Türkoğlu, Didem

2021

Kitap bölümü

İngilizce

Ever failed? Fail again, fail better: Tuition protests in Germany, Turkey, and the United States

Lorenzo, della Porta & Guzman-Concha (Eds.). Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism.

Palgrave Macmillan

10.1007/978-3-030-75754-0_11

269-292

At the turn of the millennium, multiple countries erupted in student protests against tuition hikes in public universities. Despite arising in varying political contexts, these protests followed remarkably similar paths to achieving concessions. In this chapter, I compare student protests against tuition hikes across three different welfare state types: Germany, Turkey, and the United States. I argue that the crucial commonality across these cases was the formation of unexpected alliances made possible by the failures of past movements. I offer a meso-level analysis of past “failures” that empowered strategic intentions through activists’ collective memory work. These positions offered new possibilities for brokerage, enabled and constrained different alliance configurations, especially with labor unions and civil society organizations. The legacy of the 1960s and the 1990s influenced the pathways available to the student activists in the 2000s.

Alemdaroğlu, Ayça

2021

Makale

İngilizce

Governing youth in times of dissent: Essay competitions, politics of history, and emotions

Turkish Studies

10.1080/14683849.2020.1868299

22(2)

222-241

This article examines the AKP’s youth politics in the aftermath of the 2013 Gezi Protests. It focuses on a seemingly mundane cultural practice of essay writing and student essay competitions to investigate the party’s message and methods in addressing young people. In particular, it examines the politics of history and emotional politics in the party's effort to construct and administer youth publics. The article argues that the AKP’s power is embedded in and reproduced by the articulation of political differences and mobilization of emotions, which play a significant role in the party’s broader bid to reorganize society, redefine collective identity, and control dissent.

Sahin, Ture

2021

Makale

İngilizce

Rethinking alternative youth identities in Izmir: 'Indifferently cool' manifestations

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

10.1177/1367549420919873

24(5)

1143-1159

This article discusses the self-identification and meaning-making processes of 'alternative' youth in Izmir, Turkey, by focusing on their own narratives and the microcosmos of their everyday life practices. The research argues that while alternative young individuals benefit from the global subcultural scene, particularly hipster subculture, they also create complex signifiers within their cultural environments to emphasise both individual subjectivities and shared 'alternative' group identities. The article claims that subcultures, with their styles, images and music that are consumed in imaginative ways, become productive and creative spheres of cultural production that are constantly at interplay with broader cultural forms in a given society. Hence, opening up a debate on youth subcultures has the potential to give salient clues about the transformations of society at large and its cultural values and beliefs. In this sense, the study formulates subcultures as offshoots - even forms of resistance - both drawing on and feeding mainstream cultural forms. The study is based on field research conducted among alternative youth in Izmir, Turkey - through participant observation, semi-structured interviews with youth groups and in-depth interviews with the owners and workers of the places where 'alternative' youth hang out. Since contemporary youth cultures in Turkey are a highly under-researched area, this article aims at mapping out a general framework towards a better understanding of the everyday practices and meaning worlds of alternative young people. It is hoped that this, in turn, will serve to pave the way for further research on youth subcultures in Turkey.

Bee, Cristiano

2021

Makale

İngilizce

The civic and political participation of young people in a context of heightened authoritarianism. The case of Turkey

JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES

10.1080/13676261.2019.1683523

24(1)

40-61

Applying insights from research on civic and political participation, this study focuses on the effects that the recent authoritarian turn taken by Turkey had on the expression of participatory behaviours by young people. The analysis brings about a number of contentious issues and intertwines two recent dynamics. First of all recent events (such as the protests associated with the occupygezi movement) show that youth in Turkey are extremely important players and political actors. Secondly, however, the authoritarian turn taken by the country under the AKP's governance resulted in serious and alarming limitations to the exercise of basic freedoms and hence participatory behaviours. Based on the results of 40 semi-structured interviews with young people involved in civil society organisations, the article discusses three aspects: young people's views of active citizenship; the instruments of empowerment that stimulate participatory behaviours and the significance attributed to different means of civic and political participation. The analysis reveals the complexity of active citizenship in a context of heightened authoritarianism and underlines the constraints put on the exercise of civic and political participation by the current government. It also unpacks the alarming consequences of the AKP agenda on the expression of freedoms, with a particular focus on the repression of participatory behaviours.

Bozan, Aysegul

2021

Makale

İngilizce

The Alevi issue and democratic rights in Turkey as seen by young AKP activists: social conflict, identity boundaries and some perspectives on recognition

SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES

10.1080/14683857.2021.1909283

21(2)

273-292

This paper discusses the Alevi-Sunni social conflict in Turkey through an examination of how the politically engaged youth of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) perceived the rights of the Alevi population around the time of the AKP's 'Democratic Opening'. Based on qualitative fieldwork involving 78 interviews conducted between 2009 and 2011 in seven different cities, the research focuses on the boundaries of AKP identity concerning Alevis' democratic demands and different modes of reconciliation with these. The results show the issue of Alevi politico-religious rights to reveal the religious, institutional and national boundaries of AKP political identity. In addition, the demand for the construction of a museum to commemorate the 1993 Madimak Massacre in Sivas triggered the Sunni memory boundaries of young activists in that city. The AKP youth also presented some approaches that reconciled with Alevi demands, classified as pragmatic, political and subjective.

Kutuk-Kuris, Merve

2021

Makale

İngilizce

Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey Devoted Mothers, Benevolent Philanthropists, and Leisure Enthusiasts

JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMENS STUDIES

10.1215/15525864-9306860

17(3)

395-422

Turkey's Islamic fashion market transformed during the 2010s with the entry of young, bourgeois, fashion-conscious Muslim female entrepreneurs. As designers, manufacturers, and retailers, these Muslim fashionistas not only gained the attention of youngMuslim women but also became lifestyle gurus, projecting images of the successful entrepreneur, the ideal mother, the benevolent philanthropist, and the leisure enthusiast. This combination of roles resonates with the notion of the ideal Muslim woman promoted by the government. But its performance entails moments of imperfection and moral dilemma, as the demands of capitalism and consumerism place Muslim fashionistas in opposition to the teachings of their faith and traditional gender regimes. Drawing on practice theory, and on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Istanbul, this article explores Muslim fashionistas' everyday performances in the fields of family, charity, and leisure. The objective is to analyze how these agents negotiate and interpret quotidian inconsistencies between their religious and social ideals and those ideals' manifestation.

Yabanci, Bilge

2021

Makale

İngilizce

Work for the Nation, Obey the State, Praise the Ummah: Turkey?s Government-oriented Youth Organizations in Cultivating a New Nation

ETHNOPOLITICS

10.1080/17449057.2019.1676536

20(4)

467-499

Modern Turkey?s emergence was a nationalist struggle that aimed to cultivate youth as secular citizens. Almost a century later, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) attempts to re-model youth through a new ethno-religious nationalist project. This study argues that different from the secular Kemalist social engineering that dominated the state?s youth policy for decades, the AKP relies on the intermediary agency of Islamist-conservative and government-oriented civil society to shape young generations and convey ethno-religious nationalism to youth. Seventeen government-oriented youth organizations illustrate the extent of the Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) quest for a new national identity and cultural hegemony within the broader context of Turkey?s steady decline into an authoritarian regime. The findings?based on original fieldwork conducted between October 2017?June 2019?demonstrate youth organizations? country-wide grassroots engagement in four categories: indoctrination, extra-curricular training, service provision in the education sector, and street activism and humanitarian work. Their self-defined goals, ideological roots and grassroots reach inject a new disciplinary ethos and statist values in youth towards shaping them as Muslim and nationalist ?ideal citizens?. The study offers insights on the societal aspects of authoritarian regime building and cautions that crafting ?successful? authoritarian regimes is not a one-way process that takes place only at the formal institutional level. A broad range of societal players and coalitions, including civil society, play a critical role in authoritarian regime building.

Kaymas, Serhat; Yakin, Orhun

2021

Makale

İngilizce

Re-reading the darkest side of the story: creative industries, cultural work and the formation of young employees under the hegemony of late capitalism in Turkey

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES JOURNAL

10.1080/17510694.2021.2005315

This article explores the ongoing relations between creative industries, cultural work and the formation of young Turkish creative professionals' self- realization practices under the existing conditions of Turkey's 'neo authoritarian' liberalism. Drawing on the relational work perspective from economic sociology and semi-structured interviews with the study's respondents (N:120), this article will be headed towards the reconsideration of social, economic, political and cultural constitutions of Turkish creative professionals' formation in the creative economies of Turkey. In contrast with the majority of existing studies on this topic, this study argues that, contemporary capitalism's impact on the creative professionals' formations is not the necessarily the same. Profound differences there exist. Especially, the cultural and economic constitutions of creative professionals' in any given states creative economies conditions. Therefore, my study would conclude that the impact of late capitalism on creative labour is not unidirectional at least not in Turkish labours case. Conversely, the post Fordist service economies provide some positive contributions to Turkish young creative labourers' subjectivities.

Lüküslü, Demet; Çelik, Kezban

2022

Makale

İngilizce

Gendering the NEET category: young NEET women in Turkey

Turkish Studies

10.1080/14683849.2021.1882861

23(2)

200-222

Lüküslü, Demet; Çelik, Kezban; Çakar, Yakut, Burcu; Yılmaz, Volkan; & Oy, Burcu

2014

Rapor

Türkçe

Aile, Piyasa ve Devlet Üçgeninde Genç Kadınlık Deneyimleri: ‘Ev Kızları’ ve ‘Yurt Kızları’

İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Gençlik Çalışmaları Birimi (GÇB)

http://genclik.bilgi.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GCB_Genc_Kad_C4_B1n_Rapor_.pdf

Lüküslü, Demet; Barbaros, Renan Funda & Zürcher, Erik-Jan(eds.),

2014

Kitap bölümü

Türkçe

12 Mart Rejiminin Gençlik Algısı

Modernizmin Yansımaları. 70’li Yıllarda Türkiye

Efil Yayınevi

Ankara

pp. 269-288

Lüküslü, Demet

2014

Kitap bölümü

İngilizce

Cyberspace in Turkey: A “Youthful” Space for Expressing Powerful Discontent and Suffering

Herrera & Sakr (Eds.). Wired Citizenship: Youth learning and activism in the Middle East

Routledge

76-88