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Inventing Laziness

by Melis Hafez (virginia Commonwealth University)

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For historians and readers interested in Ottoman culture

Unpacks the misconception of laziness as a social disease

You will gain insights into civic culture and identity shifts

Inventing Laziness explores the cultural perceptions of laziness in the Ottoman Empire.

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Neither laziness nor its condemnation are new inventions, however, perceiving laziness as a social condition that afflicts a 'nation' is. In the early modern era, Ottoman political treatises did not regard the people as the source of the state's problems. Yet in the nineteenth century, as the imperial ideology of Ottomanism and modern discourses of citizenship spread, so did the understanding of laziness as a social disease that the 'Ottoman nation' needed to eradicate. Asking what we can learn about Ottoman history over the long nineteenth-century by looking closely into the contested and shifting boundaries of the laziness - productivity binary, Melis Hafez explores how 'laziness' can be used to understand emerging civic culture and its exclusionary practices in the Ottoman Empire. A polyphonic involvement of moralists, intellectuals, polemicists, novelists, bureaucrats, and, to an extent, the public reveals the complexities and ambiguities of this multifaceted cultural transformation. Using a wide variety of sources, this book explores the sustained anxiety about productivity that generated numerous reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood among the Ottomans.
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  • Author

    Melis Hafez (virginia Commonwealth University)

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    December 2021

  • Weight

    600g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108427845

  • ISBN-10

    1108427847

  • Eden Code

    5608102

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