From: "Ozgur Budak" <budak-AT-egenet.com.tr> Subject: [BOU:] veil and politics Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:27:13 +0200 Patrick, I was referring to Mr.Kaman's comment not yours. Just wanted to let you know. Hi Daniel; Yes I am writing my phd dissertation on Turkish financial class habitus to provide some ontological ground for postfordist class relations. I don't work on islam; plus I don't have extensive knowledge on literature on islam but I do read Charles Taylor and other authors trying to construct an ethical perspectice between contesting identities and resisting against modernist ethnocentrism. I am a bit emotional in such modernist bias against islam since I experience it daily in my country. The jacobin kemalist secularization and its political representatives pursue the same blind eye towards newly born islamic middle class and professional eager to be part of the modern life. Since modernist secularization (btw Turkish laicism ia very similar to French one) was defined within ethnocentric arguments they always label islamic identity as part of past, middle ages, something related to oppression and darkness. What was called "presentism" by Taylor. Nowadays some Turkish kemalists take support from French government's attitude againt religious identities. As member of the Turkish left I really don't understand left politics' reluctance on realizing the antidemocratic nature of this progressive violoence against other identitites Best Regards Ozgur -- EgeNet Internet Servisleri (http://mail.egenet.com.tr) ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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