Islam's Marriage with Neo-Liberalism: State Transformation in Turkey »

YILDIZ ATASOY is Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her books include Hegemonic Transitions, the State and Crisis in Neoliberal Capitalism (edited); Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalization in a Muslim State and Global Shaping and Its Alternatives (edited with William K. Carroll).

The transformation of the Turkish state is examined here in the context of globalized frames of neo-liberal capitalism and contemporary schemas of Islamic politics. It shows how the historical emergence of two distinct yet intertwined imaginaries of state structuring, laiklik and Islam, continues to influence Turkish politics today.

1 Islam's Marriage with Neoliberalism 1

2 The Allure of the West 32

3 Turkish Islam: Unthinking Kemalism? 70

4 Reconstituting the State: The Islamic Framing of Neoliberalism 107

5 Kemalist State Feminism and the Islamic Dress Code 137

6 Politics Without Guarantees: The Headscarf Ban 164

7 Headscarf Madness: Narratives of Religious Rights 201

8 Conclusion 239

Notes 253

References 256

Index 280