Modernization and the reproduction of everyday life in Konya

Type Journal Article - Ilahiyat Studies: A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies
Title Modernization and the reproduction of everyday life in Konya
Author(s)
Volume 4
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 65-88
URL http://ilahiyatstudies.org/index.php/journal/article/view/167
Abstract
In this paper, modernity and the practices of everyday life are evaluated, selecting Konya as a case study. Everyday life reflects the norm of values, approaches, and actions that are brought into being in society in various ways. Konya constitutes a unique example for those who want to observe the continuity of Turkish modernism, because it is a city where modernity and desires for a traditional life meet in a paradoxical manner; it is a unique city in that it enables hybrid encounters of the modern and traditional to occur in everyday life practices. This study is an effort to understand how the attributes of the modern and the traditional shape everyday life, as well as to provide a discussion of its current problems.

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