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.
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.
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.
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.
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