Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation

Arslanalp, Mert; Erkmen, T. Deniz

doi:10.1080/13510347.2020.1753701

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“…But it is rather that the operations of governmentality expand the field of extralegality in which discretionary power and the tactical evocation of law meddle with the universality and temporality conventionally (and erroneously) attributed to rule of law. States of exception become both banal (Gökarıksel and Türem 2019) and mobile (Arslanalp and Erkmen 2020). To be sure, neither the state of exception nor the tactical deployment of legal dispositifs is new.…”

Section: Law As Tacticmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

Gambetti¹

2022

South Atlantic Quarterly

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This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within the broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts as true, without introducing new criteria in their place. As such, it is a state of constant disorientation. The main argument is that post-truth has a material power basis: it is neither an intellectual problem nor one that can be solved by recourse to liberal rights. By briefly showing how neoliberalism, the New Right, and biopolitical governmentality connect and reinforce each other, the essay then asks what academic freedom can signify given the new game of power. The Boğaziçi resistance, it argues, shows how defending academic freedom cannot solely be an academic matter.

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Section: Law As Tacticmentioning

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The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

Gambetti¹

2022

South Atlantic Quarterly

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“…It is especially telling that almost all respondents were active during the Gezi protests of 2013, whose anti-neoliberal and proto-communist tendencies were underlined by researchers (Tuğal, 2015). The Gezi protests met with heavy repression and became a turning point after which the ongoing autocratisation picked up speed and new groups, including secularists, feminists and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ), were identified as enemies of the state (Arslanalp and Erkmen, 2020: 958–960). This is strongly reflected in interviews, as multiple respondents narrate how they turned ‘inwards’ and pulled back from public life the more they felt threatened by what was going on in the country:But those people dying at Gezi, they made me feel like this life I am trying to create piece by piece is so worthless in this country.…”

Section: Yoga As a Community Of Solidarity And Discontentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flexible Selves in Flexible Times? Yoga and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Istanbul

Erkmen

2021

Sociology

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This article adds to contemporary analyses of neoliberal subjectivities by focusing on middle-class yoga practitioners in Istanbul, Turkey. Drawing on in-depth interviews, it questions the dominant interpretation of yoga as a form of neoliberal governance and suggests that within the nexus of neoliberal globalisation, autocratisation and precarisation, practices that are often labeled ‘lifestyle consumption’ might provide individuals with the discursive tools to question entrepreneurial norms. Expanding the geographical scope of existing research as well as providing a theoretically informed analysis of empirical data, the article makes an original contribution to understandings of neoliberal subjectivities by bridging work on neoliberal subjectivities and lifestyle politics.

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“…While pro-AKP unions (i.e., HAK-İŞ and TÜRK-İŞ) were largely uncritical of the worsening conditions of workers in Turkey, the unions that were not under the AKP's hegemony/guidance (i.e., D İSK) continued to voice their discontent and resisted the AKP's policies with strikes as well as protests and demonstrations. According to Arslanalp and Erkmen (2020), a total of 20 labour-related protests were banned in Turkey between 2007 and July 2016.…”

Section: Strikementioning

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Consolidating and Contesting Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey: Towards a Framework

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Dinc

Kavak

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Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey

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During the early years of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP), Turkey was seen as a burgeoning democratic power propped up by economic prosperity in line with the reforms for European Union (EU) accession and International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality. However, 20 years later, it is considered an emblematic case of democratic backsliding in line with rising poverty and inequalities that have been amplified as a result of sweeping neoliberal reforms and authoritarian consolidation in the country. The recent literature has identified these concomitant and complementary modes of authoritarian governance and neoliberal policies in Turkey as ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’. In this chapter, we discuss the dynamics of consolidation of authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey as well as the acts of contention against it. Building mainly on the eight case studies presented in this volume, we put forward a framework that explains the consolidation of authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey through the mechanisms of executive centralisation, autocratic legalism, cronyism, violence-fuelled rentier accumulation, criminalisation and stigmatisation, and contestations against authoritarian neoliberalism through strikes, protests, demonstrations, network building, litigation, everyday struggles, and armed acts of contention.

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Mobile emergency rule in Turkey: legal repression of protests during authoritarian transformation

Cited by 39 publications

References 44 publications

The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

Flexible Selves in Flexible Times? Yoga and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Istanbul

Consolidating and Contesting Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey: Towards a Framework

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