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This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and resistance. While debates on authoritarian resurgence have been limited to the examination of political factors (e.g., polarisation, conflict) until recently, the rising literature on 'authoritarian neoliberalism' highlights how the neoliberal restructuring of political economy bolsters the authoritarian tendencies of elected governments both in the Global South and the Global North. This book will be an invaluable resource not only to scholars of Turkey and the Middle East but also to researchers into authoritarianism and neoliberalism around the world.
Chapters 2 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction (Imren Borsuk, Pinar Dinç, Pinar Sayan, Sinem Kavak). - Chapter 2. Civil Society and Latent Mobilization under Authoritarian Neoliberal Governance (Bilge Yabanci). - Chapter 3. Online and Offline Spaces Intertwined: Post-Occupy Intersectional Visual Activism in Turkey (Özge Özdüzen). - Chapter 4. Persistence in Resistance: Purge of Academics for Peace under Authoritarian Neoliberal Turkey (Zeynep Özen Barkot and Lülüfer Körükmez). - Chapter 5. Women's Work and Life Strategies in a Gendered Agribusiness in Western Anatolia, Turkey: Achievements and Limitations from a Feminist Perspective (Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy). - Chapter 6. The Need to Look Beyond the Right to Property: An Assessment of Constitutional Court of Turkey Judgements on Urgent Expropriations for Hydropower Plants (Kutay Kutlu). - Chapter 7. Displacing Resistance in Kurdish regions: The Symbiosis of Neoliberal Urban Transformation and Authoritarian State (Diren Tas). - Chapter 8. Earthquake Risk-Driven Urban Transformation in Istanbul: A Relational Work Analysis of Changing Economic and Community Relations (Ladin Bayurgil). - Chapter 9. Education for the Marginalized as Resistance under Authoritarian Neoliberalism: The Case of People's Houses Summer School (Ezgi Murat). - Chapter 10. Resistance or Survival? Rethinking Challenges to the Authoritarian Neoliberal Order in Turkey (Imren Borsuk Eroglu, Pinar Dinç, Pinar Sayan, Sinem Kavak)
About the author
Dr Imren Borsuk (PhD, Koc University) is a research fellow at the Berlin Forum Transregionale Studien and Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies.
Dr Pinar Dinç is a political scientist (PhD, London School of Economics, 2017). She was formerly a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Lund University, where she continues to work as a researcher.
Dr Pinar Sayan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Beykoz University and Fellow at Istanbul Political Research Center.
Dr Sinem Kavak is a political scientist (PhD École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and Bogaziçi University, 2017) and a research affiliate and former Raoul Wallenberg Institute postdoctoral fellow at Lund University.
Report
"This book improves our knowledge by providing not only a theoretical but also an empirical framework for analyzing the resistance strategies against authoritarian neoliberalism. The in-depth investigation of a variety of relevant issues in each chapter using qualitative methods such as interviews and participant observation provides valuable insights into how individuals and communities experience the impact of authoritarian neoliberal policies." (Sema Akboga, Democratization, August 29, 2022)
