Book Review: Other Areas: Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State
| DOI | 10.1111/1478-9302.12016_130 |
| Date | 01 May 2013 |
| Published date | 01 May 2013 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
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trasting regional experiences with the introduction of
The sub-topics, which are related to each other, are
managerial patronage (ch. 5), and survey data are exer-
explained using examples of media and some books:
cised to explore the connection between Russian civil
Sennett’s The Fall of Public Man, Flaubert’s Madame
society and authoritarianism (ch. 7).
Bovary, Recaized’s The Carriage Affair and Tanpınar’s A
From the perspective of future social science research,
Mind at Peace. George Simmel’s sociology is also men-
Rostislav Turovsky’s chapter is the most practical of the
tioned, notably the psychological effects of industrial
contributions because he offers a new analytical frame-
revolution on public and private spheres in modern
work for comparative regional-level research that fully
society. Another topic that the author emphasises is the
grapples with the variation between regions while sys-
rise of groups that had been repressed and that were
tematising research through the development of quan-
provincialised before the military coup: Islamists and
tifiable variables. While much of the literature on
Kurds. The book is aimed at readers who are interested
Russian politics is not explicitly informed by other veins
in the politics and recent history of Turkey.
of political science, various chapters in this volume
The author achieves her goals by using concrete
unexpectedly and interestingly draw on the well-
examples to explain the points she makes. These make
established literature on American politics to ground the
the book empirically worthwhile, but there are some
authors’ discussions on political machines, patronage and
missing issues, such as the effects of Turkish foreign
the relationship between pluralism and democracy.
policy and of the early republican era on...
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