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The Kurdish Movement in Turkey’s growing alliance with Islam One of the fault lines of Turkish politics traditionally has been the divide between religious and secular movements. However, as Zeki Sarigil argues, the secular Kurdish movement in Turkey has increasingly become aligned with Islam. As a result, Islam has become part of the movement’s political discourse, strategies and actions. Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics traces the evolving relations between the leftist, secular Kurdish movement and Islam, from an apathetic and/or antagonistic attitude in the 1970s and 1980s to an increasingly Islam-friendly approach in the 1990s to an attitude of accommodation and the rise of Kurdish-Islamic synthesis in the early 2000s. Based on 104 interviews in several provinces in Turkey (primarily Ankara, Diyarbakir, Istanbul, and Tunceli) between 2011 and 2015 as well as ethnographic data, public opinion surveys and statements from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Kurdish leaders, Sarigil shows how the secular Kurdish movement increasingly has been endorsing Islam and Islamic actors. The reasons for this Islamic opening are global, national, and local; Sarigil demonstrates that a group of strategic and ideological factors have encouraged and/or forced Kurdish leaders to redraw symbolic and social boundaries of the movement. Namely, with the end of the Cold War support for Marxist ideas collapsed, creating increasingly more favorable responses towards religion. In addition, the movement’s need to expand its social basis and popularity; electoral politics; and legitimacy struggles against rival political actors were other major factors, which triggered the Kurdish movement’s boundary expansion (i.e. its Islamic opening). The study also shows that the Kurdish boundary making was not without any tension or contestation. The boundary expansion by Kurdish ethnopolitical elites triggered both internal and external boundary contestations. The movement’s embrace of Islam on a more widespread level has major ramifications for politics in Turkey and in the region. Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics has important insight into the PKK, modern Turkish and Islamic societies and highlights the increasing role of Islam in global politics.

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An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis In Coming of Age in Iran, Manata Hashemi takes readers inside the lives of Iranian youth. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Hashemi shows how the young Iranian men and women known as the "burnt generation"--those between the ages of 15 and 29, who came of age after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution--face their future prospects.With a compassionate eye, Hashemi paints a nuanced portrait of their day-to-day struggles in Iran. Hashemi spent months with these youth, observing them at bazaars, hair salons, parks, and mosques, tutoring them in English and sharing meals in their family homes. Many young Iranian men and women are jobless, living with their parents, and delaying marriage, ultimately failing to meet what they consider the traditional benchmarks of adulthood. Hashemi follows their stories, one by one, as they try to climb up the proverbial ladder of success.Coming of Age in Iran sheds light on the inner lives of a new generation of Iranian youth as they struggle in the face of ongoing economic crisis.

Youth. --- Vertical Exchange Networks. --- The Gaze. --- Tehran. --- Tastemaking. --- Symbolic Boundaries. --- Street Smarts. --- Status. --- Socioeconomic Mobility. --- Social Ties. --- Social Mobility. --- Social Media. --- Social Capital. --- Sexual Cleanliness. --- Self Sufficiency. --- Satellite Television. --- Sari. --- Ritual Action. --- Risk-Taking. --- Resistance. --- Pre-Existing Resources. --- Morality. --- Moral Self. --- Moral Purity. --- Moral Pollution. --- Moral Capital. --- Masculinity. --- Kelās. --- Informal Work. --- Accentuated Conformism;Agency;Appearances;Aspirations;Bodily Capital;Cultural Mimicry;Cultural Production;Culture;Dignity;Drug Use;Embourgeoisement;Face;Face Game;Face Rules;Family Support;Feminization of Work;Hard Work;Hegemony;Horizontal Exchange Networks;Incremental Mobility;Inequality. --- Accentuated Conformism. --- Agency. --- Appearances. --- Aspirations. --- Bodily Capital. --- Cultural Mimicry. --- Cultural Production. --- Culture. --- Dignity. --- Drug Use. --- Embourgeoisement. --- Face Game. --- Face Rules. --- Face. --- Family Support. --- Feminization of Work. --- Hard Work. --- Hegemony. --- Horizontal Exchange Networks. --- Incremental Mobility. --- Inequality. --- Kelās. --- Accentuated Conformism;Agency;Appearances;Aspirations;Bodily Capital;Cultural Mimicry;Cultural Production;Culture;Dignity;Drug Use;Embourgeoisement;Face;Face Game;Face Rules;Family Support;Feminization of Work;Hard Work;Hegemony;Horizontal Exchange Networks;Incremental Mobility;Equality.