Browsing by Subject "Capitalism"
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Agrarian Change, Industrialization and Geopolitics: Beyond the Turkish Sonderweg
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)This article takes issue with the common view that the early Turkish Republic (1920-1940) followed a “special” route to modernity characterized by “state capitalism.” It argues that such a view, rooted in the Sonderweg ...
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Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Re-interpreting the Ottoman path to modernity
(Cambridgen University Press, 2018)Debates over ‘modernity’ have been central to the development of historical-sociological approaches to International Relations (IR). Within the bourgeoning subfield of International Historical Sociology (IHS), much work ...
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Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-30)This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the development of the modern world through the concept of Jacobinism. It argues that the French Revolution was not just another step in the construction of capitalist modernity, ...
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Capitalist Modernity a la Turca: Turkey’s ‘Great Transformation’ Reconsidered
(Sage, 2013)Many scholars associated the recent transformation of Turkish democracy with the rise of a new bourgeois class and the neoliberal restructuring of the world economy. Using a social property relations approach, I provide a ...
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Class, State and Property: Modernity and Capitalism in Turkey
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)This paper argues that the class-based analyses that seek to make sense of the recent transformation of Turkish modernity rest on a pre-given duality between the state and the bourgeoisie. This not only jettisons the ...
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Dark Light: Utopia and the Question of Relative Surplus Population
(2016)This article addresses the question of the actuality of Sir Thomas More's Utopia by arguing for the centrality within More's text of the question of forcibly displaced and economically “surplused” populations. Drawing upon ...
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Factories, Utopias, Decoration and Upholstery: On Utopia, Modernism, and Everyday Life
(2014)This essay explores the ways in which the notion of “everyday life” helps us stage a theoretically productive encounter between modernism/modernity and utopia within the context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ...
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The international relations of ‘bourgeois revolutions’: Disputing the Turkish Revolution
(Sage journals, 2018)The study of revolutions is at the forefront of the growing field of International Historical Sociology. As International Historical Sociology scholars have sought to uncover the spatio-temporally changing character of ...
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Radicalising Global IR: Modernity, Capitalism, and the Question of Eurocentrism
(Oxford University Press, 2022)Theorising a non-Eurocentric “global international relations” has been a main preoccupation of scholars associated with international political sociology (IPS). In this article, I argue that scholars within the IPS tradition ...