Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: implications of a democratic paradox?

Arat, Yeşim

doi:10.1080/01436597.2010.502712

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“…Arat claims that women's positioning under the AKP rule is detrimental to women's right to equality so far as it propagates 'patriarchal religious values promoting gender inequality and confining women to the domestic realm'. 52 The politics of gender under the AKP stresses the inherently different inborn qualities between women and men. Hence, women and men are different by nature -fıtrat which refers to the human essence with a religious connotation.…”

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Home is Where You Make it? Gender and Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Strategic Vision in the Middle East

Durgun

2016

Geopolitics

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The Justice and Development Party's (AKP) policymakers have aimed to position Turkey as the leader of the Middle East by assessing its soft power since they came to power. Drawing on Strategic Depth of Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey, this article attempts to offer a critical constructivist, postcolonial and feminist analysis of Turkey's recent foreign policy discourse in the region by showing how the myth of leadership is constitutive, and is constituted by Davutoğlu's discourses on women/femininities and men/masculinities. The leadership is imagined by localising Enlightenment notions of masculinity through a re-reading of local traditions, namely Ottoman history and Islam. In doing so, Strategic Depth aims to feminise Turkey's imagery without necessarily putting it out of the masculinity continuum. As such, Turkey mimics the West but differs from it so as to perpetuate a good masculinity over the people of the Middle East. Implicit in such an imagery, the text distinguishes itself from the competing self-perceptions (and masculinities) in the country, namely the Kemalist one. I further argue that this imagery underlies the recent hypermasculinisation of politics within and beyond the country when political elites feel threatened in the face of political crises.

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Home is Where You Make it? Gender and Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Strategic Vision in the Middle East

Durgun

2016

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“…Tanıl Bora"nın 1998"de Refah Partisi üzerinden kaleme aldıkları, bugün AKP iktidarı için de rahatlıkla söylenebilir: "Osmanlı nostaljisi, İslamcılığı çoğu kez milliyetçi-muhafazakâr ideolojinin kaynaklarına 25 AKP döneminde aile ve kadına yönelik politikalar için bkz. (Yılmaz, 2015a(Yılmaz, , 2015bCoşar ve Yeğenoğlu, 2012;Arat, 2010 geri götürür, oradan da milliyetçiliğe rücu ettirir; daha çok ülkücülerin beslendiği bir hayal olan "Müslüman-Türk"ün cihan hâkimiyeti mefkûresine kanalize eder " (2003: 137). Türklük vurgusu günümüz koşullarında yerini "büyük", "yeni" Türkiye vurgusuna bırakmıştır; ama alt metinde Türklerin en kötü ihtimalle eşitler arasında birinci kabul edildiği açıktır.…”

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Postkolonyal bir “dava” olarak “Yeni Türkiye”nin yeni ulusu

Aktoprak¹

2016

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi

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Bu çalışmanın amacı AKP"nin ulus inşa sürecini postkolonyal milliyetçilik açısından değerlendirmektir. AKP"nin "Yeni Türkiye" sloganı ve dava misyonu arasındaki ilişki ve çelişkilerin, AKP"nin kendisini yerleştirdiği postkolonyal bağlamda çözümlenmesinin, AKP"nin "ulusu"nu anlamak açısından elzem olduğu düşünülmektedir. AKP"nin dinsel milliyetçiliğinin postkolonyal milliyetçilik bağlamında değerlendirilmesinin temel nedeni, AKP"nin kendisini sömürgeci bir düzeni yıkan kurucu iktidar olarak görmesi ve dayandığı tabanın da kendisini bir ulusal kurtuluş hareketi gibi tanımlamasıdır. AKP"nin "sömürgecisi" fiili bir işgalci değil, zihniyet işgalcisidir ve bu "öteki" genel bağlamda Batı olarak kodlansa da Türkiye özelinde Kemalizmdir. AKP"nin kendi "sömürgecisi"ne karşı geliştirdiği postkolonyal miliyetçilik Partha Chatterjee"nin postkolonyal milliyetçilikler içi sunduğu 3 evrede ve Chatterjee"nin maddi-manevi alan kavramları çerçevesinde incelenecek (1996); özellikle AKP"nin kurucu aktör olduğu varış evresi ve bu evredeki ulus inşa sürecine odaklanılacaktır.Anahtar Sözcükler: AKP, "Yeni Türkiye", Postkolonyalizm, Postkolonyal Milliyetçilik, Dinsel Milliyetçilik New Nation of the "New Turkey" as a Postcolonial "Cause" AbstractThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the nation building process under the AKP government in the context of postcolonial nationalism. It is thought that analyzing the relations and contradictions between the slogan of "New Turkey" and the mission of "cause" in the context of postcolonial nationalism is vital to understand the "nation" of the AKP. The basic reason of assessing religious nationalism of the AKP in the context of postcolonial nationalism is that the self-description of the AKP cadres and grassroots. Both identify the AKP as a founding power and as a national liberation movement against a colonial power. The "colonial power" of the AKP is not defined by basing on a colonial invasion, but colonization of mentalities. Although "the colonial other" is defined as West in generic terms, it is Kemalism in the context of Turkey. The postcolonial nationalism of the AKP will be studied according to 3 main phases of Partha Chatterjee and his terms, like material-spritual domains, will be followed in this analysis. Especially, it will be focused on the last phase in which the AKP has undertaken the role of founding other and has begun to build its "nation".

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“…One of the aspects of Turkey and the Turkish culture that is of special relevance to research on selfhood and identity is the almost universal sense of paradoxicality that permeates so many levels and registers of reality and discourse in that country (Arat, ; Kandiyoti & Saktanber, ; Lewis, ; Livanios, ). This paradoxicality starts from the deepest levels of collective identity and continues all the way to the relationship between the land and the culture of the people living on it.…”

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Power, Self, and Psychosis: Examining Political Subjectivity Through Schizophrenia

Rahimi

2015

Psychotherapy and Politics International

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A meaning‐oriented approach is employed to analyse recurring themes in the psychotic speech of a young woman inpatient diagnosed with schizophrenia in Istanbul, Turkey. The analyses aim to investigate the form and nature of the relationship between the subjective content of psychosis and the local sociocultural context. This article illustrates the significant role played by semiotic processes in embedding the individual sense of self and identity within collective systems of meaning. More specifically, this article highlights the ways in which local structures of power and meaning become intertwined with the sense of self at the deepest levels of the organisation of subjective experience. The notion of political subjectivity is proposed as a descriptive term for that process. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: implications of a democratic paradox?

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Home is Where You Make it? Gender and Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Strategic Vision in the Middle East

Home is Where You Make it? Gender and Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Strategic Vision in the Middle East

Postkolonyal bir “dava” olarak “Yeni Türkiye”nin yeni ulusu

Power, Self, and Psychosis: Examining Political Subjectivity Through Schizophrenia

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