Indebtment as power apparatus

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Kabalay, Berkay
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The thesis analyzes the constitution of indebted subject from the perspective of Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of power. The peculiarity of Foucauldian subjectification and power analyses is the action-centric comprehension of the processes. In literature, interpretation of Foucault is mostly accompanied with cultural or sexual subjectivity. Herein, through the definition of materialism, Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Marx are used for the exposition of noncultural and material subjectivity. This subjectivity is about indebted subjects. Ontological and epistemological statements on the indebtment and indebted subject are not enough for defining the operation of indebtment as power apparatus. That is why, the main theme of this text goes beyond the theoretical basis. History of indebtment, discontinuities between various periods, and the present situation of material indebtment is also attempted to be exposed. Text’s main purpose pursues that, through the exposition of how indebtment operates, how possible resistance against the fate of indebted subject can be constituted in everyday life struggle.  
Power(Social sciences)., Social structure., Debt.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/26768
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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B. Kabalay, “Indebtment as power apparatus,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2017.
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