Micro Spaces, Performative Repertoires and Gender Wars among Islamic Youth in Istanbul

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dc.authorwosidKomecoglu, Ugur/GLT-2440-2022
dc.contributor.authorKomecoglu, Ugur
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:55:12Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:55:12Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe cultural reforms introduced by the Turkish Republican elite after 1923 aspired to a Western-oriented civilisational transformation. Excluding Islamic symbols from the modern public sphere (such as the headscarf) was perceived as one indispensable prerequisite of the Westernisation process. The public sphere tightly monitored by the secular elites appeared as an outcome of state modernism, relegating religion to the private sphere. The emergence of an Islamist social movement in Turkey in the 1990s was characterised by its challenging of the laicity of urban spaces. Male and female activists presented themselves in a way that announced their Islamic identity, thus culturally and ideologically contesting the modernist/secularist public sphere. My argument is that the public performance of an Islamic identity in Istanbul in this period did not manifest itself as a movement of atomistic individuals, but neither was it an experience of a unified community. By contrast, Islamists pursued a form of subjectivation through Islamic morals as they tried to blend a new rationality with a religious self. In the process, young male and female Islamic actors often clashed over what the performing of this Islamic self might include.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07256860802579469
dc.identifier.endpage119en_US
dc.identifier.issn0725-6868
dc.identifier.issn1469-9540
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage107en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/07256860802579469
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8780
dc.identifier.volume30en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000210512900008en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Intercultural Studiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectIslamismen_US
dc.subjectPerformative Selvesen_US
dc.subjectPublic Spaceen_US
dc.subjectSecularismen_US
dc.titleMicro Spaces, Performative Repertoires and Gender Wars among Islamic Youth in Istanbul
dc.typeArticle

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