subjectivities have been translated into analytical categories by scholars of piety politics, contest the terms of their encounters with academics and, more broadly, the conversion of Muslim women into objects of research. Their writings shed light on the complex interpretative interplay between academic and lay discourse when the objects of scholarly study speak back to social scientists. I argue that these kinds of critical engagements between Islamist women intellectuals and social scientific discourses attest to the mobility and circularity of social scientific categories, which have infused and reconstituted Islamist debates in Turkey. Rather than uncritically endorse or dispute these intellectuals' interpretations of social scientific accounts, I leverage their claims to underscore the social life of academic discourse and to promote an enriched vision of piety politics and reflexive methodology
CONTEST · Piety · Reflexivity · Gender Politics and Representation · Islamic Studies and History · Turkey's Politics and Society
Colonial Fantasies
An Islam of Her Own
Philosophy and the Human Sciences
Modern Feminist Thought
Interpretation and Method
Politics of Piety
Reconceptualizing the Social Sciences in Non-Western Settings
The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights”
Veiling and Headscarf-Skepticism in Turkey
On the Indigenization of Academic Discourse
The Headscarf in Turkey in the Public and State Spheres
Comparative Political Theory
Feminists, Islamists, and Political Change in Turkey
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Successful girls? Complicating post-feminist, neoliberal discourses of educational achievement and gender equality
The Forbidden Modern
Reflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science
The Voluntary Adoption of Islamic Stigma Symbols
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Ideology, Progress, and Dialogue
Universalism and Indigenisation in Sociological Theory
Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |