CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Bulbul, Gamze |
|---|---|
| Title | This uprising is a gift from Allah: political subjectivities of authoritarian hegemony in the post-coup period in Turkey |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on the dynamic interplay between the hegemony of the authoritarian Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey and discursive strategies of ‘the people’ supportive of the party. More specifically, it scrutinizes the complexities of political subjectivities of the people who decided to take it to the street to protest for the state in the evening of the 15 July 2016 coup attempt and in the month-long countrywide Democracy Watch Demonstrations (DWDs). Drawing on the mobilization of ‘the people’ under and for the state, I argue that generating dynamic consent of ‘the people’ who identify with the AKP is necessary to legitimize coercion on dissidents. Contextualizing the ascendancy of the party through its Gramscian passive revolution, I problematize how these political subjectivities emerged and in what ways they rationalize and are leveraged to legitimize state practices to reinvigorate the hegemony of the AKP over political, economic, and social relations within the society. I conclude that political subjectivities emerge out of people positioning of themselves vis-à-vis the imagined others by bringing in emotions and re-appropriating history informed by religious-nationalist interpretations. Furthermore, I explore that main techniques of legitimation of the AKP are politicization of terror through normalized state of exception and de-politicization of political decision-making mechanism. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar, Dorit Geva |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/bulbul_gamze.pdf |
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