Order and Compromise : Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century.

Intro -- Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introductory Note -- 1: Order and Compromise: The Concrete Realities of Public Action in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire -- 2: Defective Agency -- 3: Is It Time to Stop Speaking about Ottoman Modernisation? -- 4: The Linguist and the Politician: The Türk Dil Kurumu and the Field of Power in the 1930-40s -- 5: An Imposed or a Negotiated Laiklik?: The Administration of the Teaching of Islam in Single-Party Turkey -- 6: "The Military Seize the Law": The Drafting of the 1961 Constitution -- 7: Institutional Cooperation and Substitution: The Ottoman Police and Justice System at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries -- 8: The State without the Public: Some Conjectures about the Administration for Collective Housing (TOKİ) -- 9: Heritage as a Category of Public Policy in the Southeastern Anatolia Region -- 10: European Policies to Support "Civil Society": Embodying a Form of Public Action -- 11: The Incomplete Civil Servant?: The Figure of the Neighbourhood Headman (Muhtar) -- 12: Military Domination by Donations -- 13: Women's Shelters as State Institutions -- 14: The Socialisation of Those Called up for "Training in the Love of the Motherland" as Part of Military Service in Turkey -- 15: Officialdom and the Woman Who Was "Meant to Be Dead": The Ethnography of an Exfoliation -- 16: Deceptive Agency -- Bibliography -- Index.

Order and Compromise questions the historicity of government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire onwards. Its discussion of state-society relations reveals how political and administrative institutions are being framed by constant interactions with other social realms.

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