Academia and authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: the embodied consequences of the ‘peace petition’

Tutkal, Serhat

doi:10.1080/02680939.2021.1990414

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“…More than 6000 academics have been dismissed in Turkey since September 2016, and 549 of them were signatories of the aforementioned 'peace petition'. 11 While not all signatories have been dismissed, considering that this number only includes academics that were directly dismissed by public universities, and thus, excludes people that were fired by private universities, resigned, or were working at foreign institutions in the first place, it can be seen that the pressure on peace academics was unprecedented in its scope.…”

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Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict

Tutkal

2022

Comm

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This essay focuses on the anti-intellectualism in Turkey in relation to the oppression, persecution, and discrediting of critical academics. It shows how this anti-intellectualism affects the reproduction and re-legitimation of war policies in regards to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. To this end, first it presents excerpts from in-depth interviews with academics who were dismissed from universities by presidential decrees for signing a peace petition criticizing the military operations and human rights violations in Kurdish-majority cities. Subsequently, it shows some Twitter entries from a larger dataset where critical academics are attacked to legitimize police violence in a university campus. It concludes with underlining the importance of re-legitimation of critical academics and intellectual work in Turkey if authoritarianism is to be overcome.

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Section: Anti-intellectualism In Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict

Tutkal

2022

Comm

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The Classroom as Praxis: An Autoethnographic Approach Towards a Critical Journalism Assignment in Turkey

Nas

2022

Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South

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Neoliberal reform discourse in Egyptian higher education

Esmat

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The global neoliberal discourse on Higher Education (HE) reform has become dominant in both the developed and developing worlds. The paper tackles the Egyptian HE reforms that have been produced in line with the global neoliberal discourse through the World Bank’s (WB) funded reform projects. Through Foucauldian discourse and genealogical analysis, the study questioned, troubled, and de-naturalized the inevitability and persistence of the neoliberal discourse in Egyptian HE. Far from being deterministic and rational, the process of transfer of the global neoliberal discourse to Egyptian HE was embedded in the interaction of a number of discursive and structural selectivities as captured by the Strategic Relational Approach. On one hand, privatization, cost-sharing strategies, and quality assurance systems constituted the major policy reforms produced by the neoliberal discourse. On the other hand academic freedoms, university autonomy, and equitable access to HE have been discursively disallowed, de-problematized and excluded. The 25th of January revolution represented a discontinuity that threatened the collapse of the neoliberal discourse while the crushing of the revolution perpetuated and reinforced the neoliberal discourse reflecting a mutual relationship between neoliberal and authoritarian discourses and governmentalities.

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Academia and authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: the embodied consequences of the ‘peace petition’

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict

Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict

The Classroom as Praxis: An Autoethnographic Approach Towards a Critical Journalism Assignment in Turkey

Neoliberal reform discourse in Egyptian higher education

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