İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi / Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

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Author: search.filters.author.Onbasi, Funda GencogluSubject: search.filters.subject.Conscientious objection

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    Paid Military Service at the Intersection of Militarism, Nationalism, Capitalism, and (Hetero)Patriarchy: Escaping without Leaving "Manhood'
    (2016) Onbasi, Funda Gencoglu; 0000-0001-8211-8624; AAR-7704-2020
    The variety of the political standpoints of governments that have initiated exempted military service for several times in Turkey is a sign of a general agreement on its legitimacy. However, Turkey is a country where conscientious objection is almost a taboo. I try to decipher the assumptions behind what is (il)legitimate, and their manifestations in the sociopolitical life from a gender perspective informed by the feminist theory. I argue that what lies behind these is the interconnection between militarism, nationalism, patriarchy, and capitalism. I show how they reciprocally support each other through a critical discourse analysis of the debate on legitimacy of paid military service and illegitimacy of conscientious objection. I conclude that the nature of these debates leads to a reproduction of the hegemonic definitions of manhood and womanhood, together with the reproduction of the masculinization of the political sphere at the expense of the exclusion of and discrimination against other identities.