The anti/alternative-globalization movement : a case study on Turkey

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Ergül (Yılmaz), Müjgan

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This thesis explores the framing processes within the Anti/Alternative-Globalization Movement through a case study on Turkey. The purpose of the study is to supply a descriptive analysis of the diagnostic and prognostic framing processes within the movement which identify the targets, goals and the strategies of action for the movement. This is an exploratory research based on a purposive sample achieved through snowball sampling and qualitative data gathered through semi-structured interviews. The movement in Turkey has not been able to propose a concrete goal for the movement. The participating organizations or activists have different visualizations of the “alternative futures” they are fighting for; there is no consensus on the strategies of action to be followed, but there is a belief in an evolutionary “becoming” process which eventually will provide a totally new alternative. There are many frame contestations besides power claims existing within the movement; however, there are two major consensus points supplying the basis of solidarity within the movement: According to the movement the cause of the current discontent within the world’s societies is globalization, which is mostly equated to neoliberalism or capitalism, and secondly the movement is seen as being able to shape a better future. It is possible to conclude that the movement has a potential tobring about concrete social changes, and therefore the new organizational forms and strategies of action -developed within the movement- which do not fit to the existing conceptions of the social movement literature should be evaluated with different theoretical perspectives.

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Globalization.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16206

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M. Ergül (Yılmaz), “The anti/alternative-globalization movement : a case study on Turkey,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.