from Part II - The Grassroots Mobilization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2025
In conclusion, Chapter 7 revisits the broad empirical and theoretical questions of this book. I highlight the key findings and implications of this study for the Turkish case and for world-making movements, generally. In addition, the chapter offers a subsection looking at how, for over two decades now, the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has contributed to the cultural groundwork. More broadly, this subsection shows how AKP-era politics empirically verifies the theoretical argument of the book: that we can better understand social movement resistance by examining the relationship between semiotic and material struggles and especially the processes by which activists integrate personal and political endeavors, first, by creating shared dispositions between mobilizing agents and their followers and, second, by securing consent for their dissident worldview. Across the Middle East and the globe, religious politics exerts significant influence to change or preserve existing modalities of state-society relations. In the final section of the Conclusion, I reflect on the lessons that can be drawn from the Turkish Islamist movement to improve our understanding of non-Muslim religious movements and contentious politics more broadly.
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