Contents -- Foreword - Joel S. Migdal -- Introduction: A State-in-Society Agenda - Adam White -- Part I. The Everyday Life of the Turkish State -- 1. Seeing the State: Kinship Networks and Kurdish Resistance in Early Republican Turkey - Ceren Belge -- 2. Rethinking Turkish State-Kurdish Relations - Nicole F. Watts -- 3. State-Society Relations and Religious Freedom: The United States, France, and Turkey - Ahmet T. Kuru -- 4. Prison as a Space of State-Society Contestation: The Case of Turkish F-Type Prisons - Arda Ibikoglu -- Part II. The Everyday Life of the Israeli State -- 5. Nationalisms Compete: The Boundaries of Arab Political Participation in Israel - Maha El-Taji Daghash -- 6. Nation Building and Regulation of Pluri-legal Jurisdictions: The Case of the Israeli Millet System - Yüksel Sezgin -- 7. Collaborating with the Image of the State, Resisting Its Practices, or Both? Israeli Jewish Women's Political Activism - Lauren L. Basson -- 8. The Politics of Fracture: Identity, Difference, and Fissures in the Image of the Singular, Unified Israeli State - Patricia J. Woods -- Part III. The Everyday Life of the State in Asia and North Africa -- 9. Revelation and Redemption: Colonial Precedents for the Politics of Islam in India and Malaysia - Iza Hussin -- 10. (Re)Creating Democracy through Practice: Insights from the Japanese Experience - Mary Alice Haddad -- 11. Negotiating National Identity: Berber Activismand the Moroccan State - Senem Aslan -- 12. Challenging the Practice of the State, but Beholden toIts Image: Women's Activists, Academics, and the Public Take on Egypt's Citizenship Laws - Pamela J. Stumpo -- Conclusion - Benjamin Smith -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.