Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of Terrorism

Bonditti, Philippe

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“…1930'lardan itibaren ise terör dendiğinde akla doğrudan devlet gelmiş, Nazizm ve Stalinizm gibi totaliter ideolojilerin devlet şiddetini alabildiğince uyguladığı devletler "terörist" olarak nitelenmiştir. Terörizmin günümüzdeki anlamına ulaşması ise 1970'lerden itibaren ona dair bilginin örgütlenmesi ve kurumsallaşması ile olmuştur (Stampnitzky, 2013;Ditrych, 2014;Bonditti, 2017;Erlenbusch-Anderson, 2018;Martini, 2021;McQuade, 2021).…”

Section: İkti̇dar İli̇şki̇leri̇ Bağlaminda Teröri̇zm Sorununun İnşasiunclassified

Terörist Özneyi Tarihselleştirmek: İktidar İlişkileri Çerçevesinde Türkiye’de Terörizm Söyleminin İnşası (1973-1980)

Beyribey¹

2022

Alternatif Politika

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Terrorism research in Turkey ignores historical and spatial formation of the terrorist subject, treating it as if it were historically fixed. The terrorist subject, on the other hand, is not in the position of transcending all historical times; it is formed as a result of power struggles and power relations in a society. This paper examines the constitution of the terrorist subject in Turkey in the context of power struggles and social developments in the 1970s, drawing on the post-positivist ontological and epistemological contributions of critical terrorism studies. Accordingly, it will be argued that there were two main narratives during the construction of the hegemonic terrorist subject in Turkey in the 1970s within the framework of the power struggle between the Turkish Right and the CHP. Moreover, it will be examined how the declaration of martial law following the Maraş Massacre and the subsequent September 12 Coup hegemonized the narrative of the Turkish Right by fixing the terrorist subject in history. The data for the analysis came from the Parliamentary Minutes.

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Terörist Özneyi Tarihselleştirmek: İktidar İlişkileri Çerçevesinde Türkiye’de Terörizm Söyleminin İnşası (1973-1980)

Beyribey¹

2022

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“…).” The defining concepts vis-à-vis a problem, therefore, result from problematization. As Bonditti (2017; emphasis in original ) argues, “a concept emerges of necessity in a field of knowledge and practice faced with a practical problem ” (p. 158). Thus, the analysis of a problematization concerns the way a phenomenon becomes the subject of power/knowledge by constituting it as a problem.…”

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“…It can be assumed, based on this theoretical perspective, that terrorism was transformed into an issue rather than appearing as a problem in and of itself (Bonditti, 2017). Once terrorism has become a problem for national security, “power is used as a practice that constitutes, legitimizes, produces and re-produces a host of knowledges and practices to ensure that certain modes of responses to terrorism are pre-conditioned and employed” (Campos, 2007: 3).…”

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“…In this perspective, the problematization of terrorism was always fluid: there were narratives and counter-narratives about how terrorism can be defined universally and were always in juxtaposition (Ditrych, 2014; Erlenbusch-Anderson, 2018). This involves evaluating terrorism as part of a transformational process in which various “universal” lines are recast into everyday politics to define the legitimate boundaries of subjectivity (Bigo, 2017; Bonditti, 2017).…”

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“…The history of thought, understood in this way, is the history of the way people begin to take care of something, of the way they become anxious about this or that-for example, about madness, about crime, about sex, about themselves, or about truth. (p. 74) It can be assumed, based on this theoretical perspective, that terrorism was transformed into an issue rather than appearing as a problem in and of itself (Bonditti, 2017). Once terrorism has become a problem for national security, "power is used as a practice that constitutes, legitimizes, produces and re-produces a host of knowledges and practices to ensure that certain modes of responses to terrorism are pre-conditioned and employed" (Campos, 2007: 3).…”

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Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s

Beyribey¹

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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In critical terrorism analysis, (counter-)terrorism is thought to be a discursive formation of power/knowledge comprised of some security experts from governments, the media, and academics. However, this one-sided articulation ignores the struggles in the concept of terrorism between historical narratives and counter-narratives, and it may be understood as a conceptual site where different political actors interpret it universally to strengthen or resist preexisting power relations. This article proposes that the problematization of terrorism can be studied by evaluating opposing narratives produced by political actors aiming to assert their power positions, drawing on Foucault’s analysis of problematization. From this theoretical perspective, this article examines how terrorism was problematized in relation to political violence in Turkey between 1971 and 1977, and how political actors used the concept of terrorism as a site for power struggle to gain dominant positions or weaken others, insofar as discrete ideological attitudes (communism and neo-fascism/racism, respectively) were abnormalized by universalizing them as a part of “international” terrorism. In this sense, the article contends that examining terrorism as a “universalized” site of power struggle can improve the analytical framework of critical terrorism studies by integrating the possibility of counter-narratives and, as a result, contradictions in the terrorism discourse.

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Mattelart¹

2019

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Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of Terrorism

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Terörist Özneyi Tarihselleştirmek: İktidar İlişkileri Çerçevesinde Türkiye’de Terörizm Söyleminin İnşası (1973-1980)

Terörist Özneyi Tarihselleştirmek: İktidar İlişkileri Çerçevesinde Türkiye’de Terörizm Söyleminin İnşası (1973-1980)

Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s

For an Archaeology of the Cult of the Number

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