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- Borsuk, İmren, et al.
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Consolidating and Contesting Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey: Towards a Framework
- 2022
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Ingår i: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey : Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation - Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation. - Singapore : Springer Singapore. - 9789811642128 - 9789811642135 ; , s. 11-59
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the early years of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP), Turkey was seen as a burgeoning democratic power propped up by economic prosperity in line with the reforms for European Union (EU) accession and International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality. However, 20 years later, it is considered an emblematic case of democratic backsliding in line with rising poverty and inequalities that have been amplified as a result of sweeping neoliberal reforms and authoritarian consolidation in the country. The recent literature has identified these concomitant and complementary modes of authoritarian governance and neoliberal policies in Turkey as ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’. In this chapter, we discuss the dynamics of consolidation of authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey as well as the acts of contention against it. Building mainly on the eight case studies presented in this volume, we put forward a framework that explains the consolidation of authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey through the mechanisms of executive centralisation, autocratic legalism, cronyism, violence-fuelled rentier accumulation, criminalisation and stigmatisation, and contestations against authoritarian neoliberalism through strikes, protests, demonstrations, network building, litigation, everyday struggles, and armed acts of contention.
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- Borsuk, İmren, et al.
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Introduction
- 2022
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Ingår i: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey : Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation - Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation. - Singapore : Springer Singapore. - 9789811642128 - 9789811642135 ; , s. 1-10
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- Aguiar, Diana, et al.
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Transforming critical agrarian studies: : Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Peasant Studies. - 0306-6150. ; 50:2, s. 758-786
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced bycritical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We arguethat despite the historical and structural limitations, the criticaljuncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest inagrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering adiverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectivesabout, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent inmainstream scholarship dominated by the Global North. We alsopropose doing so by enhancing solidarity to transform injusticeswithin academia and other spaces of knowledge production anddissemination. To develop the argument,first, we reflect on themultiplicity of crises in rural areas and the changing character ofsocial struggles, as well as the interlinkages betweenenvironmental crises and the re-emergence of critical agrarianstudies that are reshaping the agrarian question. Then, we discussthe implications and conditions of the political agenda carriedout by a scholar-activist movement working on agrarian studiesfrom the Global South. Drawing on our experience as theCollective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS),we conclude by proposing three ways forward for enhancingsolidarity through networks of scholar-activists: knowledgeaccessibility, cooperative organization, and co-production ofknowledge
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- Kavak, Sinem, et al.
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Refugee agency in secondary mobility decision-making : A systematic literature review
- 2024
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Human Dynamics. - 2673-2726. ; 6
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decisions made by millions of refugees about where to go, how to make a living and how to secure a future are fundamental drivers of secondary movements. While a substantial body of literature addresses factors contributing to migrants’ decision-making, a comprehensive understanding of the central role of refugees in secondary mobility decision-making, including agency and strategies employed, remains underexplored. This is partly due to the belief that refugees are constrained by external and structural factors and cannot exercise agency, which we challenge. This article provides a systematic analysis of the literature on refugees’ secondary mobility decision-making processes. Using a systematic literature review (SLR) methodology, it presents an in-depth analysis of 40 peer-reviewed, English-language research articles selected from the Web of Science and Scopus databases published before September 2022. The article critically examines the drivers, prevailing dichotomies and conceptual frameworks surrounding refugee categorization, agency, and mobility. By synthesizing a wide range of literature, our paper presents emerging alternative concepts and frameworks that shed light on the complex dynamics of decision-making.
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- Kavak, Sinem
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Rethinking the political economy of rural struggles in Turkey: : Space, structures and altered agencies
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Ingår i: Journal of Agrarian Change. - : Wiley. - 1471-0366 .- 1471-0358. ; 21:2, s. 242-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run‐of‐the‐river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or inhibit the emergence of strong mobilizations through a comparison of four localities of the Eastern Black Sea region. The main aim of the cross comparison is to determine whether there is a relationship between the forms of rural livelihood (and class position) and political mobilization against SHP construction. The article offers a multilayered relational framework to analyse rural mobilizations. Through a comparative spatial analysis of material and immaterial territories, I argue that the spatio‐economic transformation of the localities that unevenly transform rural settings in terms of production and consumption activities have an impact on the patterns, discourses, and agency in contemporary “rural” mobilizations. This is especially observable with regard to upward mobility and the middle‐classization processes embedded in crop system and household accumulation opportunities. The children of upwardly mobile farmers who became city‐based middle‐class actors tend to present an estheticized and carnivalesque framing in their resistance strategies through the re‐invention of traditions and culture, whereas the lower‐class peasants voice their grievances based strictly on material concerns.
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