This collection of essays identifies Erdogans regime as a historical force to reckon with. It contributes to documenting this history through sites of repression and resistance by focusing on autocratization, hegemony, accumulation and redistribution of wealth, gender, media, culture, and Kurdish politics which have been the loci of the regime.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been playing the authoritarians game for some time now. Under the polarizing, tense and uncertain conditions of this regime, segments of society in Turkey are still actively resisting to the onslaught of authoritarian measures, coalescing at diverse sites of repression, and protesting against the lack of transparency, arbitrary state actions against citizens, or outright extractivist practices against humans and nature. In this volume, we continue with our critical task of both documenting this resistance and detailing, examining, and analyzing the backsliding of one of the democratically elected governments of the twenty-first century into an authoritarian regime that is domestically punitive and regionally aggressive. By doing so, as academics, we become critical agents in determining the nature and meaning of the legacy of the A.K.P. regime.
List of Figures List of Tables Kumru F. Toktam/Isabel David:
Introduction. Authoritarians Game: Repression and Resistance in Turkey
Marién Durįn Cenit/Guillermo López-Rodrķguez: The Autocratization Process in
Turkey: Key Indicators José Duarte Ribeiro/Aye Gündüz Hogör: Do Peasants
Make History? Authoritarianism and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
Gülnur Elēik: The Sexual Contract of Capital Accumulation in Turkey Murat
Akser: Media Capture and Erosion of News Reporting in Turkey: The Dawn of the
Age of Post-Truth Politics Seda Altu/Mert Arslanalp/Volkan Ēidam/Saygun
Gökariksel: Repression and Resistance at Boaziēi University: The Making of
Counterpublic Under Authoritarian Offensive Duygu Atlas: Sites of
Resistance: Kurdish Arts in Turkey from 2009 to the Present Pnar Dokumac:
Repression, Resistance, and Relational Re-Imagination: Secular-Pious Divide
in the Womens Rights Movement in Turkey Canan Cokan and Ercan en:
Negotiating Kurdishness as Resistance: Reclaiming Racialized Identities and
Power in the Multitudes of Kurdishness Through Collective Critical
Consciousness Alejandro Ciordia and Carmen Rodrķguez López: Geopolitical
Discourses in Turkeys Partisan Media During the Syrian War: A Framing
Approach on the Siege of Kobane Ödül Celep: The Turkey-ification of
Turkeys Kurdish Left Paul Kubicek: Concluding
Chapter. The Legacy of
A.K.P. Rule in Turkeys Post-Erdoan Political Landscape Notes on
Contributors Index.
Kumru F. Toktamis is a political sociologist. Her historical-comparative, theoretically eclectic, and culturally informed research focuses on de/democratization, state formation, political violence, social movements, nationalism, and ethnic and gender politics in the Middle East. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Sorani Kurdish, and Turkish.
Isabel David is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa). She is co-editor (with Kumru F. Toktamis) of the book series "Culture, Society and Political Economy in Turkey" with Peter Lang Academic Publishers.
