Personal States: Making Connections Between People and Bureaucracy in TurkeyOxford University Press, 2002 - 267 Seiten 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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... Village Brokering 8. The Sugar Contract 9. The Practice of Contracts 10. Talking about Privatization References Index xii xiii xiii xiv 1 28 55 76 92 123 150 177 201 224 241 255 LIST OF FIGURES Frontispiece Beta vulgaris L. 1.1 . Turkey's.
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Introduction | 1 |
Time and the Self | 28 |
Sugar | 55 |
The View from Elsewhere | 76 |
The View from Within | 92 |
Fabricating the State | 123 |
Village Brokering | 150 |
The Sugar Contract | 177 |
The Practice of Contracts | 201 |
Talking about Privatization | 224 |
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abstract Adapazarı administration affiliation agricultural engineers Anatolia Ankara artefact Atatürk beet farmers beet price British civil service broker building bureaucracy central bureaucracy centre co-operation co-operative connections constructed context crops culture decares described director domestic east effect environment Erzurum factory example explored factory compound factory officials factory's farming GD officials gender grow beet hierarchical household idea Ilıca imece institutions Islam kaymakam Kayseri kuruş land Mahmud II means metaphors metonymic modern muhtar narratives networks notion organization Ottoman Empire Panko Pankobirlik party patrimonial person political position practice private factories produced regional relations relationship religious Republic role secular seen senior sense social SOEs structure Sublime Porte sucrose sugar beet Sugar Contract Sugar Corporation sugar factory suggests sultan tion traditional Treasury trust Turkey Turkish Sugar Uşak village Western women workers