Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Islamist Politics and the AKP Years in Turkey

Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Islamist Politics and the AKP Years in Turkey
ISBN-10
1926958187
ISBN-13
9781926958187
Series
Silent Violence
Category
Political Science
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
2012
Authors
Simten Coşar, Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir

Description

This anthology offers an alternative, critical reading of contemporary Turkish politics by problematizing the synthetic articulation of Islamist politics with neoliberal capitalism during the AKP party's decade-long rule. The contributors offer a detailed analysis of the seemingly contradictory policies of the AKP regime, from social to cultural to foreign policy, with a view to understanding changes in Turkey's neoliberal order. The editors contend that the AKP party's rule should be read on the basis of transformations within capitalism in neoliberal times involving different forms of suppression and exploitation along axes of class, race and gender. ...a very timely and provocative work on the recent socio-economic history of Turkey offering new insights on peripheral capitalism and a decisive transformation to market-friendly Islamism. A. Erinc Yeldan, Professor of Economics, Bilkent University and author of "The Economics of Growth and Distribution"(2009)

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