Patterns of capital accumulation and state-society relations in Turkey

Gülalp, Haldun

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“…This does not mean, however, that this democratic state form was a voluntaristic choice by the military. It was rather conditioned by class dynamics, especially in the post-1945 period (Yalman, 2009, 212; see also Gulalp, 1985;Kocak, 2008). 8 The prevalent accumulation strategy was based on import substituting industrialization between 1960 and 1980, and on reproduction of Turkish dependence on foreign capital.…”

Section: Private Security As a Strategy Against Labor Militancymentioning

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“…8 The prevalent accumulation strategy was based on import substituting industrialization between 1960 and 1980, and on reproduction of Turkish dependence on foreign capital. This strategy reached its limits mainly because of the crisis of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s (Gulalp, 1985). However, the manner of its actual materialization was determined by contested class relations throughout the 1970s.…”

Section: Private Security As a Strategy Against Labor Militancymentioning

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Privatization of Security as a State-Led and Class-Driven Process: The Case of Turkey

Dolek¹

2015

Science & Society

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Private security has become a central form of everyday policing in the Southern and Northern countries alike, and has thereby redefined the modern conception of security, conventionally understood as the exclusive domain of the state. The relevant academic literature has seemed to problematize the issue either as a facet of the erosion of state monopoly of violence or as a dispersion of neoliberal governmentality. These positionsneo-Weberian and neo-Foucauldian, respectively -fail to grasp both the role of the capitalist state in the privatization of security and its class character. The Turkish case is quite telling about the constitutive role of the state in this process, which has been a class-driven project, reflecting contested class relations, from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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Section: Private Security As a Strategy Against Labor Militancymentioning

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Privatization of Security as a State-Led and Class-Driven Process: The Case of Turkey

Dolek¹

2015

Science & Society

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“…The period from 1950 to 1980 was characterized by ''an indecisive liberalization of the economy'' (Tugal 2009, p. 26) that failed to create a context of economic and political trust and stability. Outbursts of sociopolitical turmoil and economic hardship typified the period, with the Turkish military interfering with the parliamentary system three times, in 1960, 1971, and 1980. The import-substituting industrialization model characterized the Turkish development strategy in the 1960s and 1970s (Gulalp 1985). Import licenses for raw materials and investment goods were given to business elites and soon new manufacturing giants emerged (Karadag 2010).…”

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Development and Quality of Life in Turkey

Sandıkçı

Peterson

Ekici

et al. 2016

Journal of Macromarketing

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Recently, scholars have been calling attention to the macro-social and institutional structures shaping development and welfare. In this study we offer a socio-temporally situated understanding of quality of life (QOL) in a developing country setting and investigate the effects of macro structures on consumer well-being. Specifically, we focus on neoliberal development (led by the business sector, rather than led or directed by the government) and examine how a neoliberal transformation of the marketplace affects consumers’ QOL perceptions. The context of our research is Turkey, a developing country that has been an avid follower of neoliberal policies since the 1990s. We focus on three key macro-social developments that have been shaping Turkish society in the past decades – globalization, religion, and economic growth – and seek to understand how these forces influence consumers’ satisfaction with life. Our study contributes to the literature on development and QOL by first, showing the moderating effect of income, and second, introducing faith and global brands as important variables in conceptualizing QOL.

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“…The rise of the militant working class movement, coupled with the crisis in the prevalent regime of accumulation, led to a crisis of the state by the second half of the 1970s (Gülalp 1985;Ozan 2012;Yalman 2002;. The state crisis, as Simon Clarke suggests (1992, p. 148), was grounded in the fact that "the working class challenge to the power of capital extends to a presented for the first time in Turkey the historical possibility of a popular democratic state form by basically recognizing labour as the constitutive socio-political force in the country.…”

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“…This does not mean, however, that such a democratic form of state was the product of a voluntarist role played by the military. It was rather conditioned in the context of the development of class dynamics especially in the post-1945 history of Turkey (Yalman 2002, p. 34;2009, p. 212; see also Gülalp 1985;Koçak 2008;Savran 2002).…”

Section: Chapter VI Radical Politics On the Margin Cathartic Momentsmentioning

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Thieves, Kabadayis, and Revolutionaries on the Margin: A Social History of the Police in the Altindag Slums in Ankara, Turkey (1920s-1970s)

Dolek¹

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This thesis analyzes the historical marginalization of the Altındağ gecekondu (squatter) region in Ankara, Turkey from the 1920s to the 1970s in the context of capitalist urbanization. The analysis is developed through a critical exploration of the social history of the police that becomes pivotal for the materialization of state power on the urban margins. Deploying a dialectical analysis of the historical matrix of the police, class, and urban space, the thesis reveals the contradictory character of police power shaped by various forms of social, spatial, and political contestations. A tripartite, historically constituted, analytical framework is offered for a radical critique of police power comprised of distinct forms of struggle that reflect the fundamental concerns and foundational contradictions haunting modern police science in the management of capitalist modernity: (1) struggles over urban space; (2) struggles over forms of subsistence; and (3) struggles over a moral order. The thesis explores how these three forms of struggle historically condition the making of social criminality as a practice of subsistence and the production of popular illegality which manifests as an inarticulate and subversive form of moral order on the urban margin. The thesis further explores the cathartic association of social marginality with radical politics in the context of the gecekondu struggles in the 1970s. This reading of police power exposes a relational perspective that acknowledges the historical agency of subordinate classes in the formation and contestation of capitalist modernity. Finally, it is argued that a dialectical critique of police power provides a significant political and theoretical medium through which a radical critique of capitalist modernity from below can be formulated. 'enigma' in the thesis with our hours-long discussions at Mike's Place during his visiting period at Carleton University in Winter 2019. Many thanks Mustafa, for being also a source of 'hope' in this disenchanted world! vi I cannot pay back my indebtedness to all the beautiful people from Altındağ, Ankara that I met throughout the exciting, frustrating, as well as emotionally heavy process of field research. The mere words uttered here represent the nakedness inherent to the linguistic form. I would still like to present my sincere thanks to all my respondents for being amazingly generous and considerate in providing affirmative responses to my interview requests, and sharing their personal stories with me. I also owe special thanks to dear Yaşar Seyman, Sıtkı

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Patterns of capital accumulation and state-society relations in Turkey

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Privatization of Security as a State-Led and Class-Driven Process: The Case of Turkey

Privatization of Security as a State-Led and Class-Driven Process: The Case of Turkey

Development and Quality of Life in Turkey

Thieves, Kabadayis, and Revolutionaries on the Margin: A Social History of the Police in the Altindag Slums in Ankara, Turkey (1920s-1970s)

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