File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2004/bourdieu.0401, message 9


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
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