Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-527-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 314 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: Dislocations

Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam. By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to establish hegemony over labor. The contributors analyze the relationship between neoliberalism and the political fortunes of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), and examine the similarities and differences amongst new factions in the secular and Islamic middle class that have benefited economically, socially, and culturally during the AKP's reign. The articles also investigate the impact of the Gülen Movement and the role of the media in shaping the contours of intra-class struggle within contemporary Turkish political and social life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balkan, Erol

Balkan, Nesecan

Öncü, Ahmet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Theokratische und religiöse Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Chapter 1. Islamism: A Comparative-Historical Overview

Burak Gürel

Chapter 2. Class, State and Religion in Turkey

Sungur Savran

Chapter 3. The Deep Fracture in the Big Bourgeoisie of Turkey

Kurtar Tanyilmaz, translated by Osman Balkan

Chapter 4. Islamist Big Bourgeoisie in Turkey

Özgür Öztürk

Chapter 5. Islamic Capital

Evren Hosgör

Chapter 6. Reproduction of  the  Islamic Middle Class in Turkey

Erol Balkan and Ahmet Öncü

Chapter 7. The Question of AKP Hegemony: Consent Without Consensus

Evren Hosgör

Chapter 8. Globalization, Islamic Activism, and Passive Revolution in Turkey: The Case of Fethullah Gülen

Joshua Hendrick

Chapter 9. The Laic-Islamic Schism in the Turkish Dominant Class and the Media

Anita Ogurlu and Ahmet Öncü

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Balkan, Nesecan
Nesecan Balkan is a Senior Lecturer of economics at Hamilton College. She is the author of Capitalism and the Debt Crisis, published in Turkish in 1994, and co-editor with Sungur Savran of The Ravages of Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Society and Gender in Turkey (2002) and The Politics of Permanent Crisis: Class, Ideology and State in Turkey (2002).

Öncü, Ahmet
Ahmet Öncü is Professor of sociology at the Sabanci University School of Management. His articles have appeared in journals such as New Perspectives on Turkey, Journal of Historical Sociology, Cultural Logic, Science and Society, Citizenship Studies, International Review of Sociology, and Review of Radical Political Economics.

Balkan, Erol
Erol Balkan teaches economic development, international finance and political economy of the Middle East at Hamilton College in New York. Balkan’s book on the formation of the Turkish middle class and education, Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul, was published in 2009 by Berghahn Books.

Ahmet Öncü is Professor of sociology at the Sabanci University School of Management. His articles have appeared in journals such as New Perspectives on Turkey, Journal of Historical Sociology, Cultural Logic, Science and Society, Citizenship Studies, International Review of Sociology, and Review of Radical Political Economics.