The Possibilities and limitations of articulation and political subjectification mechanisms in Turkey

Download

index.pdf

Date

2018

Author

Akgün, Recep

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

339
views

121
downloads

This thesis analyzes the articulation and political subjectifications in the contemporary radical popular and mass political experiences. It aims to respond how the radical contemporary popular and mass political experiences become possible and delimited. It indicates the theoretical and analytical limits of the universalist and essentialist perspectives. Also, it criticizes the perspectives that neglect the role of the agency and the local social and political conditions. Thus, it concentrates upon the Turkey and explores the social movements and political experiences during AKP era in the case of the Gezi events and People’s Democratic Party (HDP). From an empirical standpoint, it contributes to the theoretical discussions on the ontology of politics and on the workings of the contemporary political articulations and subjectifications emerged within the post-structuralist thought. For this task, it presents how the political and social conditions, political dispositions and the habitus of the agents make possible and delimited the Gezi and HDP during AKP era. According to the conceptual framework and the cases’ findings, the study shows the role of the agents, local conjunctures and conditions making possible and delimiting the contemporary radical articulations and political subjectifications.

Subject Keywords

Political science., Political sociology., Political socialization.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12622058/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/27266

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

The issue of undecidability within the debate between Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek Uzuner, Mehmet Gökhan; Okyayuz, Mehmet; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2009) The philosophical problem of the tension between liberty and order has dominated the agenda of western philosophy and science since the beginning of the history of thought, and it is a leading issue nowadays, too. The problem of the act of decision is particularly one of the significant themes of contemporary political thought. Instead of the classical poles of both voluntarism and determinism prioritising either the subject or the structure, what should be employed is a much deeper analysis of the relation...
Civil society debate in Turkey: a critical analysis Onbaşı, Funda; Özçoban Üstüner, Fahriye; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2008) This thesis analyzes the debate revolving around the concept of civil society in Turkey with reference to academic literature. It argues that despite the seeming variety of approaches to the concept of civil society, there is an underlying commonality among the widespread usages of the concept. These seemingly different approaches in the end become the versions of the same hegemonic view. This, in turn, causes a vicious circle in the civil society debate in Turkey. The basis upon which this hegemonic view i...
The resistance committees : Devrimci Yol and the question of revolutionary organization in Turkey in the late 1970s Bozkurt, Sümercan; Erdoğan, Necmi; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2008) This thesis aims to examine the experiences of the resistance committees organized by a revolutionary Movement, Devrimci Yol (Revolutionary Way), in Turkey in the late 1970s. More specifically it focuses on Devrimci Yol’s formulations concerning the issue of revolutionary organization, how it and the resistance committee experiences within their contexts- embodied the tension between being organized in accordance with initiating change within the social relations of everyday life and being organized in acco...
The LGBTT and women’s movements in Turkey: a comparative analysis Kurbanoğlu, Elçin; Acar, Ayşe Feride; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2010) This thesis investigates two social movements in Turkey, the women’s and LGBTT movements comparatively and in the light of available NSM theories. While brief histories of both movements are presented and all active LGBTT associations and groups in Turkey are introduced in the thesis, the main focus of the study is the LGBTT movement. Based on in depth interviews with 17 LGBTT activists, the evolution of this movement is traced and its current profile as well as its relationship to different branches of the...
Understanding populist politics in Turkey: a hegemonic depth approach Yalvaç, Faruk (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-12-01) The aim of this article is to understand populism as a hegemonic project involving a struggle for power between different social forces. We take a critical realist approach in defining populism. This implies several things. We develop a new approach to understanding populist politics by taking neither a purely discursive (Laclau), nor a solely structural (Poulantzas), but a critical realist approach and analysing the three-way relationship between structural conditions, agency, and institutional framework. ...

Citation Formats

R. Akgün, “The Possibilities and limitations of articulation and political subjectification mechanisms in Turkey,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2018.