Politicisation as Governing Strategy Versus Resistance: Demystifying Capitalist Social Relations and the State in Turkey

Dönmez, Pınar E.

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“…Scholars should not neglect the implications of this apparent separation, but nor should they replicate it. Dönmez’s (2019) notion of politicisation as resistance is informative precisely because it challenges us to demystify the taken-for-granted character of social forms. Furthermore, this framework is wholly compatible with the view that ‘particular depoliticising and politicising ‘actions’ always affect the broader context of political disengagement, but are also shaped and influenced by that disengagement’ (Fawcett et al, 2017a: 291).…”

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“…The events outlined in this article reflect this moment of crystallisation which is, of course, historically and contextually specific. Broad generalisations, therefore, should be avoided (Dönmez, 2019: 163). Nonetheless, as Bailey (2017: 2) argues, the merit of studying social movements that disrupt relations of domination is not because they can necessarily be replicated, but because we can learn what ‘might hopefully be done better, and more, next time around’.…”

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“…Strategies of resistance can enjoy relative success when the apparent exclusivity of the political is undermined, politicising that which has been privatised and, potentially, disrupting the capitalist order (Burnham, 2014: 203). What Dönmez (2019: 164–165) has termed politicisation as resistance – challenging the class basis of capitalist society – is the process through which we can demystify social relations. Resistance, in this sense, can deformalise politics and weaponise it to challenge relations of domination at the heart of the state.…”

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“…Despite this perspective’s primary association with theorising the state (Bonefeld, 1992; Burnham, 1994; Clarke, 1991), here, inspiration is drawn from contributions focused more directly on the emancipatory potential of labour (Dinerstein and Neary, 2001a) and recent efforts to conceptualise politicisation as resistance (Dönmez, 2019). In contrast to much mainstream social movements literature, therefore, the article draws on an analysis of capitalism and the capital-labour relation (see Barker et al, 2013; Dönmez, 2019: 156). Labour is taken as an ‘active subject’ in both the reproduction of capitalist social relations and their transformation (Clarke, 2001: 50).…”

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(Re)politicising ‘the governmental’: Resisting the Industrial Relations Act 1971

Warner

2019

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article is an account of the failure of the Industrial Relations Act that places resistance at its heart. This is achieved through application of the (de/re)politicisation framework, uncovering how this attempt to depoliticise the reform of industrial relations was resisted and re-politicisation achieved. The article argues that (re)politicisation is best understood through an analysis of informal processes of struggle involving non-governmental actors. By adopting a critical political economy perspective informed by Open Marxism, the so-called state-centrism of the governmental level is eschewed. New archival evidence demonstrates the importance of not only addressing the imposition of this governing strategy, but also the active role of organised labour when engaged in resistance to it. Thus, this article steps ‘beyond the governmental’ to argue that adequate conceptualisation of resistance at the societal level is a necessary part of understanding how depoliticised governing is shaped, imposed, transformed and potentially undermined.

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(Re)politicising ‘the governmental’: Resisting the Industrial Relations Act 1971

Warner

2019

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Secondly, by analysing the peculiar trajectories of depoliticisation in a state characterised by the traditionally dirigiste and politicised forms of economic management. Indeed, the literature is, with a few exceptions (Dönmez and Zemandl 2018;Dönmez 2019), largely Anglo-Saxon-centric and focuses mainly on depoliticisation strategies pursued in Liberal Market Economies (LMEs) (see Hall and Soskice 2001;Hancké, Rhodes and Thatcher 2007).…”

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Transnational Depoliticisation and Industrial Policy: The European Commission and French Steel (1980–1984)

Moraitis

2019

New Political Economy

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British immigration policy, depoliticisation and Brexit

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Sutton

2020

Comp Eur Polit

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This paper seeks to problematize the historical significance of the EU for British governing strategy with reference to immigration policy and the concept of depoliticisation. Situating British governing strategy in terms of the crisis-prone nature of capitalist society, this paper argues that British immigration policy has been depoliticised through, initially, the invocation of globalisation and, more recently, the EU. Through this strategy, the British state has been able to repeatedly claim that immigration policy is largely out of its hands, as they have no control over workers wishing to enter Britain looking for work. This paper makes three claims: firstly, immigration policy has been used as a means by both Conservative and Labour governments to manage inflation and labour; secondly, successive governments have sought to depoliticise immigration policy through reference to external forces; thirdly, this strategy of depoliticisation ultimately failed, politicising Britain's relationship with the EU and creating conditions for Britain's exit from the EU.

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Politicisation as Governing Strategy Versus Resistance: Demystifying Capitalist Social Relations and the State in Turkey

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

(Re)politicising ‘the governmental’: Resisting the Industrial Relations Act 1971

(Re)politicising ‘the governmental’: Resisting the Industrial Relations Act 1971

Transnational Depoliticisation and Industrial Policy: The European Commission and French Steel (1980–1984)

British immigration policy, depoliticisation and Brexit

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