Melis Hafez (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Inventing Laziness

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Produktbeschreibung

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez explores the anxiety about productivity that generated reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood among the Ottomans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427845
• ISBN-10: 1108427847
• Artikelnr.: 61547007

Autorenporträt

Melis Hafez is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a PhD from the Department of History, UCLA. Her scholarship spans late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, with a focus on social and cultural transformations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Moralizing productivity in the age of reform
2. Criminalizing laziness: Punishment, reward, and negotiation in the Ottoman bureaus
3. Imagining Ottoman dandies and industrious effendis
4. Militarizing the productive body
5. Exclusionism at work: Politics, power, and productivity
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.