Ahmet Bekmen
Biographic Data
| ID | 258080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmet Bekmen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmet |
| FAMILY NAME | Bekmen |
| SIGNATURE | BEKMEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istanbul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4500-4796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Labouring under Democracy in Indonesia and Turkey: Workers, Nationalism, and Islam
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey
This article puts Turkey's current state crisis into a historical perspective. During the transition to neo-liberalism after the hegemony crisis of the late 1970s, a critical objective for those in the high echelons of bureaucracy and ruling politicians was to ensure the security of state apparatuses. However, the policies implemented to achieve this led to fragmentation in both the state and the political spheres. Thus, during the second half of…
From the streets to ballot boxes: The decline of activist-based social movements in Turkey
At the end of May 2013, an activist-based resistance started against the attempt of the government let by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to destroy Gezi Park in Istanbul in order to build a shopping mall.Within two days it had turned into the largest social mobilisation in Turkey's modern history.Gezi Park remained under the control of the demonstrators until mid-June 2013, after which the confrontation between the police and the demonstrators continued in…
The Rise and Demise of Neoliberal Populism as a Hegemonic Project: Brazil, Thailand, and Turkey
Three countries—Turkey, Thailand, and Brazil—exemplify the rise of neoliberal populism as a response to the crisis created in peripheral social formations by their integration into global capitalism. This essay thus begins by examining the social dimensions of neoliberal populism: namely, the formation of its social base, its policies of economic inclusion, and its organic relations with revisionist capitalist groups. Since these countries have u…
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left
This article examines transition in Kocaeli, an industrial city in the north-western part of Turkey, away from left-wing politics and trade unionism in the early 1970s, and toward Islamic politics from the mid-1990s onwards. It does do by investigating the ideological, political, and social transformation of the working class. Based on fieldwork involving in-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with current and former workers and trade unio…
Passive Revolution: Beyond a Politicist Approach
Turkey reframed: Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony
Turkey Reframed: Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony
The Rise and Demise of Neoliberal Populism as a Hegemonic Project: Brazil, Thailand, and Turkey
Three countries—Turkey, Thailand, and Brazil—exemplify the rise of neoliberal populism as a response to the crisis created in peripheral social formations by their integration into global capitalism. This essay thus begins by examining the social dimensions of neoliberal populism: namely, the formation of its social base, its policies of economic inclusion, and its organic relations with revisionist capitalist groups. Since these countries have u…
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey
This article puts Turkey's current state crisis into a historical perspective. During the transition to neo-liberalism after the hegemony crisis of the late 1970s, a critical objective for those in the high echelons of bureaucracy and ruling politicians was to ensure the security of state apparatuses. However, the policies implemented to achieve this led to fragmentation in both the state and the political spheres. Thus, during the second half of…
Passive Revolution: Beyond a Politicist Approach
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left
This article examines transition in Kocaeli, an industrial city in the north-western part of Turkey, away from left-wing politics and trade unionism in the early 1970s, and toward Islamic politics from the mid-1990s onwards. It does do by investigating the ideological, political, and social transformation of the working class. Based on fieldwork involving in-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with current and former workers and trade unio…
Turkey Reframed: Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony
Turkey reframed: Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony
Passive Revolution: Beyond a Politicist Approach
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left
This article examines transition in Kocaeli, an industrial city in the north-western part of Turkey, away from left-wing politics and trade unionism in the early 1970s, and toward Islamic politics from the mid-1990s onwards. It does do by investigating the ideological, political, and social transformation of the working class. Based on fieldwork involving in-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with current and former workers and trade unio…
From the streets to ballot boxes: The decline of activist-based social movements in Turkey
At the end of May 2013, an activist-based resistance started against the attempt of the government let by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to destroy Gezi Park in Istanbul in order to build a shopping mall.Within two days it had turned into the largest social mobilisation in Turkey's modern history.Gezi Park remained under the control of the demonstrators until mid-June 2013, after which the confrontation between the police and the demonstrators continued in…
The Rise and Demise of Neoliberal Populism as a Hegemonic Project: Brazil, Thailand, and Turkey
Three countries—Turkey, Thailand, and Brazil—exemplify the rise of neoliberal populism as a response to the crisis created in peripheral social formations by their integration into global capitalism. This essay thus begins by examining the social dimensions of neoliberal populism: namely, the formation of its social base, its policies of economic inclusion, and its organic relations with revisionist capitalist groups. Since these countries have u…
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey
This article puts Turkey's current state crisis into a historical perspective. During the transition to neo-liberalism after the hegemony crisis of the late 1970s, a critical objective for those in the high echelons of bureaucracy and ruling politicians was to ensure the security of state apparatuses. However, the policies implemented to achieve this led to fragmentation in both the state and the political spheres. Thus, during the second half of…
Labouring under Democracy in Indonesia and Turkey: Workers, Nationalism, and Islam
Political science (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Hegemony (3 works) · History (3 works)