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dc.contributor.author | Ongur, Hakan Övünç | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zengin, Hüseyin | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-25T14:34:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-25T14:34:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ongur, H. Ö., & Zengin, H. (2019). Reading Agamben backwards: Syrian refugees, biopolitics and sovereignty in Turkey. Social Science Information, 58(1), 103-120. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0539-0184 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/2957 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018419831944 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Despite the growing literature that adapts the Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben’s theory of sovereignty to the analysis of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) increasing authoritarian politics in Turkey, this article draws attention to the theoretical pitfalls of this tendency and argues that these studies mostly fall into the trap of mistaking the consolidation of populist power with the establishment of sovereignty. Utilising the AKP’s biopolitical agenda over Syrian refugees fleeing to Turkey as a case study, we attempt to realize a theoretical twist and offer to read Agamben backwards; that is to say, instead of starting with the assumption that the AKP has established sovereignty in the country, we question whether the party is indeed able to perform a consistent type of biopolitics over the Syrian refugees that would suggest the existence of such sovereignty in the first place. Consequently, our analysis reveals that it is not an Agambenian ‘state of exception’ established by the AKP leadership in Turkey that makes recent Turkish politics look more authoritarian than ever; instead, what we witness is a continuation of a strong state tradition inherited from Turkey’s founding Kemalist era that still determines the boundaries of state–society relations in the country. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Malgré la publication croissante d’une littérature scientifique transposant la théorie de la souveraineté du penseur italien Giorgio Agamben à l’analyse des politiques autoritaires en plein essor du Parti de la justice et du développement (AKP) au pouvoir en Turquie, cet article attire l’attention sur les écueils théoriques de cette tendance et avance l’idée que ces études font majoritairement l’erreur de confondre la consolidation d’un pouvoir populiste avec l’instauration de la souveraineté. Utilisant comme étude de cas l’agenda biopolitique qu’adopte l’AKP pour les réfugiés syriens fuyant en Turquie, nous tentons d’opérer un renversement théorique et de lire Agamben à rebours?; c’est-à-dire que, au lieu de commencer par l’hypothèse que l’AKP a instauré sa souveraineté sur le pays, nous nous demandons plutôt si le parti est en réalité capable d’exercer un type cohérent de biopolitique sur les réfugiés syriens, qui suggérerait, en premier lieu, l’existence d’une telle souveraineté. De cette façon, notre analyse révèle que ce n’est pas un ‘état d’exception’ agambenien qu’a établi le leadership de l’AKP en Turquie, et qui fait que les politiques turques récentes ont l’air plus autoritaires que jamais?; ce que nous observons plutôt est le prolongement de la tradition d’un État fort, héritée de l’époque fondatrice de la Turquie kémaliste, et qui continue de tracer les frontières des relations entre l’État et la société dans le pays. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Social Science Information | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Agamben | en_US |
dc.subject | biopolitics | en_US |
dc.subject | sovereignty | en_US |
dc.subject | Syrian refugees | en_US |
dc.subject | Turkey | en_US |
dc.subject | Agamben | fr_FR |
dc.subject | biopolitique | fr_FR |
dc.subject | souveraineté | fr_FR |
dc.subject | réfugiés syriens | fr_FR |
dc.subject | Turquie | fr_FR |
dc.title | Reading Agamben Backwards: Syrian Refugees, Biopolitics and Sovereignty in Turkey | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.department | Faculties, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and International Relations | en_US |
dc.department | Fakülteler, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü | tr_TR |
dc.identifier.volume | 58 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 103 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 120 | |
dc.authorid | 0000-0002-8832-3693 | - |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000469342000004 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85062369124 | en_US |
dc.institutionauthor | Ongur, Hakan Övünç | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0539018419831944 | - |
dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q3 | - |
item.openairetype | Article | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.grantfulltext | none | - |
item.fulltext | No Fulltext | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
crisitem.author.dept | 04.04. Department of Political Science and International Relations | - |
Appears in Collections: | Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü / Department of Political Science and International Relations WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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