Gaining Freedoms - by Berna Turam (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book reveals and analyzes the ways in which highly contested, deeply divided urban space can generate opportunities for negotiation and new alliances over freedoms and rights.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book reveals and analyzes the ways in which highly contested, deeply divided urban space can generate opportunities for negotiation and new alliances over freedoms and rights.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>... this is a valuable book both for its rich ethnographic approach and for presenting an alternative, microlevel perspective to think about what democratization entails and how it can progress.'--Paul Kubicek, <i>American Journal of Sociology</i><br><br>Analyzing new splits and alliances in Turkish socio-political, Berna Turam's inspiring book provides insights on power, resistance, and ideology, as well as their interactions in everyday life. A very timely book.--Ahmet T. Kuru "San Diego State University, author of <i>Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey</i>"<br><br>In <i>Gaining Freedoms</i>, Berna Turam brilliantly illuminates the spatiality of freedom and the manifold links between space and democracy in Istanbul and Berlin. She provides an invaluable service to the interdisciplinary and politically urgent task of thinking through claims for the right to space wherever they occur.--Tim Cresswell<br><br>This exciting book tells the story of how cities can encourage an ethos of democracy and solidarity, enabling divided residents to resist authoritarian states and their ideological dogma. Drawing on the life-worlds of Turkish citizens in Istanbul and Turkish residents in Berlin, <i>Gaining Freedoms</i> represents one of the best treatments of the spatiality of politics in the context of the Middle East.--Asef Bayat<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Berna Turam is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the author of <i>Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement</i> (Stanford, 2006).
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