Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Semiconscious States: The Political and the Psychic in Urban Public Life 1
6. PART I: CULTURAL POLITICS
7. 1. Prophecies of Culture: Rumor, Humor, and Secularist Projections about “Islamic Public Life” 19
8. 2. The Place of Turkey: Contested Regionalism in an Ambiguous Area 44
9. 3. The Market for Identities: Buying and Selling Secularity and Islam 78
10. PART II: STATE FANTASIES
11. 4. Rituals for the State: Public Statism and the Production of “Civil Society” 117
12. 5. Fantasies for the State: Hype, Cynicism, and the Everyday Life of Statecraft 155
13. 6. The Cult of Ataturk: The Apparition of a Secularist Leader in Uncanny Forms 188
14. Notes 205
15. Bibliography 231
16. Index 241