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Charity State: Neoliberalism, Political Islam, and Class Relations in Turkey

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title Charity State: Neoliberalism, Political Islam, and Class Relations in Turkey
 
Creator Uysal, Gonenc
 
Subject Class
Neoliberalism
Political Islam
State
Turkey
 
Description Beginning with the suppression of the Gezi Park protests in 2013, the AKP aimed to counteract and oppress social and political opposition. The proponents of hegemonic liberal-conservative approach considered this process as the AKP’s authoritarian turn, and explained it with references to the tutelary regime borrowed from either the Republican state or neoliberalism on a global scale. Nevertheless, the liberal-conservative approach could not adequately identify the AKP’s attempt at transition to the exceptional form of state already beginning in 2010. This article borrows its theoretical and conceptual framework from Marxism. It argues that the AKP’s attempt was a result of and a response to the hegemonic crisis of the charity state as a particular sociohistorical form of authoritarian neoliberal state in Turkey. The AKP’s aim to transform and reconsolidate the charity state remained in conformity with its goal to maintain bourgeois class domination under the tutelage of religion.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
Date 2018-06-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/190250
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019); 16-28
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/190250/188695
 
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