The Making of Neoliberal Turkey

✍ Scribed by Cenk Ozbay, Maral Erol, Umut Turem

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exploring the divergent aspects of the rule of neoliberalism in Turkey since 1980s, each chapter in this book highlights a specific dimension of this socio-economic process and together, these essays construct a thorough examination of the whirlwind of changes recently experienced by Turkish society. With particular focus on the new ways in which social power operates, expert contributors explore new discourses and subjectivities around environmentalism, health, popular culture, economic policies, feminism and motherhood, urban space and minorities, class and masculinities. By questioning the primary influence of the state in these micro-political matters, they engage with concepts of neoliberalism and governmentality to provide a fresh, grounded and analytical perspective on the routes through which social power navigates the society. This sustained examination of the new axes of power and subjectivity, with a particular eye on the formation of new political spaces of governance and resistance, deepens the analysis of Turkey’s experiment with neoliberal globalization.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1
The Making of Neoliberal Turkey: An Introduction
Chapter 2
Turkey's Experience with Neoliberal Policies Since 1980 in Retrospect and Prospect
Chapter 3
Engineering Competition and Competitive Subjectivities: “Self” and Political Economy in Neoliberal Turkey
Chapter 4
Governing without Control: Turkey’s “Struggle” with International Migration
Chapter 5
The Violence Law and the Governmentalization of Football in Turkey
Chapter 6
Inarticulate, Self-Vigilant, and Egotistical: Masculinity in Turkish Drawn Stories
Chapter 7
Urban Anxieties and Kurdish Migrants: Urbanity, Belonging, and Resistance in Istanbul
Chapter 8
The Mourning Mother: Rhetorical Figure or a Political Actor?
Chapter 9 Health Care for All? Rethinking Globalization and Health Inequalities in the Turkish Context
Chapter 10
Anticipation, Choice, and Personal Responsibility: Medicalization of Menopause as Gendered Governmentality
Chapter 11
Remaking the Tobacco Market: The Emergence of Contract Farming and New Subjectivities
Chapter 12
The Politics of Biotechnology and the Governance of Genetically Modified Organisms in Turkey
Chapter 13
Governmentality and Environmentalism in Turkey: Power, Politics, and Environmental Movements