Radicalisation of politics and production of new alternatives: rethinking the secular/Islamic divide after the Gezi Park protests in Turkey

Damar, Erdem

doi:10.1080/14782804.2016.1167677

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“…In 2013, citizens gathered in Gezi Park as well as the country's big cities and abroad to demonstrate in support of individual freedoms and rights against government repression. Extant research shows that participants in Gezi came from diverse backgrounds and political orientations 1 (Acar and Uluğ 2016;Chrona and Bee, forthcoming;Damar 2016). The Gezi events were marked by high levels of youth participation in street protests between May and July 2013, which come in sharp contrast with the low levels of political participation traditionally reported for the country (Bozkurt, Çok and Sener 2015;Cankurtaran, Buz and Hatiboğlu 2013).…”

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The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

Chrona

Capelos

2016

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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This article aims to understand the recent heightened levels of mobilization and unconventional political participation in Turkey. We use a political psychology model that highlights the impact of civic engagement, political sophistication, and values on conventional and unconventional participation. We argue that these factors will be significant predictors of unconventional participation setting it apart from conventional political behaviour, which will be driven by simpler considerations. We expect these qualitative differences in the drivers of conventional and unconventional participation to go beyond age and gender differences and highlight the complexity of political decision-making in Turkey's electoral authoritarian system. We use the 2012 World Value Survey to test our hypotheses, with a nationally representative sample of Turkish citizens. We find significant variations in the role of values, sophistication and levels of civic engagement for conventional and unconventional participation when controlling for age, gender and left-right ideological orientations. Our findings confirm the complex considerations that drive citizens' engagement with politics and can be useful to explaining recent political developments in Turkey involving youth, public mobilization and protests, but also mainstream voting choices.

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The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

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Capelos

2016

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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“…A few studies looked at the recent changes in the public sphere offering insights into the way that the public and in particular activists organize and act (Bee, 2017;Bee & Kaya, 2017). Several scholars have pointed to the creation of new social dynamics that relax the clear-cut boundaries of secularism-Islamism (Acar & Uluğ, 2016;Bayramoğlu, 2009;Damar, 2016;Turam, 2015). The 2013 and 2016 political developments generated a new wave of strong emotions that shook again the social and political life of Turkey.…”

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The Map to the Heart: An Analysis of Political Affectivity in Turkey

Capelos

Chrona

2018

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This study examines the complexity of citizens’ political affectivity in Turkey. Drawing from componential models of affect, we rely on situational (motive consistent versus inconsistent) and motivational state (gain or loss) appraisals to test hypotheses on systematic differences in the clusters of political affect that span beyond the traditionally measured discrete emotional reactions of anger, hope, pride and fear. Using qualitative interview data from 2012, we develop a topography of affect clusters and systems of associations between political concepts. We find citizens express their emotionality in rich terms. They are linked to appraisals of multiple political objects, they reflect aversive, anxious, loss and gain oriented emotional responses, and they are guided by citizens’ ideological orientations. This study is valuable as it addresses a significant gap in the study of political affect going beyond their discrete categorizations. It introduces a mapping methodology as an effective way of capturing the complexity of affect systems, and it reveals powerful insights into the depth and richness of emotions based on appraisal dimensions, enriching our understanding of political tensions and developments in Turkish politics and beyond.

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“…Both the farmers’ protest and those at Gezi Park made use of religion to create new solidarities, with the former embracing Sikh and various syncretic practices and the latter embracing Islamic practices (Damar 2016). These protests demonstrate that an embrace of religion is not antithetical to liberal democracy and is not necessarily a harbinger of exclusion or oppression (Behl 2019).…”

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India’s Farmers’ Protest: An Inclusive Vision of Indian Democracy

Behl

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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India, the world’s largest democracy, has been experiencing a democratic decline. Since coming to power in 2014 and winning reelection in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party have become increasingly illiberal and authoritarian. The rule of law has deteriorated, rights and liberties have been curtailed, and scholars and the media have been silenced. If electoral constraint, constitutional design, judicial independence, and a free press haven’t slowed India’s march toward illiberalism, what can? In November 2020, India’s farmers began a highly organized protest against the government. In this research note, I ask, how has this protest protected Indian democracy from further degradation, and has it radically altered India’s political future? I argue that the farmers’ protest provides an alternative vision of democracy, one rooted in radical egalitarianism. Protesting farmers have actualized the spirit of dissent enshrined in the Indian constitution by holding the current government accountable to it.

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Radicalisation of politics and production of new alternatives: rethinking the secular/Islamic divide after the Gezi Park protests in Turkey

Cited by 20 publications

References 16 publications

The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

The Map to the Heart: An Analysis of Political Affectivity in Turkey

India’s Farmers’ Protest: An Inclusive Vision of Indian Democracy

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