CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Saluk, Seda |
|---|---|
| Title | Neo-liberal governmentality, national belonging and oriental othering: A critical look at gender-based NGO projects in Turkey |
| Summary | This study questions the increasing cooperation between state and non-state entities, as well as discussing how discourses and practices of gender-based NGO projects have become areas for re-imagining the Turkish nation by acting upon women’s bodies and conducts. It focuses on the narratives of volunteers/workers in the Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV) in general, Functional Adult Literacy and Women’s Support Programme in particular, and analyzes project reports and other written material on AÇEV’s website. By providing a historical, institutional and discursive analysis, this study questions the discourses on education, motherhood, reproduction, literacy development, and gender equality throughout AÇEV’s project implementation. This study shows how gender-based NGO projects become the means of categorizing women, as well as (re)produce nationalism, ethnic discrimination, and orientalism in the discussions of gender. I argue that, within the scope of AÇEV’s projects, the discursive features of gender equality and practices of empowerment pave the way to a development discourse, which end up producing new strategies of (neo-liberal) governmentality and obscuring structural inequalities and the state violence in Turkey. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/saluk_seda.pdf |
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