Remaking the public through the square: invention of the new national cosmology in Turkey

Küçük, Bülent; Türkmen, Buket

doi:10.1080/13530194.2018.1491295

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“…And these megaprojects, according to them, are the driving engines of Turkey’s rise to global prominence (also see Kumral, 2022: 20). They also framed their street protests against the failed Gülenist military coup of 2016 as a people’s uprising to protect megaprojects (Küçük and Türkmen, 2020; Tuğal, 2021). The argument that megaprojects are outside the realm of popular contention is commonplace in the neoliberalism literature.…”

Section: The Allure Of Megaprojectsmentioning

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Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism

Tuğal

2022

Critical Sociology

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Scholars have argued that megaprojects’ turn away from issues of employment, and mass housing are among the core traits of neoliberalism. Turkey, though once seen as a paragon of neoliberalism, problematizes this generalization. Erdoğanist megaprojects have created jobs and residence for millions, and garner consent. ‘Embedded neoliberalism’, a concept frequently used to explain increasing state involvement under neoliberalism, sheds light on the governing AKP’s power, but is insufficient in explaining its core dynamics. Whereas the ‘embedded neoliberalism’ literature downplays the role of the government as a producer, the ‘state capitalism’ literature, as applied to Turkey, overrates the extent to which this country has moved away from neoliberalism. The concept ‘neoliberal statism’ (which puts the emphasis on the consent-generating and political aspects of the new economy) better captures the AKP’s path. Megaproject-driven growth and popular consent, however, are restricted by vulnerabilities that also afflict neoliberal statism as a broader growth strategy.

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Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism

Tuğal

2022

Critical Sociology

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“…Thanks to a variety of scholars who have examined this question from individual, organizational, and structural levels, we have a rich set of findings on protests and state responses to mass uprisings (Beissinger 1998;Grimm and Harders 2018;Hafez 2003;Kuran 1991;Lichbach 1998;Lohmann 1994;Rasler 1996;Sullivan 2016). Yet, except for a few (Esen and Gumuscu 2017;Hellmeier and Weidmann 2020;Küçük and Türkmen 2020;Robertson 2011;Smyth et al 2013;Hellmeier and Weidmann 2020), studies have generally left a segment of the masses out of their analyses -those who are not among the rulers but are supportive of the ruling elite. These government supporters can have important implications for the power balance between the masses and the ruling elites and the repression-dissent nexus.…”

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Introducing the Turkey Protest, Repression, and Pro-Government Rally Dataset (TPRPGRD)

Kahvecioğlu

Demirel-Pegg

Aytürk

2022

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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The repression-protest nexus in authoritarian regimes has attracted scholarly attention of contention scholars for a long time. However, studies have generally overlooked pro-government actors' role in contentious dynamics. This article introduces an original event dataset on protests, repression, and pro-government rallies in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party during a period in which authoritarianism has increased in intensity. Using protest event analysis, this dataset includes actions of governments, pro-government actors, and dissidents hand-coded from two newspapers between 1 January 2013, and 31 December 2016. The dataset enables researchers to study pro-government rallies (PGRs), anti-government protests, and state actions during a heightened period of contention in Turkey.

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“…In the West of the BtB, Erdogan’s charisma and a series of philanthropic and media projects have gained him support within and beyond Turkey, particularly among Sunni Muslims (Akdoğan 2017; Carkoglu 2014; Martin 2015). The common theme in those investments is the revivalist dreams, presenting the Ottoman legacy as a protector against non‐Muslims, from the (Albanian and Bosnian) Muslim minorities in the Balkans to Sunni Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa (Cagaptay 2009; Cetin 2014; Küçük and Türkmen 2018; Rüma 2010; Tabak 2016; Walton 2010; Yavuz 1998). In the East, the charismatic leaders of Islamists and Sufi groups (i.e.…”

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Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities

Sehlikoglu

2021

Soc Anthropol

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Remaking the public through the square: invention of the new national cosmology in Turkey

Cited by 36 publications

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Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism

Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism

Introducing the Turkey Protest, Repression, and Pro-Government Rally Dataset (TPRPGRD)

Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities

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