Kaan Agartan
Biographic Data
| ID | 262281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaan Agartan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaan |
| FAMILY NAME | Agartan |
| SIGNATURE | AGARTAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Framingham State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9599-7568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contemporary Social Movements and Radical Democracy
Radical democracy and social movements have an intricate relationship as the former is often expected to inform, inspire, and guide the latter to challenge oppressive social orders and power structures – yet, not always successfully. This article offers an analysis of contemporary social movements in Colombia and Turkey to show the limits and potential of radical democracy to reimagine new expressions of citizenship and non-capitalist alternative…
Roundtable on Kaan Ağartan’s Gezi
Reimagining Radical Democracy in the Global South
Radical democracy informs contemporary social movements both as critique of existing liberal democratic social orders and as inspiration for collective action to challenge power structures. However, existing approaches on the relationship between radical democracy and social movements often truncate complex socio-political issues, constraining political imagination and stifling 'truly radical' alternatives. This Element offers an analysis of cont…
All the Difference in the World
As the idea of citizenship has become a token for increasingly exclusionary manifestations of national identity, this article is a call for higher education institutions to honor their commitment to cultivating global citizens, yet with significant caveats. We argue that the proliferation of global learning initiatives in an increasingly neoliberalized university promotes a particular type of global citizen: a well-trained employee with intercult…
Globalization and Global Justice
Global justice (GJ) is a term that lies at the heart of the question of fair distribution of benefits and burdens across the world. While it has been, to date, mostly political philosophers who examined the normative underpinnings of the obligations to the globally disadvantaged and left behind, the deep‐seated processes of globalization continue to have a real and tangible impact on the lives and fortunes of people all around the world. After pa…
Politics of the Square
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Beyond politics of privatization
This paper probes into the underlying factors for the exceptionally slow progress of mass privatizations in Turkey until the first decade of the 21st century. Challenging the mainstream political economy perspectives which often interpret Turkish ‘exceptionalism’ by focusing either on rationally motivated actors articulating their interests or on flaws in the institutional infrastructure as decisive impediments, the paper emphasizes the role of i…
Ayşe Buğra, Osman Savaşkan. New Capitalism in Turkey
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Globalization and the Question of Social Justice
Previous conceptions of social justice presupposed a closed political community in which nation‐states were to be in full control of policy instruments that reinforced mechanisms of social justice. States’ governing capacity to deliver social justice to their citizens has been challenged in the face of deepening transnational interactions and interdependencies in economic, political, and cultural realms, as these interactions and interdependencie…
Turkey’s accession to the European Union and the Turkish Labor Movement
This article argues that regionalism carries an important potential to transform the environment in which organized labor struggles to improve the rights, freedoms and livelihoods of working populations. By examining developments in the social and employment policy fields in the European Union (EU) and the emergence of new supra-national venues of communication and cooperation for labor organizations at the national and European levels, the paper…
Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century
Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions explore the impact of this commodification process
Politics of the Square
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Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century
Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions explore the impact of this commodification process
Turkey’s accession to the European Union and the Turkish Labor Movement
This article argues that regionalism carries an important potential to transform the environment in which organized labor struggles to improve the rights, freedoms and livelihoods of working populations. By examining developments in the social and employment policy fields in the European Union (EU) and the emergence of new supra-national venues of communication and cooperation for labor organizations at the national and European levels, the paper…
Globalization and the Question of Social Justice
Previous conceptions of social justice presupposed a closed political community in which nation‐states were to be in full control of policy instruments that reinforced mechanisms of social justice. States’ governing capacity to deliver social justice to their citizens has been challenged in the face of deepening transnational interactions and interdependencies in economic, political, and cultural realms, as these interactions and interdependencie…
Ayşe Buğra, Osman Savaşkan. New Capitalism in Turkey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond politics of privatization
This paper probes into the underlying factors for the exceptionally slow progress of mass privatizations in Turkey until the first decade of the 21st century. Challenging the mainstream political economy perspectives which often interpret Turkish ‘exceptionalism’ by focusing either on rationally motivated actors articulating their interests or on flaws in the institutional infrastructure as decisive impediments, the paper emphasizes the role of i…
Politics of the Square
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
All the Difference in the World
As the idea of citizenship has become a token for increasingly exclusionary manifestations of national identity, this article is a call for higher education institutions to honor their commitment to cultivating global citizens, yet with significant caveats. We argue that the proliferation of global learning initiatives in an increasingly neoliberalized university promotes a particular type of global citizen: a well-trained employee with intercult…
Globalization and Global Justice
Global justice (GJ) is a term that lies at the heart of the question of fair distribution of benefits and burdens across the world. While it has been, to date, mostly political philosophers who examined the normative underpinnings of the obligations to the globally disadvantaged and left behind, the deep‐seated processes of globalization continue to have a real and tangible impact on the lives and fortunes of people all around the world. After pa…
Reimagining Radical Democracy in the Global South
Radical democracy informs contemporary social movements both as critique of existing liberal democratic social orders and as inspiration for collective action to challenge power structures. However, existing approaches on the relationship between radical democracy and social movements often truncate complex socio-political issues, constraining political imagination and stifling 'truly radical' alternatives. This Element offers an analysis of cont…
Roundtable on Kaan Ağartan’s Gezi
Contemporary Social Movements and Radical Democracy
Radical democracy and social movements have an intricate relationship as the former is often expected to inform, inspire, and guide the latter to challenge oppressive social orders and power structures – yet, not always successfully. This article offers an analysis of contemporary social movements in Colombia and Turkey to show the limits and potential of radical democracy to reimagine new expressions of citizenship and non-capitalist alternative…
Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Globalization (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works)