İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi / Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
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Item Gezi Park Protests in Turkey: From 'Enough Is Enough' to Counter-Hegemony?(2016) Onbasi, Funda Gencoglu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8211-8624; AAR-7704-2020This study aims at a critical analysis of the Gezi Park protests of 2013. Without denying the importance of understanding their 'before and after,' it tries to understand what happened 'during' the Gezi protests. It argues that the practice of Gezi can be understood via the theory of radical democracy, whose core concepts and premises are particularly appropriate for making sense of what happened during Gezi protests. Drawing on those concepts this study argues that (i) Gezi was a manifestation of the 'undecidability and contingency of political identities'; (ii) a highly suitable atmosphere developed during the protests for the emergence of a '(counter) hegemonic relationship' in the radical democratic sense of the term; (iii) Kemalism unsuccessfully attempted to act as 'the nodal point' to fix the free floating of ideological elements; (iv) ultimately, no particularity managed to take over the representation of 'the chain of equivalence' established among the elements excluded from the current neoliberal-conservative hegemony.Item 'Radical Social Democracy': A Concept That Has Much to Say to Social Democrats in Turkey(2016) Onbasi, Funda Gencoglu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8211-8624; AAR-7704-2020This article aims to link theory and practice by connecting the experience of social democracy in Turkey with the theory of radical democracy and thereby elaborate on the notion of radical social democracy' in the sense Chantal Mouffe used the term. Parallel to the repeated electoral successes of the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi - AKP), the academic literature has become increasingly AKP-centred and, concomitantly, social democracy debate has become unproductive in Turkey. However, social democratic parties, notably the Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi -CHP), have been playing important roles in Turkish political life. Thus, this study endeavours to open a new window to the social democracy debate in Turkey by attracting attention to the central concepts of radical democracy such as anti-essentialism, hegemony, antagonism, collective identities, chain of equivalence, all of which are considered as functional for radical social democracy.