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Author:   Prof. Pinar Bedirhanoglu (Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey) ,  Çaglar Dölek (Carleton University, Canada) ,  Funda Hülagü (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany) ,  Özlem Kaygusuz (Ankara University, Turkey)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781786998712

ISBN 10:   1786998718
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Global political context of state transformation 1. Social constitution of the AKP’s strong state through financialization: State in crisis, or crisis state? 2. Deconstitutionalization and the state crisis in Turkey: What role for the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights? 3. Turkey’s double movement: Islamists, neoliberalism, and foreign policy 4. The shift of axis or business as usual? Turkey’s S-400 procurement decision and defense industry Part II: Politics of economic management 5. Understanding the recent rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in terms of the structural contradictions of capital accumulation process 6. Turkey’s financial slide: Discipline by credit in the last decade of the AKP rule 7. AKP’s move from depoliticization to repoliticization in economic management 8. AKP’s income-differentiated housing strategies under the pressure of resistance and debt Part III: Politics of domination 9. The transformation of the state-religion relationship under the AKP: The case of the Diyanet 10. From military tutelage to nowhere: On the limitations of civil-military dualism in making sense of the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in the 2010s 11. Courtrooms as solidarity spaces and trials as sentences: Defending your rights and asking for accountability in Turkey 12. SETA: From AKP’s organic intellectuals to AK-paratchiks Part IV: Politics of coercion 13. Domesticating politics, de-gendering women: State violence against politically active women in Turkey 14. War on drugs: A view from Turkey 15. “The law of the city?”: Social war, urban warfare, and dispossession on the margin

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'This book includes the best scholarly work currently available on the political economy of Turkey. The chapters in this volume address neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the strengths and fragilities of the rule of the AKP in great detail, consistency, and reaching strikingly innovative and important conclusions. This work is indispensable for anyone working on contemporary Turkey.' Alfredo Saad Filho, King's College London 'This is an excellent book of critical and courageous argument and examination. It is indispensable for anybody who wants to know what is going on in the Turkish Republic under the Erdogan governments.' Werner Bonefeld, The University of York Turkish political economy has a new milestone. Empirically- and theoretically-rich, this book relentlessly traverses the neoliberal and financial transformation of Turkey under the AKP, posing an uncompromising challenge to the course of Turkish democracy and development. Read it. I say again: Read it! Thomas Marois, School of Oriental and African Studies

'This is an excellent book of critical and courageous argument and examination. It is indispensable for anybody who wants to know what is going on in the Turkish Republic under the Erdogan governments. * Werner Bonefeld, The University of York * This book includes the best scholarly work currently available on the political economy of Turkey. The chapters in this volume address neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the strengths and fragilities of the rule of the AKP in great detail, consistency, and reaching strikingly innovative and important conclusions. This work is indispensable for anyone working on contemporary Turkey. * Alfredo Saad Filho, King's College London * Turkish political economy has a new milestone. Empirically- and theoretically-rich, this book relentlessly traverses the neoliberal and financial transformation of Turkey under the AKP, posing an uncompromising challenge to the course of Turkish democracy and development. Read it. I say again: Read it! * Thomas Marois, School of Oriental and African Studies *

'This is an excellent book of critical and courageous argument and examination. It is indispensable for anybody who wants to know what is going on in the Turkish Republic under the Erdogan governments. * Werner Bonefeld, The University of York * This book includes the best scholarly work currently available on the political economy of Turkey. The chapters in this volume address neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the strengths and fragilities of the rule of the AKP in great detail, consistency, and reaching strikingly innovative and important conclusions. This work is indispensable for anyone working on contemporary Turkey. * Alfredo Saad Filho, King’s College London * Turkish political economy has a new milestone. Empirically- and theoretically-rich, this book relentlessly traverses the neoliberal and financial transformation of Turkey under the AKP, posing an uncompromising challenge to the course of Turkish democracy and development. Read it. I say again: Read it! * Thomas Marois, School of Oriental and African Studies *

Author Information

Pinar Bedirhanoglu is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Politics at York University in Toronto, Canada. Caglar Dolek received his Ph.D. degree in Sociology with a Collaborative Specialization in Political Economy from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 2019. Funda Hülagü works as a research associate at the Department of Political Science, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. Özlem Kaygusuz is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey.

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