Many scholars of Turkey’s contemporary political economy have observed the qualitative differences that characterise it—be it in the way that capital-state relations are forged, the shifts in the structural composition of the economy, or the predominance of financialisation. But it is the ascent of extractive sectors, such as construction, energy, and mining, that has been the hallmark of this era. These revamped venues of accumulation are marked with the explicit and visible role that the state assumed in their restructuring, as a series of critical changes in the legal infrastructure—ranging from market liberalisation measures to centralisation of policy-making—enabled their boom. This accumulation regime, coupled with the rolling-out of the World Bank-backed liberalisation of agriculture through the Agricultural Reform Implementation Project (ARIP), led to new forms of dispossession and proletarianisation. This chapter explicates the political economy of modern Turkey, with a focus on the regime of developmentalism mobilised within it, by the concept of accumulation by dislocation. In particular, it argues that a specific form of accumulation has gained prominence in contemporary Turkey, distinct in the interlinked flows of resources, capital, and labour that it mobilises, undergirded by an authoritarian turn. In doing so, the chapter draws particular attention to (i) the shifts in prevalent forms of labour in rural and urban settings, (ii) the changes in the use of land and space, (iii) spatial arrangements that accompany the process and aftermath of dispossession, and (iv) the changing nature of the state’s participation in accumulation processes.

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Political Economy in Turkey: Between Continuity and Break

  • Bengi Akbulut

摘要

Many scholars of Turkey’s contemporary political economy have observed the qualitative differences that characterise it—be it in the way that capital-state relations are forged, the shifts in the structural composition of the economy, or the predominance of financialisation. But it is the ascent of extractive sectors, such as construction, energy, and mining, that has been the hallmark of this era. These revamped venues of accumulation are marked with the explicit and visible role that the state assumed in their restructuring, as a series of critical changes in the legal infrastructure—ranging from market liberalisation measures to centralisation of policy-making—enabled their boom. This accumulation regime, coupled with the rolling-out of the World Bank-backed liberalisation of agriculture through the Agricultural Reform Implementation Project (ARIP), led to new forms of dispossession and proletarianisation. This chapter explicates the political economy of modern Turkey, with a focus on the regime of developmentalism mobilised within it, by the concept of accumulation by dislocation. In particular, it argues that a specific form of accumulation has gained prominence in contemporary Turkey, distinct in the interlinked flows of resources, capital, and labour that it mobilises, undergirded by an authoritarian turn. In doing so, the chapter draws particular attention to (i) the shifts in prevalent forms of labour in rural and urban settings, (ii) the changes in the use of land and space, (iii) spatial arrangements that accompany the process and aftermath of dispossession, and (iv) the changing nature of the state’s participation in accumulation processes.