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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been playing the authoritarian's game for some time now. Under the polarizing, tense and uncertain conditions of this regime, segments of society in Turkey are still actively resisting to the onslaught of authoritarian measures, coalescing at diverse sites of repression, and protesting against the lack of transparency, arbitrary state actions against citizens, or outright extractivist practices against humans and nature. In this volume, we continue with our critical task of both documenting this resistance and detailing, examining, and analyzing the backsliding of one of the democratically elected governments of the twenty-first century into an authoritarian regime that is domestically punitive and regionally aggressive. By doing so, as academics, we become critical agents in determining the nature and meaning of the legacy of the A.K.P. regime.
List of contents
List of Figures - List of Tables - Kumru F. Toktamis/Isabel David: Introduction. Authoritarian's Game: Repression and Resistance in Turkey - Marién Durán Cenit/Guillermo López-Rodríguez: The Autocratization Process in Turkey: Key Indicators - José Duarte Ribeiro/Ayse Gündüz Hosgör: Do Peasants Make History? Authoritarianism and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey - Gülnur Elçik: The Sexual Contract of Capital Accumulation in Turkey - Murat Akser: Media Capture and Erosion of News Reporting in Turkey: The Dawn of the Age of Post-Truth Politics - Seda Altug/Mert Arslanalp/Volkan Çidam/Saygun Gökariksel: Repression and Resistance at Bogaziçi University: The Making of Counterpublic Under Authoritarian Offensive - Duygu Atlas: Sites of Resistance: Kurdish Arts in Turkey from 2009 to the Present - Pinar Dokumaci: Repression, Resistance, and Relational Re-Imagination: Secular-Pious Divide in the Women's Rights Movement in Turkey - Canan Coskan and Ercan Sen: Negotiating Kurdishness as Resistance: Reclaiming Racialized Identities and Power in the Multitudes of Kurdishness Through Collective Critical Consciousness - Alejandro Ciordia and Carmen Rodríguez López: Geopolitical Discourses in Turkey's Partisan Media During the Syrian War: A Framing Approach on the Siege of Kobane - Ödül Celep: The Turkey-ification of Turkey's Kurdish Left - Paul Kubicek: Concluding Chapter. The Legacy of A.K.P. Rule in Turkey's Post-Erdogan Political Landscape - Notes on Contributors - Index.
About the author
Kumru F. Toktamis is a political sociologist. Her historical-comparative, theoretically eclectic, and culturally informed research focuses on de/democratization, state formation, political violence, social movements, nationalism, and ethnic and gender politics in the Middle East. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Sorani Kurdish, and Turkish.
Isabel David is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa). She is co-editor (with Kumru F. Toktamis) of the book series "Culture, Society and Political Economy in Turkey" with Peter Lang Academic Publishers.
