Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey

Dönmez, Pınar E.; Zemandl, Eva J.

doi:10.1080/13563467.2017.1421624

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“…The 1990s, marked by multiple political, financial and legitimacy crises of the state and social relations, did not close with yet another military intervention but a comprehensive shift to a depoliticized governing strategy in the aftermath of the 2000–2001 financial crisis. In an attempt to address the previous decades’ crisis dynamics in high inflation, wage and rights-based struggles, the AKP government adopted a neoliberal capitalist restructuring agenda through arm’s length control over key economic and social processes (Dönmez and Zemandl, 2018), a populist distributive politics through social assistance programs, and adoption of the EU pro-democracy agenda (Bozkurt, 2013; Gunes, 2017: 16–17). As an unintended consequence of these policies, and similar to the historical episodes highlighted in the previous section, the space for articulations of counter-hegemonic and progressive politics has also widened temporarily.…”

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“…In other contexts (e.g. Turkey, Hungary, Ukraine, Bulgaria), it gradually evolves into repressive forms depending on the specific configuration of domestic class forces, dynamics of capital accumulation, and positioning within the hierarchy of global capitalism (Dönmez and Zemandl, 2018; Ishchenko, 2014; Tsoneva, 2017). Therefore, the domestic prospects of progressive politics and fostering solidarity beyond the national vary considerably.…”

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Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Dönmez

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper aims to explore the growing and deepening trend of politics of repression coupled with prolonged crisis and austerity politics, reflecting on the potentials as well as limitations of progressive politics in such a constrained context. Austerity policies continue pushing for anti-labour and reactionary politics in a variety of forms reflecting the unresolved crisis conditions of contemporary capitalism. While the liberal democratic state-form remains relatively intact in particular contexts, in others, it gradually evolves into repressive forms. The growing repression risks conceiving the anti-authoritarian struggles and the anti-capitalist and labour movements separate and/or mutually exclusive. This review article draws on the recent insights of (de)politicization, labour geography and history and political economy scholarships with specific reference to the case of Turkey while cautioning against the binary thinking of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ in leftist and labour mobilisations. It proposes a historical perspective in order to appreciate the diversity and multiplicity of struggles against the intersecting nodes of austerity, capitalism and repression in the complex geographies of periphery.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Dönmez

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…The post-2002 expansion of Turkey's foreign trade and its integration with the regional economy in the MENA are part of a longer-term and somewhat deep-rooted restructuring of the Turkish economy along neo-liberal lines that dates back to the 1980s (see: Donmez and Zemandl 2019;Öniş and Senses 2009). Europe remains the most important single regional market for Turkey (both in terms of imports and exports) and the Turkey-EU Customs Union Agreement (in force since 1995) reflects this fact.…”

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Turkey’s Political Economy in the 21st Century

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Karadeniz²

2020

International Political Economy Series

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“…Pinning down (re)politicisation within the existing literature is a difficult task due to a plethora of associated normative assumptions (Dönmez and Zemandl, 2018: 3). A common theme is that politicisation can insulate or embed the status quo (Fawcett et al, 2017a: 290).…”

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(Re)politicising ‘the governmental’: Resisting the Industrial Relations Act 1971

Warner

2019

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article is an account of the failure of the Industrial Relations Act that places resistance at its heart. This is achieved through application of the (de/re)politicisation framework, uncovering how this attempt to depoliticise the reform of industrial relations was resisted and re-politicisation achieved. The article argues that (re)politicisation is best understood through an analysis of informal processes of struggle involving non-governmental actors. By adopting a critical political economy perspective informed by Open Marxism, the so-called state-centrism of the governmental level is eschewed. New archival evidence demonstrates the importance of not only addressing the imposition of this governing strategy, but also the active role of organised labour when engaged in resistance to it. Thus, this article steps ‘beyond the governmental’ to argue that adequate conceptualisation of resistance at the societal level is a necessary part of understanding how depoliticised governing is shaped, imposed, transformed and potentially undermined.

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Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey

Cited by 22 publications

References 41 publications

Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Turkey’s Political Economy in the 21st Century

(Re)politicising ‘the governmental’: Resisting the Industrial Relations Act 1971

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