QUESTIONING ISLAMIC CONSERVATISM: SOCIAL SPACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN THE EVERYDAY OF KEÇİÖREN

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2023-5-05

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CAN MOLLAER, ESRA

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This study explores the newly emerging ways of what it has been usually called nationalist Islamic conservatism among lower middle class families living in Keçiören. Based on a 14 months long ethnographic study, it aims to contribute to the understanding of how conservative practices, disposition and embodiments are produced through a complex set of class-based, gendered social relations in everyday life of Keçiören. This study benefited from Bourdieu’s theory of practice to base a theoretical construction of conservatism as a research object. Drawing on the socio-spatial framework of Lefebvre (1991) and following the debates on the significance of ‘politics of scale’, this study constructs its analysis coordinates according to the relational socio-spatial scales; the historical makings of Keçiören as a scale of district; the socio-spatial differentiations at the scale of socio-economically different neighborhoods (mahalle); and the scales of home and body. Highlighting the significance of the socio-spatial scale of neighborhood in generating and shaping the class-based and gendered practices and dispositions of conservatism in Keçiören, this study also elaborates on the role of negotiated and contested practices of ‘we-makings’ in the formation of sociality.

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Social space, class, gender, neighborhood, Keçiören

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103053

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis