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• catalog abstract ""Catherine Alexander charts how Turkish people, both within and outside the state bureaucracy, attempt to personalize the impersonality of the state. Based on a detailed study of the nationalized Turkish Sugar Corporation, she considers how people from the highest levels of the state bureaucracy to farming villages understand 'the state', and how, in turn, they imagine themselves to be perceived. The narratives and metaphors used in these constructions draw on resources close to hand such as the material organization of state factory compounds, state personnel encountered in the course of everyday life, and images of the family structure. By also exploring notions of state and personhood within the highest echelons of the administration itself, Alexander shows how ideas of 'the state' recede once one is actually 'within'. For officials the state becomes other institutions and Ministries with which they have little contact. The continual process of striving to make connections with other groups and people occurs both at all hierarchical levels of the Sugar Corporation and between farmers and factory engineers." "This ethnography of modernity will cause scholars of state institutions across a broad range of disciplines radically to rethink what 'the state' actually is, and the relations that create it, thus taking understandings of the state to an entirely new level."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12580956.
• catalog coverage "Turkey Politics and government 1980-".
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""Catherine Alexander charts how Turkish people, both within and outside the state bureaucracy, attempt to personalize the impersonality of the state. Based on a detailed study of the nationalized Turkish Sugar Corporation, she considers how people from the highest levels of the state bureaucracy to farming villages understand 'the state', and how, in turn, they imagine themselves to be perceived. The narratives and metaphors used in these constructions draw on resources close to hand such as the material organization of state factory compounds, state personnel encountered in the course of everyday life, and images of the family structure.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Histories: Time and the Self -- 3. Sugar -- 4. The State: The View from Elsewhere -- 5. The State: The View from Within -- 6. The Factory: Fabricating the State -- 7. Village Brokering -- 8. The Sugar Contract.".
• catalog description "By also exploring notions of state and personhood within the highest echelons of the administration itself, Alexander shows how ideas of 'the state' recede once one is actually 'within'. For officials the state becomes other institutions and Ministries with which they have little contact. The continual process of striving to make connections with other groups and people occurs both at all hierarchical levels of the Sugar Corporation and between farmers and factory engineers." "This ethnography of modernity will cause scholars of state institutions across a broad range of disciplines radically to rethink what 'the state' actually is, and the relations that create it, thus taking understandings of the state to an entirely new level."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.".
• catalog extent "x, 267 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0199251797 (hbk.)".
• catalog identifier "9780199251797".
• catalog isPartOf "Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Turkey Politics and government 1980-".
• catalog spatial "Turkey".
• catalog spatial "Turkey.".
• catalog subject "320.9561 21".
• catalog subject "Bureaucracy Turkey Public opinion.".
• catalog subject "JQ1805 .A44 2002".
• catalog subject "Public opinion Turkey.".
• catalog subject "State, The Public opinion.".
• catalog subject "Türkiye Şeker Fabrikaları.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Histories: Time and the Self -- 3. Sugar -- 4. The State: The View from Elsewhere -- 5. The State: The View from Within -- 6. The Factory: Fabricating the State -- 7. Village Brokering -- 8. The Sugar Contract.".
• catalog title "Personal states : making connections between people and bureaucracy in Turkey / Catherine Alexander.".
• catalog type "text".