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

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    Dissident Women's Organizations as A Counter-Hegemonic Actor in Turkey
    (TURKISH STUDIES, 2024) Gunduz, Melisa; Gencoglu, Funda
    Could the Turkish women's movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women's movement's deep-rooted history and its openness to combine theory with practice/action. When looked from the Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau's perspective of radical democracy theory, the women's movement appears to have a considerable potential of deciphering the existing hegemony and articulating the social demands which exclude and are excluded by the present-day hegemony in Turkey. This article tries to understand how women's movement in Turkey conceptualizes the existing power relations that constitute the neoliberal religio-conservative hegemony and how it responds to it.
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    Turkey's "Western' or "Muslim' identity and the AKP's civilizational discourse
    (2018) Cinar, Menderes; 0000-0003-2968-8593; AAB-2599-2019
    This paper reviews the evolution of the Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi (AKP)'s civilizational outlook vis-a-vis the West as a discursive instrument that justified its Muslim democracy practices as well as its nativist authoritarian practices. The former practice entails that the AKP appear as a Muslim democratic political force, reconciling Islam and democracy, falsifying the Orientalist essentialism prevalent in the West and resolving the crisis in Turkey's Western identity. After relieving the secular establishment of its guardianship roles in 2010/2011, the AKP's nativist practices have aimed at redefining Turkey as a Muslim nation by using a civilizational discourse. As such, the AKP's nativism was characterized by an attempt at resetting the legitimate parameters of Turkish politics to reject the validity of the universal norms of democracy and the legitimacy of their domestic and international proponents. This naturally entailed a populist anti-establishment stance in foreign as well as domestic policy realms.
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    Gezi Park Protests in Turkey: From 'Enough Is Enough' to Counter-Hegemony?
    (2016) Onbasi, Funda Gencoglu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8211-8624; AAR-7704-2020
    This 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.