Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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Affective Possibility: Identity Documents, Checkpoints, Violence and the Law
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article seeks to highlight the unstable relationship between identity documents, checkpoints, violence and the law. To do this the piece uses stories from three Syrians concerning their everyday interactions with the law, primarily at checkpoints but also in other administrative settings.
Marika Sosnowski
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From Forced Revolution to Failed Transition: the Nightmarish Agency of Revolutionary Neo-Liberalism in Iraq [PDF]
, 2006 Este artículo explora los esfuerzos realizados para fomentar el mercado y aplicar técnicas de ingeniería constitucional como medios para el cambio liberal en el Irak de posguerra.
Parker, Christopher
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SCIRIA Openmind seminar series, tactile perception and the will to figuration in Islamic art and new media art [PDF]
, 2008 SCIRIA ‘OpenMind’ was a regular seminar series for University of the Arts London staff, MA and PhD students and the public. The seminars were hosted at Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Marks, Laura
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Mullahs, Migrants and Murids: New Developments in the Study of Pakistan A Review Article [PDF]
, 2005 Marsden, Magnus
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Once Upon a Time...When a Revolution Evolved to a Civil War in Syria [PDF]
, 2019 This paper gives an overview of how the conflict in Syria has evolved from a revolution into a sectarian civil war. Power is maintained by the ruling Assad family through promotion of the Alawite minority within the government and military.
Myers, Crystal M
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The Islamic State as an empire of nostalgia [PDF]
, 2016 Primary empires were the product of internal development and self-sustaining through the exploitation of their own resources, but there were also historically a large number of “shadow empires.” These were imperial polities that were the products of ...
Barfield, Thomas
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Refugees from Iraq in Buffalo [PDF]
, 2015 The country of Iraq suffers from war and terrorism on a daily basis. Currently the population of Iraq is approximately 28 million, of whom about 75% are Arab, 17% are Kurds and the remainder mostly Armenians, Assyrians and Turks.
Partnership for the Public Good
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Faith in development : what difference does faith make for Christian NGOs working in Bangladesh? : a research thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Development at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2018 Religious organisations are the oldest social service networks known to humankind. However, the underlying topic of religion and development has been mostly ignored in development literature until more recently.
Doorey, Julian Samuel
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