CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Yuksel, Ayse Seda |
|---|---|
| Title | LOCALIZATION OF NEOLIBERALISM: Space, Culture and Materiality in Southeast Turkey |
| Summary | This dissertation examines the processes of the identity construction of Turkish/Kurdish elites through the lens of an ethnographic research conducted in two cities in southeast Turkey, and analyzes their negotiation and conflicts with local, national and global as they shift across multiple scales and boundaries within historically specific, yet contingent and socially produced places (or contexts). The various and multifaceted phases of capitalist scalar restructuring in Turkey since the introduction of neoliberal reforms in 1980 have not only rescaled localities and imposed a new conception of a fragmented national geography but it also radically reshaped the modes of locality formation and the forms of belonging. This study seeks to extend the theories of state rescaling and neoliberal restructuring to southeast Anatolia, a geography moulded by the civil and exceptional policies of the Turkish state. It aims to contribute to the under-researched area of the impacts of global neoliberalism on southeast Anatolian cities in Turkey, and more importantly provide a critical analysis of the relations between capitalist restructuring, war, belonging and material culture. This dissertation aims to advance discussions in three areas. First it sheds light on the processes of state rescaling in localities, manifested in the form of various entrepreneurialisms (cultural or industrial) that are embedded in the local activisms of local elites (political and economic) in support of a specific trajectory under neoliberalism. Second it discusses various assets/dynamics that serve the local actors to mobilize multi-scalar networks for “jumping scales” and defining particular trajectories under neoliberalism (such as ethnicity, local history, local politics). And it illustrates how material culture and interventions to materiality are strictly related to the “localization” of rescaling. |
| Supervisor | Caglar, Ayse |
| Department | Sociology PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/sphyua01.pdf |
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