Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K.Korkman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Don't believe in fortune-telling, but don't do without it either" (Fala inanma, falsz da kalma).Like everyone who has talked about fortune-telling in Turkey, I heard this phrase many times in my life.But I had never thought beyond its immediate meaning "Enjoy it as a pastime, but don't get too carried away with it."Gendered Fortunes is a deep, theoretical, and ethnographic meditation on what this phrase means and does for the precarious laborers, consumers, and intimate publics of divination in neoliberal and postsecular Turkey.Korkman argues that the interplay between belief and skepticism in this phrase on fortune-telling reflects a broader relation of the secular Muslim subject to her faith and identity in postsecular times.Unlike most of the ethnographic work on Muslim women's subjectivities with regard to religion and gender, Gendered Fortunes focuses on secular rather than pious Muslims.The postsecular appears in the book as an analytic to explore the secular/religious dichotomy beyond a simplistic opposition between a historically elite secular imposition and a contemporary popular religious reaction.Korkman shows that both during the foundation of the republic and in contemporary authoritarian postsecular Turkey, drawing the deviant contours of national identity always depended on marking the classed, racialized, and gendered others and producing public feelings toward them, such as contempt, fear, and desire.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".