The Limits of Sociological Marxism?

Morton, Adam David

doi:10.1163/1569206x-12341284

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“…Thomas, 2009). Therefore, the analysis of the transformation of working classes in its stratified, contradictory and relational moments would require tracking the continuities of policies identified through governments' class, ideology and state practices (Morton, 2013). In that regard, it is pertinent to recognize the role played by the state practices in preventing the emergence of an 'antagonistic subject', especially in the midst of a crisis (cf.…”

Section: From Individual To Class: Stratified Contradictory and Relationalmentioning

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Labour Containment Strategies and Working Class Struggles in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of TEKEL Workers in Turkey

Yalman

Topal

2017

Critical Sociology

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This article aims to refresh class analysis in order to develop a better understanding of different modalities of reproduction of labour quite often without economic and social security in different historically specific contexts. It draws attention to the pertinence of exploring the ways in which the individuals comprising a particular movement experience specific moments of collective will formation within an authoritarian state form. In this regard, it focuses on the implications of the privatization of SEEs since the 2000s for workers who were made redundant and deprived of their social rights. On the basis of a field research with more than 100 former workers of TEKEL (a major privatized SEE) who staged a resistance to the AKP government’s offer of precarious employment status during the winter of 2009–10, the article provides a critical evaluation of this momentous experience pondering why such a moment of collective will formation failed to pave the ground for the development of a counter-hegemonic strategy. While aiming to assess the impact of this common experience on the ex-workers’ awareness of their class belonging who actually carried the brunt of the neoliberal assault on their economic and social well-being, the article argues that the particular employment policy did not simply introduce informalization into public sector but functioned as a labour containment strategy by the AKP government.

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Section: From Individual To Class: Stratified Contradictory and Relationalmentioning

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Labour Containment Strategies and Working Class Struggles in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of TEKEL Workers in Turkey

Yalman

Topal

2017

Critical Sociology

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“…. and civil society’ (Buttigieg, : 37; Morton, : 134–43). What is more striking is that this conception utterly fails to account for the extant relationship between the ‘state’ and ‘civil society’ in Turkey.…”

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The Politics of Contemporary Capitalism in Turkey (and the Politics of its Interlocutors)

Tansel¹

2015

Development and Change

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“…Yalman (2002) portrays the history of developmentalism in Turkey as a series of hegemonic projects representing different configurations of the ruling bloc, where he argues that the Turkish bourgeoisie has ruled without becoming hegemonic until 1980s. Tuğal (2009) utilizes the concept of passive revolution to explicate the rise of political Islam in Turkey and its eventual integration into the neoliberal agenda by the Justice and Development Party (JDP), against which Morton (2013) launches a forceful critique.…”

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The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey

Akbulut

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Critical perspectives on economic growth have laid bare the fragility of the assumed link between material growth and socio-ecological wellbeing. The appeal of economic growth, however, goes beyond the economic sphere. As a societal goal, growth is often mobilized to pre-empt and/or co-opt opposition around issues of social justice and redistribution. Not only does the constitution of growth as a collective goal serve to unite the internally fragmented sphere of the social and brush aside (class-based) distributional conflicts, but it also enables the distribution of material concessions to subordinate classes for eliciting their consent. The degrowth proposal should thus more broadly tackle the material and discoursive ways in which growth enables the reproduction of contemporary political-economic systems. This paper argues that the notion of growth functions as a powerful ideal that shapes state–society relationships and social-collective imaginations. It demonstrates this by discussing the making of state in Turkey through a Gramscian perspective, where the notion of economic growth is deeply imprinted in the broader practices of the state to legitimize its existence and dominates the social imaginary in a way that cannot be easily dismissed. Against this backdrop, the possibility of not only effectuating, but also imagining and desiring degrowth would call for a radical reconfiguration of state–society relationships. Within this context, the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s project of Democratic Economy emerges as an alternative, both to the nation-state paradigm and to the imperative of economic growth.

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The Limits of Sociological Marxism?

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

Labour Containment Strategies and Working Class Struggles in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of TEKEL Workers in Turkey

Labour Containment Strategies and Working Class Struggles in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of TEKEL Workers in Turkey

The Politics of Contemporary Capitalism in Turkey (and the Politics of its Interlocutors)

The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey

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