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Neoliberal Turkey and its discontents : economic policy and the environment under Erdo?gan / edited by F?Ikret Adaman, Beng?I Akbulut and Murat Arsel

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London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
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1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : illustrations
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Adaman, Fikret, Akbulut, Benji, and Arsel, Murat
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Contents
Cover; Author Biography; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Neoliberal Developmentalism in Turkey: Continuity, Rupture, Consolidation; 1. The State of Property: From the Empire to the Neoliberal Republic; Introduction; State and Property in the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey; Urban Land as a Resource for (Re)distribution; The Neoliberal Shift; Conclusion; 2. Two Crises, Two Trajectories: The Impact of the 2001 and 2008 Economic Crises on Urban Governance in Turkey; Introduction; Economic Crises and Urban Governance: An Unexplored Link, Decentralisation and Democratisation after the 2001 CrisisThe Centre Strikes Back: Re-centralisation after the 2008 Crisis; Conclusion; 3. The Politics of Agricultural Production in Turkey; Changes in 'the Rules of the Game' in Turkish Agriculture; Vagaries of the Great Transformation in Turkish Agriculture; The Rules and Politics of Contract Farming; Contract Farming: The Route to Proletarisation?; Contract Farming: Possibilities for the Making of Independent Farmer Entrepreneurs?, 4. The 'Politics of Serving' and Neoliberal Developmentalism: The Megaprojects of the AKP as tools of Hegemony BuildingIntroduction; The Third Bridge, the Third Airport and Canal Istanbul; The 'Politics of Serving', Environmentalism and the New Developmentalism; Challenging the 'Environmentalism' of the AKP: Civil Society and the Megaprojects; 5. Turkey's Hydropower Renaissance: Nature, Neoliberalism and Development in the Cracks of Infrastructure; Introduction; A New Source of Energy for a 'New Turkey'; Liberalising Energy: A Never-ending Adventure, Small is the New Large: How Infrastructures MatterPlans in the Briefcase: The Birth of the Hydropower Market; Whither the Developmentalist State?; Concluding Remarks; 6. Environmental Concerns in Turkey: A Comparative Perspective; Introduction; Tracing the Elite Rhetoric and Preferences in Election Manifestos: 1950-2015; Mass Electoral Perspective; Conclusion; 7. The Radioactive Inertia: Deciphering Turkey's Anti-Nuclear Movement; Introduction; The Radioactive History of Turkey; Delineating Decline: Akkuyu and İnceburun; Common Threads and Inherent Challenges; Conclusion, and 8. 'A Few Environmentalists'? Interrogating the 'Political' in Gezi ParkGezi Park and Environmental Studies; Politics of a Few Trees; The Grammar of Resistance; From Criticism of Construction to Constructive Criticism; 9. Alternative Food Initiatives in Turkey; Introduction; Imagining an Alternative Social Order; Agriculture and Food in Turkey; Alternative Food Initiatives in Turkey; Discussion; Conclusion; 10. Commons Against the Tide: The Project of Democratic Economy; Introduction; Commons: From Tragedy to Commoning; Democratic Economy as a Project of Commoning; Conclusion
Summary
The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal. Here, a group of experts on Turkish political economy show how these policies have also had a detrimental impact on the environment, sustainability and the long-term health of the Turkish economy. Taking the two main sectors of growth during the past decade-energy and construction-as its primary focus, the book engages broadly with the political economy of inequality and susta.
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ISBN
1786732092 (ebk)
9781786732095
9781786722096 (electronic bk.)
1786722097 (electronic bk.)
1784538728
9781784538729
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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