The Resource Inventing laziness : the culture of productivity in late Ottoman society, Melis Hafez, (electronic resource)
Inventing laziness : the culture of productivity in late Ottoman society, Melis Hafez, (electronic resource)
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- Neither laziness nor its condemnation are new inventions, however, perceiving laziness as a social condition that afflicts a 'nation' is. In the early modern era, Ottoman political treatises did not regard the people as the source of the state's problems. Yet in the nineteenth century, as the imperial ideology of Ottomanism and modern discourses of citizenship spread, so did the understanding of laziness as a social disease that the 'Ottoman nation' needed to eradicate. Asking what we can learn about Ottoman history over the long nineteenth-century by looking closely into the contested and shifting boundaries of the laziness - productivity binary, Melis Hafez explores how 'laziness' can be used to understand emerging civic culture and its exclusionary practices in the Ottoman Empire. A polyphonic involvement of moralists, intellectuals, polemicists, novelists, bureaucrats, and, to an extent, the public reveals the complexities and ambiguities of this multifaceted cultural transformation. Using a wide variety of sources, this book explores the sustained anxiety about productivity that generated numerous reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, an--
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- eng
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages)
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- 9781108551922
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- Inventing laziness : the culture of productivity in late Ottoman society
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- Inventing laziness
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- the culture of productivity in late Ottoman society
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- Melis Hafez
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Neither laziness nor its condemnation are new inventions, however, perceiving laziness as a social condition that afflicts a 'nation' is. In the early modern era, Ottoman political treatises did not regard the people as the source of the state's problems. Yet in the nineteenth century, as the imperial ideology of Ottomanism and modern discourses of citizenship spread, so did the understanding of laziness as a social disease that the 'Ottoman nation' needed to eradicate. Asking what we can learn about Ottoman history over the long nineteenth-century by looking closely into the contested and shifting boundaries of the laziness - productivity binary, Melis Hafez explores how 'laziness' can be used to understand emerging civic culture and its exclusionary practices in the Ottoman Empire. A polyphonic involvement of moralists, intellectuals, polemicists, novelists, bureaucrats, and, to an extent, the public reveals the complexities and ambiguities of this multifaceted cultural transformation. Using a wide variety of sources, this book explores the sustained anxiety about productivity that generated numerous reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, an--
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- Hafez, Melis
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- Laziness
- Labor productivity
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- Turkey
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages)
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- Inventing laziness : the culture of productivity in late Ottoman society, Melis Hafez, (electronic resource)
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages)
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- online
- Isbn
- 9781108551922
- Media category
- computer
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- digital, PDF file(s).
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