Regime Change in Turkey: Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Islamism and Hegemony

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Introduction: Debating regime transformation in Turkey: Myths, critiques and challenges
A critical political economy of regime change
The cultural political economy of regime change
Moments of resistance against regime change
Notes
References
Part I Political economy of regime change
Chapter 1 Crisis in or of neoliberalism?: A brief encounter with the debate on the authoritarian turn
Crisis of what?
Postscript: living through the pandemic instigated crisis of capitalism
Looking beyond the old?
Notes
References
Chapter 2 A labour-oriented perspective on regime discussions in Turkey
Mainstream approaches to authoritarianism
An appraisal and critique of authoritarian neoliberalism
Trajectory of the regime change in Turkey
Underside of the iceberg in Turkey
Authoritarian labour politics in Turkey
Labour regime under presidential system
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 3 Making the new-neoliberal state in Turkey: Beyond the prevailing master narrative
The prevailing master narrative’s assessment of the new-neoliberalism
The limitations of neoliberalism and the making of the new-neoliberal state
Conclusion: The new-neoliberalism
Notes
References
Chapter 4 Global class constitution of the AKP’s “authoritarian turn” by neoliberal financialization
The “global” limits of methodological liberalism
Financialized rule of money under neoliberalism and its implications for state transformation
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 5 Transformation of news media: The case of Turkey for the neoliberal era
The primitive character of capital accumulation and the neoliberal transformation of news media
Accumulation by dispossession and difference of the neoliberal era
The transformation of Turkey’s news media in the neoliberal era
Privatization
Financialization
State redistribution and the management and manipulation of crisis
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Notes
References
Chapter 6 Internationalized class governance and the AKP’s populism: On Turkey’s integration with the European Union
The Copenhagen Criteria – extending Maastricht to the East
Putting Copenhagen into a Turkish perspective
The emergence of disciplinary neoliberalism
Continuing EU reforms under an authoritarian populist aegis
Crisis of authoritarian populism
Accelerating crisis – growing contradictions with the EU
Conclusion: EU-integration, internationalized class governance and the AKP’s populism – contradicting elements?
Notes
References
Part II Cultural political economy of regime change
Chapter 7 Hegemony and privileges: Reproduction of Islamism in Turkey
Hegemony projects and intellectual leadership
Development of the Islamist project in a competitive field
Intellectuals of the Islamist hegemony project
Religious infrastructure
Structure of privileges
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8 Regime change in Turkey: Old symbols into new settings
The AKP’s gender regime
Regime change in Turkey
Reading feminist: the new mode of patriarchy
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 9 Recent right-wing lurches: What do they have in common for India and Turkey?
Conceptual contours and entry points
The foundation and developmentalist ideas
The neoliberal model and its winners
Rise of Anatolian bourgeoisie and the AKP
Market reforms in 1990s and Indian nationalism
Construction of majoritarian politics and patronage relations
Concluding reflections
Notes
Bibliography
Part III Moments of resistance against regime change
Chapter 10 Laicism and the struggle of Alevis against the rise of political Islam
Outline of the political situation
Theoretical definitions and historical background
The current situation of laicism and political Islam
The response of Alevis
Arab Alevi youth responses
Arab Alevis in general
Arab Alevi youth councils
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 11 The politics of legality of the authoritarian liberal regime in Turkey
Overview of the “Metal Storm”
Legal strategies of the authoritarian liberal regime for the disciplining of the labour
Manipulation of the legal landscape and the clear erosion of the right to strike in the labour legislation
Criminal law procedures for the coercion and legal intimidation of workers
Struggles and resistance: challenging authoritarian neoliberalism through law
High courts and the legal struggles over the conceptual mapping of the legitimacy of the authoritarian neoliberal regime
Judicial activism in the lower courts and building the legitimacy on the “right to collective action”
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 12 Constructing a language of peace through women’s struggles: The case of women for peace initiative in Turkey
The resolution process: a brief history from the angle of women’s peace struggle
Where the women from two sides of the river meet
Constructing a language of peace: impossible or indispensable?
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index