Complexities of the Secular/Islamic Divide and Multiple Secularismsin Turkey: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in the ‘Gezi Park’ Protests
Complexities of the Secular/Islamic Divide and Multiple Secularismsin Turkey: The Anti-Capitalist Muslims in the ‘Gezi Park’ Protests
Author(s): Erdem DamarSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Secular/Islamic divide; multiple secularisms; Kemalist secularism; AKP Government; Anti-Capitalist Muslims; Gezi protests
Summary/Abstract: This article suggests that the Gezi Park protests in general, and particularly the presence there of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims is a valuable example for studying the ambiguity and complexity of the secular/Islamic paradigm in Turkey. Conducting field research on the formation of the Anti-Capitalist Muslim identity, I argue that the secular/Islamic divide is politically produced, and potentially vulnerable to contestations and transformations, for it opens the socio-political landscape to the production of multiple secularisation projects beyond this divide.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Sociologica
- Issue Year: VI/2014
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 110-125
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English