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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Contesting Pluralism(s) Islamism\, Liberalism\, and Nat
 ionalism in Turkey and Beyond - Nora Fisher Onar\, San Francisco State Uni
 versiy
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CONTACT:Dr Ayse Zarakol
DESCRIPTION:Contesting Pluralism(s) challenges a widespread tendency to li
 mit studies of Turkish – and Muslim – politics to 'Islamist vs. secula
 rist' or 'Islam vs. democracy' debates. Instead\, Nora Fisher-Onar's innov
 ative argument centers on coalitions for and against pluralism. Retelling 
 Turkey's story from the late Ottoman Empire to the present as a tale of pl
 uralizing vs. anti-pluralist coalitions\, this book offers an alternative 
 explanation for major outcomes from elections and coup d'etats to revoluti
 ons. Here\, cross-camp alliances pit those who are willing to coexist with
  'Other(s)' against those who champion a unitary\, national project in whi
 ch everyone speaks\, believes\, looks\, and loves as they do. Drawing on a
  rich array of primary and secondary data\, Fisher-Onar introduces an anal
 ytical framework for capturing causal complexity in political contestation
 . This study rejects Orientalist exceptionalism\, rereading the relationsh
 ip between political religion\, pluralism\, and populism via a framework t
 hat travels across and beyond the Muslim-majority world.
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site)\, Room S2
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