Cemal Burak Tansel
Biographic Data
| ID | 270744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cemal Burak Tansel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cemal Burak |
| FAMILY NAME | Tansel |
| SIGNATURE | TANSEL C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7586-459X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 352 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below
Confronting the coming five decades from our present conjuncture demands – to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci’s famous mantra – both critical pessimism and a wilful politics of hope. In this article, we engage with the politics of climate breakdown and the responses to wider socio-ecological crises with a necessary critical pessimism. Specifically, we confront the capture of green transition imperatives by finance capital, as well as the troubling ori…
Historical materialism and international studies
This forum brings together critical engagements with Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton's Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis to assess the prospects and limits of historical materialism in International Studies. The authors' call for a 'necessarily historical materialist moment' in International Studies is interrogated by scholars working with historical materialist, feminist and decolonial frameworks in and beyond International Relat…
Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago
Mass incarceration, police brutality, and border controls are part and parcel of the everyday experiences of marginalized and racialized communities across the world. Recent scholarship in international relations, sociology, and geography has examined the prevalence of these coercive practices through the prism of 'disciplinary,' 'penal,' or 'authoritarian' neoliberalism. In this collective discussion, we argue that although this literature has b…
Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Authoritarian neoliberalism
Authoritarian Neoliberalism
The Shape of ‘Rising Powers’ to Come? The Antinomies of Growth and Neoliberal Development in Turkey
The short-term GDP growth-based economic success of the BRICS has spawned a trend of grouping large emerging market economies under shared monikers. The proliferation of a wide array of labels – from MINTs to VISTAs – within political and financial circles has been accompanied by a growing scholarly interest in the study of these ‘emerging markets’ and future ‘rising powers’. This paper discusses the literature on Turkey’s ‘rising power’ status t…
Neoliberalism and the Antagonisms of Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
This essay examines the evolving symbiosis of authoritarian state power and neoliberal governance in the Middle East in the wake of the 2007–8 economic crisis and popular uprisings in 2011–13. I revisit the debates on “authoritarian resilience” in the region to highlight that the efforts to push through neoliberal reforms in the face of popular opposition have expanded the scope of authoritarian rule. However, the strengthening of the executive p…
Authoritarian neoliberalism
This introduction to the special issue takes as its point of departure three centres of gravity that have shaped the study of neoliberalism but have also established barriers to further progress in these debates. By promoting an intersectional materialist research agenda which challenges extant ideational, modernist and empiricist tendencies in scholarship on neoliberalism, the essay contextualizes the special issue articles by outlining and clar…
Reproducing authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey
The implosion of popular struggles against the erosion of economic and democratic rights in the Middle East has thrown into sharp relief the co-constitutive character of neoliberal reforms and authoritarian state practices. This article zooms in on this relationship, and traces the consolidation of a core component of authoritarian statisms by examining how the ruling AKP government in Turkey has facilitated executive centralization. This process…
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey
Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey's 'authoritarian turn' and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the 'economic' and the 'political' factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party's methods …
States of Discipline
Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and the widespread aversion towards austerity policies, neoliberalism remains the dominant mode of economic governance in the world. What makes neoliberalism such a resilient mode of economic and political governance? How does neoliberalism effectively reproduce itself in the face of popular opposition? States of Discipline offers an answer to these questions by highlighting the ways in which tod…
The making of neoliberal Turkey
The making of neoliberal Turkey
Despite the recurring criticisms of its analytical power and the perceived fuzziness of its parameters, neoliberalism remains a key concept in the toolkit of critical social sciences and the vast l
Passive revolutions and the dynamics of social change in the peripheries
Tansel’s contribution to the debate dissects the concept of passive revolution and highlights the significance of understanding passive revolutions as concrete historical episodes of mobilisation and state formation
Introduction
This introduction to the ROAPE debate reasserts the centrality of revolutionary theory to understand the dynamics of social and political struggles in contemporary Middle East and North Africa. Framed around the conceptual and political interventions brought about by Brecht De Smet’s Gramsci on Tahrir (2016), we discuss the utility of Gramscian concepts in explaining the trajectories of social mobilisations in the peripheries of global capitalism
Debtfare states and the poverty industry
The crisis of 2007–2008 and the highly uneven and politically contentious economic ‘recovery’ that followed it have accentuated neoliberalism’s ability to mutate and adapt itself to new challenges
Geopolitics, social forces, and the international
This article contributes to current debates in materialist geopolitics and contemporary IR theorising by restating the centrality of social forces for conceptualising geopolitics. It does so by offering a detailed conceptual reading of the corpus of the ‘Eastern Question’, which is composed of a series of political analyses written by Marx and Engels in the period of 1853–6. This archive presents unique analytical and conceptual insights beyond t…
The Politics of Contemporary Capitalism in Turkey (and the Politics of its Interlocutors)
The enduring relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital
Deafening silence? Marxism, international historical sociology and the spectre of Eurocentrism
Approaching the centenary of its establishment as a formal discipline, International Relations today challenges the ahistorical and aspatial frameworks advanced by the theories of earlier luminaries. Yet, despite a burgeoning body of literature built on the transdisciplinary efforts bridging International Relations and its long-separated nomothetic relatives, the new and emerging conceptual frameworks have not been able to effectively overcome th…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics
Breaking the Eurocentric cage
John M. Hobson The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760-2010, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2012; 408 pp: 9781107020207, 60 [pounds sterling] (hbk) Robbie Shilliam (ed.) International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity, Routledge: London, UK, 2010; 272 pp: 9780415522847, 24.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk), 9780415577724, 85 [pounds ster…
Alter-Globalization
Geoffrey Pleyers Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age, with a foreword by Alain Touraine. Polity Press: London, 2010, 272 pp: 9780745646763 16.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk) The alternative globalisation movement has long lost its once impressive media exposure, and has seen many of its prominent Western actors fragment or even entirely vanish from the agenda of social movement politics in the past few years. Yet the movement has su…
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey
Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey's 'authoritarian turn' and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the 'economic' and the 'political' factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party's methods …
Authoritarian neoliberalism
This introduction to the special issue takes as its point of departure three centres of gravity that have shaped the study of neoliberalism but have also established barriers to further progress in these debates. By promoting an intersectional materialist research agenda which challenges extant ideational, modernist and empiricist tendencies in scholarship on neoliberalism, the essay contextualizes the special issue articles by outlining and clar…
Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago
Mass incarceration, police brutality, and border controls are part and parcel of the everyday experiences of marginalized and racialized communities across the world. Recent scholarship in international relations, sociology, and geography has examined the prevalence of these coercive practices through the prism of 'disciplinary,' 'penal,' or 'authoritarian' neoliberalism. In this collective discussion, we argue that although this literature has b…
Reproducing authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey
The implosion of popular struggles against the erosion of economic and democratic rights in the Middle East has thrown into sharp relief the co-constitutive character of neoliberal reforms and authoritarian state practices. This article zooms in on this relationship, and traces the consolidation of a core component of authoritarian statisms by examining how the ruling AKP government in Turkey has facilitated executive centralization. This process…
Deafening silence? Marxism, international historical sociology and the spectre of Eurocentrism
Approaching the centenary of its establishment as a formal discipline, International Relations today challenges the ahistorical and aspatial frameworks advanced by the theories of earlier luminaries. Yet, despite a burgeoning body of literature built on the transdisciplinary efforts bridging International Relations and its long-separated nomothetic relatives, the new and emerging conceptual frameworks have not been able to effectively overcome th…
The enduring relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital
The Shape of ‘Rising Powers’ to Come? The Antinomies of Growth and Neoliberal Development in Turkey
The short-term GDP growth-based economic success of the BRICS has spawned a trend of grouping large emerging market economies under shared monikers. The proliferation of a wide array of labels – from MINTs to VISTAs – within political and financial circles has been accompanied by a growing scholarly interest in the study of these ‘emerging markets’ and future ‘rising powers’. This paper discusses the literature on Turkey’s ‘rising power’ status t…
Neoliberalism and the Antagonisms of Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
This essay examines the evolving symbiosis of authoritarian state power and neoliberal governance in the Middle East in the wake of the 2007–8 economic crisis and popular uprisings in 2011–13. I revisit the debates on “authoritarian resilience” in the region to highlight that the efforts to push through neoliberal reforms in the face of popular opposition have expanded the scope of authoritarian rule. However, the strengthening of the executive p…
Introduction
This introduction to the ROAPE debate reasserts the centrality of revolutionary theory to understand the dynamics of social and political struggles in contemporary Middle East and North Africa. Framed around the conceptual and political interventions brought about by Brecht De Smet’s Gramsci on Tahrir (2016), we discuss the utility of Gramscian concepts in explaining the trajectories of social mobilisations in the peripheries of global capitalism
Passive revolutions and the dynamics of social change in the peripheries
Tansel’s contribution to the debate dissects the concept of passive revolution and highlights the significance of understanding passive revolutions as concrete historical episodes of mobilisation and state formation
Geopolitics, social forces, and the international
This article contributes to current debates in materialist geopolitics and contemporary IR theorising by restating the centrality of social forces for conceptualising geopolitics. It does so by offering a detailed conceptual reading of the corpus of the ‘Eastern Question’, which is composed of a series of political analyses written by Marx and Engels in the period of 1853–6. This archive presents unique analytical and conceptual insights beyond t…
Breaking the Eurocentric cage
John M. Hobson The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760-2010, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2012; 408 pp: 9781107020207, 60 [pounds sterling] (hbk) Robbie Shilliam (ed.) International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity, Routledge: London, UK, 2010; 272 pp: 9780415522847, 24.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk), 9780415577724, 85 [pounds ster…
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below
Confronting the coming five decades from our present conjuncture demands – to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci’s famous mantra – both critical pessimism and a wilful politics of hope. In this article, we engage with the politics of climate breakdown and the responses to wider socio-ecological crises with a necessary critical pessimism. Specifically, we confront the capture of green transition imperatives by finance capital, as well as the troubling ori…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics
Alter-Globalization
Geoffrey Pleyers Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age, with a foreword by Alain Touraine. Polity Press: London, 2010, 272 pp: 9780745646763 16.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk) The alternative globalisation movement has long lost its once impressive media exposure, and has seen many of its prominent Western actors fragment or even entirely vanish from the agenda of social movement politics in the past few years. Yet the movement has su…
Breaking the Eurocentric cage
John M. Hobson The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760-2010, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2012; 408 pp: 9781107020207, 60 [pounds sterling] (hbk) Robbie Shilliam (ed.) International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity, Routledge: London, UK, 2010; 272 pp: 9780415522847, 24.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk), 9780415577724, 85 [pounds ster…
The enduring relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital
Deafening silence? Marxism, international historical sociology and the spectre of Eurocentrism
Approaching the centenary of its establishment as a formal discipline, International Relations today challenges the ahistorical and aspatial frameworks advanced by the theories of earlier luminaries. Yet, despite a burgeoning body of literature built on the transdisciplinary efforts bridging International Relations and its long-separated nomothetic relatives, the new and emerging conceptual frameworks have not been able to effectively overcome th…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics
The Politics of Contemporary Capitalism in Turkey (and the Politics of its Interlocutors)
Debtfare states and the poverty industry
The crisis of 2007–2008 and the highly uneven and politically contentious economic ‘recovery’ that followed it have accentuated neoliberalism’s ability to mutate and adapt itself to new challenges
Geopolitics, social forces, and the international
This article contributes to current debates in materialist geopolitics and contemporary IR theorising by restating the centrality of social forces for conceptualising geopolitics. It does so by offering a detailed conceptual reading of the corpus of the ‘Eastern Question’, which is composed of a series of political analyses written by Marx and Engels in the period of 1853–6. This archive presents unique analytical and conceptual insights beyond t…
States of Discipline
Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and the widespread aversion towards austerity policies, neoliberalism remains the dominant mode of economic governance in the world. What makes neoliberalism such a resilient mode of economic and political governance? How does neoliberalism effectively reproduce itself in the face of popular opposition? States of Discipline offers an answer to these questions by highlighting the ways in which tod…
The making of neoliberal Turkey
The making of neoliberal Turkey
Despite the recurring criticisms of its analytical power and the perceived fuzziness of its parameters, neoliberalism remains a key concept in the toolkit of critical social sciences and the vast l
Passive revolutions and the dynamics of social change in the peripheries
Tansel’s contribution to the debate dissects the concept of passive revolution and highlights the significance of understanding passive revolutions as concrete historical episodes of mobilisation and state formation
Introduction
This introduction to the ROAPE debate reasserts the centrality of revolutionary theory to understand the dynamics of social and political struggles in contemporary Middle East and North Africa. Framed around the conceptual and political interventions brought about by Brecht De Smet’s Gramsci on Tahrir (2016), we discuss the utility of Gramscian concepts in explaining the trajectories of social mobilisations in the peripheries of global capitalism
Authoritarian neoliberalism
This introduction to the special issue takes as its point of departure three centres of gravity that have shaped the study of neoliberalism but have also established barriers to further progress in these debates. By promoting an intersectional materialist research agenda which challenges extant ideational, modernist and empiricist tendencies in scholarship on neoliberalism, the essay contextualizes the special issue articles by outlining and clar…
Reproducing authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey
The implosion of popular struggles against the erosion of economic and democratic rights in the Middle East has thrown into sharp relief the co-constitutive character of neoliberal reforms and authoritarian state practices. This article zooms in on this relationship, and traces the consolidation of a core component of authoritarian statisms by examining how the ruling AKP government in Turkey has facilitated executive centralization. This process…
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey
Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey's 'authoritarian turn' and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the 'economic' and the 'political' factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party's methods …
The Shape of ‘Rising Powers’ to Come? The Antinomies of Growth and Neoliberal Development in Turkey
The short-term GDP growth-based economic success of the BRICS has spawned a trend of grouping large emerging market economies under shared monikers. The proliferation of a wide array of labels – from MINTs to VISTAs – within political and financial circles has been accompanied by a growing scholarly interest in the study of these ‘emerging markets’ and future ‘rising powers’. This paper discusses the literature on Turkey’s ‘rising power’ status t…
Neoliberalism and the Antagonisms of Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
This essay examines the evolving symbiosis of authoritarian state power and neoliberal governance in the Middle East in the wake of the 2007–8 economic crisis and popular uprisings in 2011–13. I revisit the debates on “authoritarian resilience” in the region to highlight that the efforts to push through neoliberal reforms in the face of popular opposition have expanded the scope of authoritarian rule. However, the strengthening of the executive p…
Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Authoritarian neoliberalism
Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Historical materialism and international studies
This forum brings together critical engagements with Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton's Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis to assess the prospects and limits of historical materialism in International Studies. The authors' call for a 'necessarily historical materialist moment' in International Studies is interrogated by scholars working with historical materialist, feminist and decolonial frameworks in and beyond International Relat…
Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago
Mass incarceration, police brutality, and border controls are part and parcel of the everyday experiences of marginalized and racialized communities across the world. Recent scholarship in international relations, sociology, and geography has examined the prevalence of these coercive practices through the prism of 'disciplinary,' 'penal,' or 'authoritarian' neoliberalism. In this collective discussion, we argue that although this literature has b…
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below
Confronting the coming five decades from our present conjuncture demands – to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci’s famous mantra – both critical pessimism and a wilful politics of hope. In this article, we engage with the politics of climate breakdown and the responses to wider socio-ecological crises with a necessary critical pessimism. Specifically, we confront the capture of green transition imperatives by finance capital, as well as the troubling ori…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (10 works) · Economic system (9 works) · Authoritarianism (7 works) · Democracy (7 works)