عنوان

Islam, secularism and cultural conflict: How university students in Turkey negotiate collective identities across places

شماره

TL49222

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Islam, secularism and cultural conflict: How university students in Turkey negotiate collective identities across places

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jennifer Auerbach

نام ساير پديدآوران

Miller-Idriss, Cynthia

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

New York University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2017

نام خاص و کميت اثر

288

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Erol, Sibel; Sirin, Selcuk

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-53892-2

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

New York University

امتياز متن

2017

متن يادداشت

This dissertation addresses the culture wars related to Islam and secularism in Turkey. It details the everyday processes by which individuals negotiate collective identities through the deployment of cultural symbols, such as clothing and lifestyle choices, tied to the cultures of Islam and secularism. I argue that 'place' plays a mediating role in the negotiation of collective identities and examine this process for university students in Turkey focusing on how it varies across universities, different neighborhoods, and other establishments students encounter in their daily lives. Drawing from original survey data, I present background on how student identities, and thus university cultures, vary at three Istanbul-based universities and demonstrate the complexity and multiplicity of these identities, as not simply Islamic or secular. Then, drawing on interviews and participant observations, I explain how neighborhoods and establishments such as Starbucks are widely believed to have particular cultural orientations and symbolism in relation to the cultures of Islam and secularism. As such, university students' sense of belonging shifts across these places in relation to the gendered cultural symbols with which they represent themselves. This process plays a role in the policing of cultural territory as Islamic or secular. Yet, students employ creative means to alter their symbolic clothing and lifestyle choices in order to navigate different territories. Furthermore, I examine students' understanding of the university as symbolic of liberal culture and the ways students contend with their ideals surrounding liberalism in the process of negotiating identities related to Islam and secularism. I demonstrate the extent and limits of tolerance across the different universities by analyzing students' reported attitudes toward identity others and how their attitudes relate to the culture of liberalism at their university. Finally, this dissertation examines the context of university student protests and argues that how students interpret the rights-based issues involved in a protest evinces the extent and limits of how tolerant they may be and whether they may form social solidarities. This research demonstrates the nuanced mechanisms across places that inspire tolerance, a sense of belonging and social solidarities and what factors encourages intolerance, exclusion and social divisions.

موضوع مستند نشده

Near Eastern Studies; Sociology; Higher education

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Education;Islam;Religiosity;Secularism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Choudhary, Wajeeha Ameen

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Miller-Idriss, Cynthia

تقسيم فرعي

Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

New York University

شماره بازیابی

1871306247; 10253693

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y