This article locates imaginative aspects of human subjectivity as a feminist issue by reviewing the concept agency in genealogy Muslim and Middle Eastern women anthropological ethnographic literature. It suggests that, if scholarship East would continue approaching to women's -as it has been doing for decades-, should do so an epistemological question thus expand limits analytical focus beyond broader systems, such family, nation, religion, state. As example this proposition, then discusses...

Intimacy is tightly bound up with notions of privacy, sexuality, proximity and secrecy, dynamics sensual affective attachments forms desire. It therefore integral to the formation human selves subjectivities, as well communities, publics, collectives socialities. The articles in this Special Section all offer an anthropological inquiry into intimacy, seeking a conceptual formulation that might capture its actual operations, ways intimacy done talk action. They thus contribute...

Abstract Women’s control of their bodily movements, especially in the Islamicate contexts Middle East, constitutes a multilayered process building privacy, heterosexuality, and intimacy. Physical exercise, however, with extensive body movements it requires, problematizes women’s ability to public sexualities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted 2011 2012 Istanbul, this article explores everyday concerns Istanbulite women who seek rahatlık (comfort) during exercise. The interviewees...

This special issue is one of the most exciting products 8-year-long conversations with critical-minded friends and colleagues.The have begun reading group that Dr. Sehlikoglu has hosted at Pembroke College, University Cambridge.In 'Is Critique Islamic?' (2017-2020), we visited classical Muslim scholars polymaths from theology, philosophy sciences to understand how concepts related power, authority, critique resistance were understood by some acclaimed ranging Al-Ghazali Ibn Khaldun,...

At the London 2012 Games Muslim women from twenty-eight countries competed in over twenty different Olympic sporting events. In this paper, we critique online and print news articles, op-ed pieces radio television reports produced about these athletes. We focus specifically on mediated representations that were constructed before during Games, which originated circulated across what is commonly referred to as “the West” (referring here North America, Canada, Australia parts of Western...

This research has greatly contributed to understanding the role of distinctive historical and social processes transformations in constructing realms intimacy.We suggest that question intimacy its relation everyday domains life requires further attention.How people, bodies, objects meet touch -and zones contact they create (Pratt Rosner 2006, 17) publics, institutions, families-are critical issues examine.This special issue aims contribute studies first from an area perspective second a...

This article offers an ethnographic account of the culture mahremiyet [intimacy and privacy] in Turkey, not only as institution intimacy regulating everyday sexual relationships between individuals public, but also a system enabling operation social normalcies through creation boundaries privileges. By probing concepts fıtrat [creation or natural disposition], investigates how operates religious, mundane political registers, delves into intricate relationship intimate shared. It suggests...

This paper uses ethnographic methods to inquire how new forms of consumption arise as a result bridging Islamic spirituality with leisure in the newly growing tesettür hotels Turkey, which have become magnet popular and academic attention. We aim offer multi-layered analysis practices Muslim women context hospitality industry by looking at interactions between spiritual Islam modern capitalism. focus on process female customers these part defining redefining their developing identity that is...

<ns3:p>The aim of this paper is to locate critique at the intersections genealogy knowledge in anthropological thinking and decolonizing movement. The approaches movement as one most crucial points thinking. It built on premise that set go beyond filling gaps genealogies it can do so by: (1) revising ‘dismissed’ has contributed formation contemporary classical theory, (2) creatively implementing critical tools dismissed scholarship, an equal manner Eurocentric scholarship. To illustrate,...

While reading the papers in this collection on far right, I have found myself wondering how to locate newly rising right non-Western world and their global connectivities each other Western right. The emotive imaginative matter as they often feed other. As such, Islamophobia European is used strengthen anti-Western sentiments Islamist populisms Middle East, vice versa. Turkey's Erdoğan's revivalist imperial dreams are not disconnected from rest of either. Therefore, rise could better be...

Journal Article The rise of political Islam in Turkey: urban poverty, grassroots activism and Islamic fundamentalism. By Kayhan Delibas Get access Delibas. London: I. B. Tauris. 2015. 344pp. Index. £68.00. ISBN 978 1 78076 565 5. Sertaç Sehlikoglu 1University Cambridge, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 3, May 2015, Pages 649–650, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12309 Published: 12 2015

Book Review| November 01 2013 Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces ed. by Marilyn Booth Spaces, Booth, Marilyn, Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2010. 416 pages. ISBN 978-0-8223-4869-6. Sertaç Sehlikoglu of Cambridge Search for other works this author on: This Site Google Journal Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 148–150. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.3.148 Views Icon Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review...

The circumstances in which Islam has been able to survive the atheistic policies of Soviet Union have much debated throughout last two decades. study authorities and institutions highlighted numerous well known successful religious groups that maintained networks period. However, many individuals found navigating this period more problematic. What about those students who started their studies, but then succumbed political waves suppression conflict, never satisfactorily completed education?...

It gives me great pleasure to join JMEWS, the journal of gender in Middle East, as editor reviews section. I am especially thankful editorial team for their invitation this position and Didem Havlioglu my predecessor.The books, films, papers, conferences, various scholarly debates reviewed section are not limited work that explicitly focuses on gender. For several decades, our predecessors have contributed literature Eastern studies with interventions how seemingly gender-neutral...

Abstract Drawing on ethnographic research with the devout members of Gülen movement displaced in aftermath coup attempt 2016, this paper studies existential crisis these formerly “proper Turkish citizens” have been experiencing after being targeted by State. This crisis, as argued paper, is significantly informative understanding how privilege-based ethical self-making emanates fragility. The thus, both parallels Sunni-Turkish-ness whiteness and provides a reading processes Gülenists...