Bengi Akbulut
Biographic Data
| ID | 207311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bengi Akbulut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bengi |
| FAMILY NAME | Akbulut |
| SIGNATURE | AKBULUT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6156-1632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Diverse Economies: Degrowth, Ecology, and Politics
Biophysicality, Social Reproduction and the Limits of Renewables Capitalism
This article debates the prospect of renewables capitalism and the hypothesis that capitalism per se does not require fossil fuels from a feminist degrowth perspective by elucidating how capitalism, its imperatives and its contradictions - and thus the potentiality of renewables capitalism - would be viewed from this perspective. To this end, the article outlines a feminist degrowth understanding of capitalism by building on traditions and framew…
Decolonizing development economics: A critique of the late neoclassical reason
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —concepts of class
Although I am highly critical of Matthew Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, I share with him a conviction of the centrality of class in any analysis of climate change. I engage with the argument that Matthew Huber develops under two headings: first, his conceptualization of class, working-class interests, and working-class politics, and second, what the analytic of socioecological reproduction could …
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum
Alternatives to sustainable development: What Can We Learn From the Pluriverse in Practice
Pour une décroissance écosocialiste
Michael Löwy, membre de la rédaction, nous fait parvenir cette déclaration écrite par des universitaires décroissants et écosocialistes, que nous publions volontiers. Elle a paru initialement dans la Monthly Review de New York en avril 2022
A Multidimensional Approach to the Gender Gap in Poverty: An Application for Turkey
Conventional poverty measures have long been criticized as a poor gauge of quality of life. Household-level income or expenditure data used in these measures are silent on intrahousehold inequalities and capture means to an end rather than outcomes and opportunities individuals face. This article constructs a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to address these problems. It calculates multidimensional poverty for Turkey in four equally weighted …
Degrowth
Degrowth has become a forceful conceptual framework and a political mobilizer for imagining and enacting alternative ways of articulating society, the economy, and nature. While it is most straightforwardly understood as material downscaling, degrowth denotes a far more encompassing transformation: a break with the ideology of growth, the repoliticization of the economy, and a reorientation of economic relations along different principles. This e…
Commons: A Social Outcome of the Movement of the Squares
This paper examines the evolvement of the ‘movement of the squares’ following the end of the more visible cycles of mobilization of the squares ́ occupations. We argue that a crucial aspect of this evolution lies in the creation of a social infrastructure of alternative (re)productive projects in the form of commons. We call this type of outcomes ‘social’ in order to distinguish them from the cultural, political and biographical outcomes underlin…
The Ecological Economics of Economic Democracy
Erdoğan’s three-pillared neoliberalism: Authoritarianism, populism and developmentalism
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
The 'state' of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey
Critical perspectives on economic growth have laid bare the fragility of the assumed link between material growth and socio-ecological wellbeing. The appeal of economic growth, however, goes beyond the economic sphere. As a societal goal, growth is often mobilized to pre-empt and/or co-opt opposition around issues of social justice and redistribution. Not only does the constitution of growth as a collective goal serve to unite the internally frag…
Neoliberal developmentalism, authoritarian populism, and extractivism in the countryside: The Soma mining disaster in Turkey
While state-society relations in Turkey have historically been top-down and coups d'état periodically interrupted democratic politics, the recent authoritarian turn under Erdoğan is remarkable. Two dynamics are especially salient. First, Erdoğan and his AKP have been particularly effective in deepening the neoliberalisation of economy and society. Their policies have created a new form of neoliberal developmentalism, where solutions to all social…
The Decimation and Displacement of Development Economics
Contemporary mainstream development economics is an overdetermined product of three historical processes: the late neoclassical turn within mainstream economic theory; transformations within the institutional-discursive matrix of development, from growth-centred policies to poverty alleviation- and good governance-oriented policies; and a broader transition from post-war Keynesian developmentalism (with its variants in the second and third worlds…
Environmentalism of the malcontent: Anatomy of an anti-coal power plant struggle in Turkey
This paper introduces the concept of the 'environmentalism of the malcontent' to characterise a type of environmental activism that is increasingly common in Turkey. It illustrates its argument by analysing the resistance movement against the proposed Gerze coal power plant. By so doing, it problematises the relationship between class and environmental consciousness as well as the ability of the existing literature to accurately characterise the …
Community‐Based Resource Management in Turkey: ‘Je Participe, Tu Participes, Il Participe… Ils Profitent’ 1
The current discourse and practice of natural resource management rest on the assumption that participatory decision‐making mechanisms offer efficient and equitable policy solutions. There is increasing recognition, however, that such mechanisms might fail in ensuring effective participation of all stakeholders and, consequently, be prone to (re)producing inequalities and remaining ineffective in environmental protection. Taking this observation …
Neoliberal developmentalism, authoritarian populism, and extractivism in the countryside: The Soma mining disaster in Turkey
While state-society relations in Turkey have historically been top-down and coups d'état periodically interrupted democratic politics, the recent authoritarian turn under Erdoğan is remarkable. Two dynamics are especially salient. First, Erdoğan and his AKP have been particularly effective in deepening the neoliberalisation of economy and society. Their policies have created a new form of neoliberal developmentalism, where solutions to all social…
Erdoğan’s three-pillared neoliberalism: Authoritarianism, populism and developmentalism
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
Environmentalism of the malcontent: Anatomy of an anti-coal power plant struggle in Turkey
This paper introduces the concept of the 'environmentalism of the malcontent' to characterise a type of environmental activism that is increasingly common in Turkey. It illustrates its argument by analysing the resistance movement against the proposed Gerze coal power plant. By so doing, it problematises the relationship between class and environmental consciousness as well as the ability of the existing literature to accurately characterise the …
Alternatives to sustainable development: What Can We Learn From the Pluriverse in Practice
Degrowth
Degrowth has become a forceful conceptual framework and a political mobilizer for imagining and enacting alternative ways of articulating society, the economy, and nature. While it is most straightforwardly understood as material downscaling, degrowth denotes a far more encompassing transformation: a break with the ideology of growth, the repoliticization of the economy, and a reorientation of economic relations along different principles. This e…
The 'state' of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey
Critical perspectives on economic growth have laid bare the fragility of the assumed link between material growth and socio-ecological wellbeing. The appeal of economic growth, however, goes beyond the economic sphere. As a societal goal, growth is often mobilized to pre-empt and/or co-opt opposition around issues of social justice and redistribution. Not only does the constitution of growth as a collective goal serve to unite the internally frag…
Commons: A Social Outcome of the Movement of the Squares
This paper examines the evolvement of the ‘movement of the squares’ following the end of the more visible cycles of mobilization of the squares ́ occupations. We argue that a crucial aspect of this evolution lies in the creation of a social infrastructure of alternative (re)productive projects in the form of commons. We call this type of outcomes ‘social’ in order to distinguish them from the cultural, political and biographical outcomes underlin…
Community‐Based Resource Management in Turkey: ‘Je Participe, Tu Participes, Il Participe… Ils Profitent’ 1
The current discourse and practice of natural resource management rest on the assumption that participatory decision‐making mechanisms offer efficient and equitable policy solutions. There is increasing recognition, however, that such mechanisms might fail in ensuring effective participation of all stakeholders and, consequently, be prone to (re)producing inequalities and remaining ineffective in environmental protection. Taking this observation …
Decolonizing development economics: A critique of the late neoclassical reason
The Decimation and Displacement of Development Economics
Contemporary mainstream development economics is an overdetermined product of three historical processes: the late neoclassical turn within mainstream economic theory; transformations within the institutional-discursive matrix of development, from growth-centred policies to poverty alleviation- and good governance-oriented policies; and a broader transition from post-war Keynesian developmentalism (with its variants in the second and third worlds…
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —concepts of class
Although I am highly critical of Matthew Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, I share with him a conviction of the centrality of class in any analysis of climate change. I engage with the argument that Matthew Huber develops under two headings: first, his conceptualization of class, working-class interests, and working-class politics, and second, what the analytic of socioecological reproduction could …
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum
A Multidimensional Approach to the Gender Gap in Poverty: An Application for Turkey
Conventional poverty measures have long been criticized as a poor gauge of quality of life. Household-level income or expenditure data used in these measures are silent on intrahousehold inequalities and capture means to an end rather than outcomes and opportunities individuals face. This article constructs a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to address these problems. It calculates multidimensional poverty for Turkey in four equally weighted …
Community‐Based Resource Management in Turkey: ‘Je Participe, Tu Participes, Il Participe… Ils Profitent’ 1
The current discourse and practice of natural resource management rest on the assumption that participatory decision‐making mechanisms offer efficient and equitable policy solutions. There is increasing recognition, however, that such mechanisms might fail in ensuring effective participation of all stakeholders and, consequently, be prone to (re)producing inequalities and remaining ineffective in environmental protection. Taking this observation …
The Decimation and Displacement of Development Economics
Contemporary mainstream development economics is an overdetermined product of three historical processes: the late neoclassical turn within mainstream economic theory; transformations within the institutional-discursive matrix of development, from growth-centred policies to poverty alleviation- and good governance-oriented policies; and a broader transition from post-war Keynesian developmentalism (with its variants in the second and third worlds…
Environmentalism of the malcontent: Anatomy of an anti-coal power plant struggle in Turkey
This paper introduces the concept of the 'environmentalism of the malcontent' to characterise a type of environmental activism that is increasingly common in Turkey. It illustrates its argument by analysing the resistance movement against the proposed Gerze coal power plant. By so doing, it problematises the relationship between class and environmental consciousness as well as the ability of the existing literature to accurately characterise the …
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
The 'state' of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey
Critical perspectives on economic growth have laid bare the fragility of the assumed link between material growth and socio-ecological wellbeing. The appeal of economic growth, however, goes beyond the economic sphere. As a societal goal, growth is often mobilized to pre-empt and/or co-opt opposition around issues of social justice and redistribution. Not only does the constitution of growth as a collective goal serve to unite the internally frag…
Neoliberal developmentalism, authoritarian populism, and extractivism in the countryside: The Soma mining disaster in Turkey
While state-society relations in Turkey have historically been top-down and coups d'état periodically interrupted democratic politics, the recent authoritarian turn under Erdoğan is remarkable. Two dynamics are especially salient. First, Erdoğan and his AKP have been particularly effective in deepening the neoliberalisation of economy and society. Their policies have created a new form of neoliberal developmentalism, where solutions to all social…
The Ecological Economics of Economic Democracy
Erdoğan’s three-pillared neoliberalism: Authoritarianism, populism and developmentalism
A Multidimensional Approach to the Gender Gap in Poverty: An Application for Turkey
Conventional poverty measures have long been criticized as a poor gauge of quality of life. Household-level income or expenditure data used in these measures are silent on intrahousehold inequalities and capture means to an end rather than outcomes and opportunities individuals face. This article constructs a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to address these problems. It calculates multidimensional poverty for Turkey in four equally weighted …
Degrowth
Degrowth has become a forceful conceptual framework and a political mobilizer for imagining and enacting alternative ways of articulating society, the economy, and nature. While it is most straightforwardly understood as material downscaling, degrowth denotes a far more encompassing transformation: a break with the ideology of growth, the repoliticization of the economy, and a reorientation of economic relations along different principles. This e…
Commons: A Social Outcome of the Movement of the Squares
This paper examines the evolvement of the ‘movement of the squares’ following the end of the more visible cycles of mobilization of the squares ́ occupations. We argue that a crucial aspect of this evolution lies in the creation of a social infrastructure of alternative (re)productive projects in the form of commons. We call this type of outcomes ‘social’ in order to distinguish them from the cultural, political and biographical outcomes underlin…
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum
Alternatives to sustainable development: What Can We Learn From the Pluriverse in Practice
Pour une décroissance écosocialiste
Michael Löwy, membre de la rédaction, nous fait parvenir cette déclaration écrite par des universitaires décroissants et écosocialistes, que nous publions volontiers. Elle a paru initialement dans la Monthly Review de New York en avril 2022
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —concepts of class
Although I am highly critical of Matthew Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, I share with him a conviction of the centrality of class in any analysis of climate change. I engage with the argument that Matthew Huber develops under two headings: first, his conceptualization of class, working-class interests, and working-class politics, and second, what the analytic of socioecological reproduction could …
Decolonizing development economics: A critique of the late neoclassical reason
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Diverse Economies: Degrowth, Ecology, and Politics
Biophysicality, Social Reproduction and the Limits of Renewables Capitalism
This article debates the prospect of renewables capitalism and the hypothesis that capitalism per se does not require fossil fuels from a feminist degrowth perspective by elucidating how capitalism, its imperatives and its contradictions - and thus the potentiality of renewables capitalism - would be viewed from this perspective. To this end, the article outlines a feminist degrowth understanding of capitalism by building on traditions and framew…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Degrowth (6 works) · Economic system (6 works)