The Rise of Global Far-Right, State Capitalism, and Covid-19: A Critical Assessment

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4th International Congress of Human Studies, Ankara, Türkiye, 10 - 11 Aralık 2021, ss.77, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.77
  • Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
  • Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The purpose of this study is to critically assess the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the rise of the global far-right in the context of state capitalism literature. Far-right politics have started to rise globally following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and it has become even more visible with the Covid-19 pandemic. Issues like anti-immigration, authoritarian populism, anti-intellectualism, and economic nationalism have merged with anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protests. State capitalism has also become visible in the post-2008 era not only in developing countries like China and Russia but also in central countries with examples of Brexit and Trump. State capitalism does not define an economy in which the state dominates the market entirely, instead, it characterises a free market economy where governments manage capital accumulation by tools like state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). By doing so, governments also control social and political life and consolidate authoritarian rules. In this study, first, the burgeoning literature around the rise of global far-right and state capitalism will be evaluated and then the position of states vis-á-vis markets and global capitalism will be assessed.