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Globalisation and neo-liberalism have been impacting the
nation-state and leading the full citizenship concept into crisis,
not only in Turkey but also in the world. While one reason for this
crisis is the decline of the welfare state, another reason stems
from the fluidity of borders that distorts the classical patterns
of the nation-state such as meta-identity. The existing Turkish
citizenship inherited a strong state idea with passive citizenship
tradition from the Ottoman Empire. However, this understanding is
no longer sustainable for Turkish society. The definition of
citizenship through state-led nationalism, secularism, and a free
market economy creates societal crises in politics and society. The
aim of this book is to find out the answer of what should be the
ideal citizenship regime for Turkey. Various scholars dealing with
Turkish socio-politics analyze different aspects and problems of
Turkish citizenship regime that should be tackled for finding a
recipe for ideal citizenship in Turkey.
The situation in the Balkans, such as the solution to the status of
Kosovo, is currently the largest international political problem in
Europe, with the potential to burst into a world crisis regarding
the Eastern - Western relations. On the other hand, a successful
solution to the problem in the Balkans could serve as a model for
solving the Muslim - Christian tensions elsewhere in the world. It
is the intention of this book to contribute proposals for solutions
to the problems of Balkans. The starting principle for the
solutions to be effective is that they should come in a natural way
from the people below and should not be enforced by the political
elites from above. Based on self-determination of nations as a
starting principle, they should encourage intra-regional
cooperation among the regional entities (economic, cultural, sport,
as a basis for political, social understanding and cooperation);
secondly, accelerate their economic, political and social
development and thirdly, as a final step enable the inclusion of
the Balkan countries into the European Union.
This study is an effort to reveal how patriarchy is embedded in
different societal and state structures, including the economy,
juvenile penal justice system, popular culture, economic sphere,
ethnic minorities, and social movements in Turkey. All the articles
share the common ground that the political and economic sphere,
societal values, and culture produce conservatism regenerate
patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity in both society and the state
sphere. This situation imprisons women within their houses and
makes non-heterosexuals invisible in the public sphere, thereby
preserving the hegemony of men in the public sphere by which this
male-dominated mentality or namely hegemonic masculinity excludes
all forms of others and tries to preserve hierarchical structures.
In this regard, the citizenship and the gender regime bound to each
other function as an exclusion mechanism that prevents tolerance
and pluralism in society and the political sphere.
This study is an effort to reveal how patriarchy is embedded in
different societal and state structures, including the economy,
juvenile penal justice system, popular culture, economic sphere,
ethnic minorities, and social movements in Turkey. All the articles
share the common ground that the political and economic sphere,
societal values, and culture produce conservatism regenerate
patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity in both society and the state
sphere. This situation imprisons women within their houses and
makes non-heterosexuals invisible in the public sphere, thereby
preserving the hegemony of men in the public sphere by which this
male-dominated mentality or namely hegemonic masculinity excludes
all forms of others and tries to preserve hierarchical structures.
In this regard, the citizenship and the gender regime bound to each
other function as an exclusion mechanism that prevents tolerance
and pluralism in society and the political sphere.
This book evaluates the Turkish nation-building process from the
Ottoman Empire to today, considering the role of Islam in this
process. It gives insight into what has changed and not changed in
this process. The book explains to readers that the Islamisation of
the country is not a coincidence. Rather, Islamism has been grown
symbiotically with the secular Republican regime through the
organizational power of Islamic sects and with the assistance of
the West. How we live as a nation today is not a revolution of
Islamists, as some scholars have remarked. Rather, it is a
continuation of the Turkish nation-building process with further
Islamisation.
Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social
movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two
overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify
commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of
strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the
decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance
of the general economic, social, and political conditions in which
these protests arose. Although there are specific national and
local context-specific reasons for the protests observed in
different countries, the gradual integration of the post-war
neo-liberal hegemonic world order is the fundamental overarching
structural factor behind these protests. From Turkey to Spain,
Greece to Mexico, and the Netherlands to the U.S., this book
observes that the "outsiders" of the system resist against the
oppression of the neo-liberal world system.
Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social
movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two
overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify
commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of
strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the
decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance
of the general economic, social, and political conditions in which
these protests arose. Although there are specific national and
local context-specific reasons for the protests observed in
different countries, the gradual integration of the post-war
neo-liberal hegemonic world order is the fundamental overarching
structural factor behind these protests. From Turkey to Spain,
Greece to Mexico, and the Netherlands to the U.S., this book
observes that the "outsiders" of the system resist against the
oppression of the neo-liberal world system.
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