Urbanisation as a Hegemonic Project
Politics without Borders: A cross-disciplinary exploration of the challenges facing a globalised world, Nottingham, İngiltere, 12 - 13 Haziran 2014, (Yayınlanmadı)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Yayınlanmadı
- Basıldığı Şehir: Nottingham
- Basıldığı Ülke: İngiltere
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
The major aim of this paper is to demonstrate how social classes in Turkey have positioned whilst the AKP accelerated urban renewal projects and to what extent they have been supportive of the AKP’s policies. The position of capital vis-à-vis urbanism since 2002 will be examined and fractionation of capital will be argued in this chapter. Along with capital, the AKP’s attempt to reproduce the hegemony by utilising discourses around urban planning, relations of possession and dispossession, strategy of postponing economic crisis via construction-based growth and finally resistance against AKP’s policies will be examined. This chapter will primarily investigate the current government’s discourse on urban planning. Dispossession of subaltern groups will be another dimension of the chapter. Especially within the urban renewal projects, some certain groups are being dispossessed and their possessions are transformed to certain big capitalists. In this paper it is argued that urbanisation constitutes one of three main pillars of the AKP’s neoliberal hegemony, along with education and media. This paper starts with a theoretical framework of urbanisation and hegemony through urbanisation. After this conceptualisation, the importance of urbanisation for capitalism in Turkey will be given. Justification will be followed by a periodisation of urban developments in Turkey will be given. This historical section will be pursued by description of agents. After this presentation of urbanisation in Turkey, analytical section of the chapter will be provided. Analytical section will include evidences from capital groups, the Turkish government, and trade unions. Gezi uprising will be discussed as well within the analysis. Finally this chapter will argue that the production of consent by the AKP for urban regeneration represents one of the main three pillars of the AKP’s hegemony whereas the growing resistance against urban regeneration indicates a decrease in consent and this decrease leads us to authoritarian rule of the AKP. In order to prove this argument the social forces who are supportive and dissident of political Islam and neo-liberal restructuring and AKP’s articulation of discourse around neo-liberal restructuring will be examined. Finally the extent of neo-liberal urbanism as a hegemonic process will be understood and this will lead us to the main argument of the thesis that is civil society is not necessarily progressive.