Personal States

Making Connections between People and Bureaucracy in Turkey

Autor: Catherine Alexander

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Oxford University Press

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Catherine Alexander charts how Turkish people, both within and outside the state bureaucracy, attemp...

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Autor

Catherine Alexander

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2002

strony

284

EAN

9780199251797

ISBN

0199251797

Enbook ID

04530386

Wydawca

Oxford University Press

Waga

552

Wymiary

165 x 240 x 21

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Catherine Alexander charts how Turkish people, both within and outside the state bureaucracy, attempt to personalise the impersonality of the state. Based on a detailed study of the nationalized Turkish Sugar Corporation, she considers how people from the highest levels of the state bureaucracy to farming villages understand 'the state', and how, in turn, they imagine themselves to be perceived. The narratives and metaphors used in these constructions draw on resources close to hand such as the material organization of state factory compounds, state personnel encountered in the course of everyday life, and the image of the family structure. By also exploring notions of state and personhood within the highest echelons of the administration itself, Alexander shows how ideas of 'the state' recede once one is actually 'within'. For officials the state becomes other institutions and Ministries with which they have little contact. The continual process of striving to make connections with other groups and people occurs both at all hierarchical levels of the Sugar Corporation and between farmers and factory engineers. This elegant, nuanced ethnography of modernity will cause scholars of state institutions across a broad range of disciplines radically to rethink what 'the state' actually is, and the relations that create it, thus taking understandings of the state to an entirely new level.

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