Jenny White. Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-229
Author(s):  
Esra Özyürek
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Income Neighborhood ◽  
Seattle University

After more than seventy years of secularist rule in Turkey, victory of the Islam-based Welfare Party in the mid-1990s came as a surprise to many political observers. Electoral support for religious party politics increased despite heavy pressures from the secular army and state officials. Based on over twenty years of ethnographic research in a low-income neighborhood in Istanbul, Jenny White's Islamist Mobilization in Turkey explores the basis of this support and the meaning it carries in the daily lives of people.

Nobody’s Perfect: Making sense of a parenting skills workshop through ethnographic research in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 026101832098398
Author(s):  
Marjorie Murray ◽  
Daniela Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
One Year ◽  
Everyday Problems

Nadie es Perfecto (Nobody’s Perfect, or NEP) is a parenting skills workshop aimed at ‘sharing experiences and receiving guidance on everyday problems to strengthen child development’. This article explores this workshop in terms of its relationship with the daily lives of participants, based on one year of fieldwork focused on families with young children in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago. While caregivers frame their parenting efforts as aiming to ‘hacer lo mejor posible’ (do their best) under difficult circumstances, our study found that facilitators take an anachronistic and homogenizing view of participants. Embracing a universalistic perspective of child development, they discourage participation and debate, focusing instead on providing concrete advice that limits the potential of the workshops. This article argues that by ignoring the different living situations of families in this socioeconomic context, NEP reproduces a prejudiced view of poor subjects that sees them as deficient and incapable of change.

Book review: Sumit Guha, History and Collective Memory in South Asia 1200–2000

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-126
Author(s):  
Anagha Y. Ingole
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
South Asia ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Seattle University

Sumit Guha, History and Collective Memory in South Asia 1200–2000 (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019), xiii + 258 pp.

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