Jenny White. Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Year 2024, Volume: 30 Issue: 118, 551 - 554, 01.05.2024

Hande Birkalan-gedik

Abstract

Jenny White, a US cultural anthropologist who has been working on different aspects
of contemporary cultures in Turkey since the 1970’s, has a special place in ethnographic
studies of Turkey. Currently professor emerita at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish
Institute, she studied psychology at Hacettepe University and learned Turkish there. With
a native proficiency working in Turkish, her publications on Turkey include several books
with significant awards and several other impactful articles on Turkey. Her work include
Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks (Princeton University, 2014), Islamist Mobilization
in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics (University of Washington Press, 2002) and Money
Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey (University of Texas Press, 1994). She
also authored a series of history-based novels focusing on nineteenth century Ottoman
culture: The Winter Thief (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010), The Abyssinian Proof (W.
W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009), and The Sultan’s Seal (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
2007). Now with through Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence
(2021), Jenny White reaches out to her audience with a graphic novel written by her and
illustrated by Ergün Gündüz.

Keywords

Jenny White, Turkish kaleidoscope, Time of violence

Jenny White. Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Abstract