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Title:

The Antagonism between Secular Elites and Refugees in the context of “Theological-Political Predicament”: The Case of Turkey

Creator:

Günsoy, Funda ; Turowski, Mariusz

Subject and Keywords:

Leo Strauss ; Carl Schmitt ; Alain Badiou ; Turkey ; secularism ; religion

Abstract:

In this paper, we argue that the refugees serve as the founding uncertainty within the process of “normalization (and normization) of the exception” through non-spatialization or broadening of the perception of threat in accordance with friend-enemy distinction. At the same time, they are used as a weapon that makes legitimate interventions by the sovereign who converts the current crisis into a permanent situation. In the case of Turkey, the determinant in both the antagonism and the friendship towards Syrian refugees is their identity based on a property of being Arabian Muslims. In this framework, we will argue that the resentments towards Syrian refugees by secularist/Kemalist circles can be treated as an example of the eternal problem in the context of Straussian concept of the “theological-political predicament”.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Zakład Edukacji Międzykulturowej i Badań nad Wsparciem Społecznym Wydziału Nauk Historycznych i Pedagogicznych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2017

Resource Type:

journal

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2451-2877 ; doi:10.23734/mcs.2017.2.057.069

Source:

Pdg P 345

Language:

eng

Relation:

Multicultural Studies 2/2017, s. 57-69.

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Licence:

Rules of usage of Digital Library of Wroclaw University

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Rights holder:

© Copyright by Funda Günsoy ; © Copyright by Mariusz Turowski

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

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