Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey

Nesecan Balkan is a Senior Lecturer of economics at Hamilton College. She is the author of Capitalism and the Debt Crisis, published in Turkish in 1994, and co-editor with Sungur Savran of The Ravages of Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Society and Gender in Turkey (2002) and The Politics of Permanent Crisis: Class, Ideology and State in Turkey (2002). Erol Balkan teaches economic development, international finance and political economy of the Middle East at Hamilton College in New York. Balkan's book on the formation of the Turkish middle class and education, Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul, was published in 2009 by Berghahn Books. Ahmet Oncu is Professor of sociology at the Sabanci University School of Management. His articles have appeared in journals such as New Perspectives on Turkey, Journal of Historical Sociology, Cultural Logic, Science and Society, Citizenship Studies, International Review of Sociology, and Review of Radical Political Economics.

• List of Figures and TablesIntroductionChapter 1. Islamism: A Comparative-Historical OverviewBurak GurelChapter 2. Class, State and Religion in TurkeySungur SavranChapter 3. The Deep Fracture in the Big Bourgeoisie of TurkeyKurtar Tanyilmaz, translated by Osman BalkanChapter 4. Islamist Big Bourgeoisie in TurkeyOzgur OzturkChapter 5. Islamic CapitalEvren HosgorChapter 6. Reproduction of the Islamic Middle Class in TurkeyErol Balkan and Ahmet OncuChapter 7. The Question of AKP Hegemony: Consent Without ConsensusEvren HosgorChapter 8. Globalization, Islamic Activism, and Passive Revolution in Turkey: The Case of Fethullah GulenJoshua HendrickChapter 9. The Laic-Islamic Schism in the Turkish Dominant Class and the MediaAnita Ogurlu and Ahmet OncuNotes on Contributors

"Balkan and her colleagues offer us a clear and well-documented treatise of the neoliberal globalization of Turkey under the Islamic project within the command of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) - an implicit coalition of diverse Islamic movements... a very timely contribution, not only for its relevance on its depiction of the recent neoliberal era of Turkey, but also on its new conceptualization of the key issues such as 'middle classes', 'Islamic capital' and informalization. Very timely indeed." * Research and Policy on Turkey