Neo-conservatism, Sovereign Power and Bio-power: Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Turkey

Altunok, Gülbanu

doi:10.1080/23760818.2016.1201244

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“…However, beginning with the third term of the AKP (2011), there has been a remarkable shift in party's approach to gender policies. The AKP began to strongly emphasize women's designated roles as "mothers" and to promote pro-natal policies (Altunok, 2016;Güneş-Ayata & Doğangün, 2017;Kandiyoti, 2016). In such an increasing patriarchal domination of the AKP and its authoritarian grip on power, Turkey began to witness the dismantling of existing progressive gender policies and the exclusion of autonomous women's CSOs from policymaking processes.…”

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“…Turkey's imperfect democracy turned into a form of "competitive authoritarianism" 1 (Esen & Gumuscu, 2016;Öniş, 2013). With the rise of authoritarianism, patriarchal notions and conservative family values have become more salient in the AKP's political discourse on women (Acar & Altunok, 2013;Altunok, 2016;Güneş-Ayata & Doğangün, 2017;Kandiyoti, 2015Kandiyoti, , 2016. The patriarchal control of gender relations leads to a perpetual conflict between the government and women's organizations struggling for women's equal rights.…”

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Gendered Strategies between Democratization and Democratic Reversal: The Curious Case of Turkey

Aksoy

2018

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The processes of democratization or democratic reversal have serious implications for gender equality regimes. Although the gender and transition literature has extensively examined the relation between democratization and gender, it only recently began to question how the changing dynamics of democratic reversal influence gender politics and policies. While women’s participation and representation in the formal arena of politics has been the primary object of theoretical discussions, the research rediscovers the power of the informal arena. To find tentative answers to the newly developing research agenda, this article employs the case of Turkey. To this end, the article examines the gendered strategies of four groups of organized women (feminist, Kurdish, Islamist, and Kemalist women’s organizations) engaged in strengthening women’s rights and gender equality. It first questions how, and to what extent, organized women en<em>gendered </em>democratization process and then sheds lights on the shift in their strategies to respond to the increasingly authoritarian and conservative Islamist political agenda of the ruling Justice and Development Party. Drawing on empirical findings, the article aims to inform the theoretical debates on the analytical relation between democratic reversals and gender rights regimes.

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Gendered Strategies between Democratization and Democratic Reversal: The Curious Case of Turkey

Aksoy

2018

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“…The early 2000s witnessed the circulation of political declarations concerning pro-population policies in Turkey (Ünal & Cindioğlu, 2013, Altunok, 2016Korkut, & Eslen-Ziya, 2017). This, in turn, created a discursive space about reproduction choices.…”

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Discursive Governance Over Pro-Population Politics in Turkey

Pehlivanli-Kadayifci¹,

Eslen‐Ziya²,

Korkut³

2020

Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Discursive governance of pro-population politics refers to norm-based mechanisms of governance that utilise intentionally selected slogans in political discourse for dissemination of ideas to further the interests of political authorities. Such ideas can be disseminated via modern communication technologies enabling governance to build social representations within the public sphere without policy constraints. It is our proposal that the pro-population state discourse in Turkey after 2008 constitutes an example of discursive governance. Our findings show that discursive mechanisms can lead to a change in married couples' reproductive attitude without significant policy alteration and further the debate in view of discursive governance of population politics.

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“…In the last decade, discourse on sexuality has proliferated in an unprecedented way in the political realm in Turkey (Acar and Altunok, 2013; Cindoğlu and Unal, 2015; Coşar and Yeğenoğlu, 2011). In particular, the discursive utilization of women’s bodies and sexualities has appeared as the main tool to consolidate the conservative gender regime (Altunok, 2016; Korkman, 2015; Unal and Cindoğlu, 2013). The heterosexual family with children is promoted as the basic unit to reinforce hegemonic moral values and norms.…”

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Gender and sexuality in the authoritarian discursive strategies of ‘New Turkey’

Cindoğlu

Ünal

2016

European Journal of Women's Studies

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In the last decade, discourse on sexuality has proliferated more than ever in the political realm in Turkey. The discursive utilization of women's bodies and sexualities has appeared as the main tool to consolidate a conservative gender regime and the heterosexual family with children is promoted as the basic unit to reinforce hegemonic moral values and norms. This article aims to disentangle the intricate patchwork in the Justice and Development Party's (JDP) gender politics, which is geared towards ensuring pervasive control of women's bodies and sexualities. Within this framework, this article investigates the proliferation of the discourse on women's bodies and sexualities in Turkish politics by delving into the constitutive factors of the JDP's hegemonic gender politics and examining the narrative lines in recent public debates on women's sexualities.

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Neo-conservatism, Sovereign Power and Bio-power: Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Turkey

Cited by 22 publications

References 11 publications

Gendered Strategies between Democratization and Democratic Reversal: The Curious Case of Turkey

Gendered Strategies between Democratization and Democratic Reversal: The Curious Case of Turkey

Discursive Governance Over Pro-Population Politics in Turkey

Gender and sexuality in the authoritarian discursive strategies of ‘New Turkey’

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