By D. Kuzmanovic
ISBN-10: 1137027924
ISBN-13: 9781137027924
ISBN-10: 1349439835
ISBN-13: 9781349439836
Drawing on info from ethnographic fieldwork between civic activists and picking more than a few household and overseas socio-political contexts, Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey explores assorted perceptions of civil society in Turkey and pursues the final query of why civil society holds such energy to maneuver those that evoke it.
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2 Mapping Samimi Civil Society Among the first things I did after I arrived in Ankara to do fieldwork on civil society was to ask my contacts which organizations and activists they would talk to. I presented them with a list, and asked them to evaluate it. Two of the interlocutors who helped me out were Orhan and Bilge. Orhan first classified the organizations according to agenda to see if key activities were missing. “These do human rights work, those deal with women’s issues, and those are interested in democracy issues,” he explained.
Dominated by discussions of organizations of free individuals bound by a more or less specifically articulated social contract, symbolized by such artifacts as the membership list [and which] have a middle-class constituency” (1996: 143). Such organizations might be few and also weak in Turkey. But White cautions that this should not lead to the conclusion that people are not engaged in civic activities. : 144–145). ), she argues. Members of such hybrid groups do not hold any notion of universal citizenship as the basis of their activism.
Nor can agency as resistance be singled out or demarcated alongside other social acts by reserving its use to instances where these acts are performed in an explicitly political context (Mitchell 2007: 90). If one looks at the way in which agency has been approached, it has never been reducible to a question of empowerment or resistance neither within anthropology (Ortner 1984, 1995, 2005; Cheater 1999) nor in social theory in general (Meyer and Jepperson 2000: 100). Instead, it has been argued, agency should be viewed as a feature of human existence by those who somehow attempt to bring the acting subject back into social theory (Ortner 2005: 32–33).
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