Kurtuluş Gemici
Biographic Data
| ID | 304196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kurtuluş Gemici |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kurtuluş |
| FAMILY NAME | Gemici |
| SIGNATURE | GEMICI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9877-8475 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Game-world violation: The symbolic dimension of gamer activism in Shining Nikki
This study conceptualizes a form of gamer activism termed “game-world violation” by investigating the Shining Nikki players’ collective mobilization against a collaboration with an idol to perform the game’s anniversary song. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis of social media posts and interviews, we show how players’ attachment to the game’s protagonist and a sense of ownership over the co-created symbolic world of the game enabled coll…
The Place of the Market in Society
What is the place of the market in society? Polanyi's answer derives from institutional separation and the self-regulating mechanism of supply and demand. In this article, I offer an alternative approach. Following Aristotle, I suggest that commodity fiction follows from the fictitious nature of valuation in the market economy. I then combine this broader definition of commodity fiction with Aristotle's ideas on means and ends of human action, wh…
How ‘global’ are investment banks? An analysis of investment banking networks in Asian equity capital markets
This paper examines the distribution of power within financial networks of investment banks in equity capital markets of three key economies in Asia: Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Using social network analysis, it shows that while bulge-bracket banks occupy core positions in all three locations, their dominance is challenged by emerging Asian investment banks. The equity capital market networks of investment banks are strongly shaped by develop…
Against the Market: Local Communities and Polanyian Contention in India and Turkey
The widening reach of neoliberal reforms, global production chains, and market relations has been displacing the means of livelihood for many social groups around the world. In contrast to what the proponents of globalization contend, such displacements have jeopardized the livelihood of social groups that were sidelined by market-friendly reforms. A large body of scholarship suggests that such conditions are likely to generate popular protest ag…
Causal Case Study Methods: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching, and Tracing
Visualizing Hierarchical Social Networks
The authors propose a novel technique for the visualization of networks that contain a hierarchical structure: networks in which certain nodes and groups of nodes can be classified through a relation of precedence. Networks with a hierarchical structure frequently arise in sociology and various other disciplines, but the existing methods for visualizing such networks leave much to be desired. The method developed in this work builds on the tradit…
The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism
Globalization and Its Countermovement: Marxian Contention or Polanyian Resistance
This article surveys the scholarship on the countermovement against the diffusion of capitalism and market economy in the Global South. We identify two streams of analysis in the literature. On the one hand, scholars observe contentious politics instances where the spread of capitalist production relations enables the associational capacity and bargaining power of social classes. On the other hand, there are voluminous studies on contentious poli…
Beyond the Minsky and Polanyi Moments: Social Origins of the Foreclosure Crisis
The period of very high foreclosure rates sets the 2007-8 financial meltdown apart from similar banking crises fueled by asset price booms. Why did the 2007-8 meltdown lead to a prolonged foreclosure crisis? Through a theoretical perspective built on Minsky's financial instability hypothesis, Polanyi's ideas about adverse consequences of commodity fiction, financialization of homes, and institutional coupling, I argue that commodifying houses as …
The Neoclassical Origins of Polanyi's Self-Regulating Market
This article shows, through a detailed examination of Karl Polanyi's published works and unpublished writings, that Polanyi relies heavily on the neoclassical economics of his time in his conceptualization of the market in capitalist societies. This approach is instrumental to the thesis of The Great Transformation concerning the destructive impact of the market on society. However, such an analytical perspective neglects the social character of …
South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Era: Explaining Korea’s Developmental Decades
Moral Economy Redux: Social Protests in Turkey After the 2001 Economic Crisis
This article examines social protests following the collapse of an IMF-backed anti-inflation program in Turkey by people who lacked the associational bases to voice their political claims. Based on the pattern of protests following a similar economic crisis, one would expect protests by organized labor against the government. Yet it was largely shopkeepers and artisans who took to the streets in response to the 2001 crisis. I argue that the Turki…
Rushing toward currency convertibility
In 1989, Turkey became one of the first—and few—emerging economies to fully liberalize its capital account. Given the adverse macro-economic conditions before the reforms, it is puzzling that Turkish policy-makers implemented policies amounting to a comprehensive and imprudent capital account liberalization. Using in-depth interviews with a significant number of key decision-makers behind capital account liberalization and employing archival mate…
Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity
Uncertainty, the problem of order, and markets: A critique of Beckert, Theory and Society, May 2009
Karl Polanyi and the antinomies of embeddedness
While Polanyi argues that all economies are embedded and enmeshed in social relations and institutions, he tends to see market economy as disembedded, which reveals a tension in his thought. The main motivation for this paper is to understand the origins of this tension. On the basis of a systematic formulation of Polanyi's work, it is argued that Polanyi employs embeddedness in a dual manner: (a) as a methodological principle akin to methodologi…
Karl Polanyi and the antinomies of embeddedness
While Polanyi argues that all economies are embedded and enmeshed in social relations and institutions, he tends to see market economy as disembedded, which reveals a tension in his thought. The main motivation for this paper is to understand the origins of this tension. On the basis of a systematic formulation of Polanyi's work, it is argued that Polanyi employs embeddedness in a dual manner: (a) as a methodological principle akin to methodologi…
The Neoclassical Origins of Polanyi's Self-Regulating Market
This article shows, through a detailed examination of Karl Polanyi's published works and unpublished writings, that Polanyi relies heavily on the neoclassical economics of his time in his conceptualization of the market in capitalist societies. This approach is instrumental to the thesis of The Great Transformation concerning the destructive impact of the market on society. However, such an analytical perspective neglects the social character of …
Moral Economy Redux: Social Protests in Turkey After the 2001 Economic Crisis
This article examines social protests following the collapse of an IMF-backed anti-inflation program in Turkey by people who lacked the associational bases to voice their political claims. Based on the pattern of protests following a similar economic crisis, one would expect protests by organized labor against the government. Yet it was largely shopkeepers and artisans who took to the streets in response to the 2001 crisis. I argue that the Turki…
How ‘global’ are investment banks? An analysis of investment banking networks in Asian equity capital markets
This paper examines the distribution of power within financial networks of investment banks in equity capital markets of three key economies in Asia: Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Using social network analysis, it shows that while bulge-bracket banks occupy core positions in all three locations, their dominance is challenged by emerging Asian investment banks. The equity capital market networks of investment banks are strongly shaped by develop…
Beyond the Minsky and Polanyi Moments: Social Origins of the Foreclosure Crisis
The period of very high foreclosure rates sets the 2007-8 financial meltdown apart from similar banking crises fueled by asset price booms. Why did the 2007-8 meltdown lead to a prolonged foreclosure crisis? Through a theoretical perspective built on Minsky's financial instability hypothesis, Polanyi's ideas about adverse consequences of commodity fiction, financialization of homes, and institutional coupling, I argue that commodifying houses as …
Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity
Uncertainty, the problem of order, and markets: A critique of Beckert, Theory and Society, May 2009
Causal Case Study Methods: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching, and Tracing
Visualizing Hierarchical Social Networks
The authors propose a novel technique for the visualization of networks that contain a hierarchical structure: networks in which certain nodes and groups of nodes can be classified through a relation of precedence. Networks with a hierarchical structure frequently arise in sociology and various other disciplines, but the existing methods for visualizing such networks leave much to be desired. The method developed in this work builds on the tradit…
Rushing toward currency convertibility
In 1989, Turkey became one of the first—and few—emerging economies to fully liberalize its capital account. Given the adverse macro-economic conditions before the reforms, it is puzzling that Turkish policy-makers implemented policies amounting to a comprehensive and imprudent capital account liberalization. Using in-depth interviews with a significant number of key decision-makers behind capital account liberalization and employing archival mate…
Globalization and Its Countermovement: Marxian Contention or Polanyian Resistance
This article surveys the scholarship on the countermovement against the diffusion of capitalism and market economy in the Global South. We identify two streams of analysis in the literature. On the one hand, scholars observe contentious politics instances where the spread of capitalist production relations enables the associational capacity and bargaining power of social classes. On the other hand, there are voluminous studies on contentious poli…
The Place of the Market in Society
What is the place of the market in society? Polanyi's answer derives from institutional separation and the self-regulating mechanism of supply and demand. In this article, I offer an alternative approach. Following Aristotle, I suggest that commodity fiction follows from the fictitious nature of valuation in the market economy. I then combine this broader definition of commodity fiction with Aristotle's ideas on means and ends of human action, wh…
The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism
South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Era: Explaining Korea’s Developmental Decades
Karl Polanyi and the antinomies of embeddedness
While Polanyi argues that all economies are embedded and enmeshed in social relations and institutions, he tends to see market economy as disembedded, which reveals a tension in his thought. The main motivation for this paper is to understand the origins of this tension. On the basis of a systematic formulation of Polanyi's work, it is argued that Polanyi employs embeddedness in a dual manner: (a) as a methodological principle akin to methodologi…
Rushing toward currency convertibility
In 1989, Turkey became one of the first—and few—emerging economies to fully liberalize its capital account. Given the adverse macro-economic conditions before the reforms, it is puzzling that Turkish policy-makers implemented policies amounting to a comprehensive and imprudent capital account liberalization. Using in-depth interviews with a significant number of key decision-makers behind capital account liberalization and employing archival mate…
Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity
Uncertainty, the problem of order, and markets: A critique of Beckert, Theory and Society, May 2009
South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Era: Explaining Korea’s Developmental Decades
Moral Economy Redux: Social Protests in Turkey After the 2001 Economic Crisis
This article examines social protests following the collapse of an IMF-backed anti-inflation program in Turkey by people who lacked the associational bases to voice their political claims. Based on the pattern of protests following a similar economic crisis, one would expect protests by organized labor against the government. Yet it was largely shopkeepers and artisans who took to the streets in response to the 2001 crisis. I argue that the Turki…
The Neoclassical Origins of Polanyi's Self-Regulating Market
This article shows, through a detailed examination of Karl Polanyi's published works and unpublished writings, that Polanyi relies heavily on the neoclassical economics of his time in his conceptualization of the market in capitalist societies. This approach is instrumental to the thesis of The Great Transformation concerning the destructive impact of the market on society. However, such an analytical perspective neglects the social character of …
Globalization and Its Countermovement: Marxian Contention or Polanyian Resistance
This article surveys the scholarship on the countermovement against the diffusion of capitalism and market economy in the Global South. We identify two streams of analysis in the literature. On the one hand, scholars observe contentious politics instances where the spread of capitalist production relations enables the associational capacity and bargaining power of social classes. On the other hand, there are voluminous studies on contentious poli…
Beyond the Minsky and Polanyi Moments: Social Origins of the Foreclosure Crisis
The period of very high foreclosure rates sets the 2007-8 financial meltdown apart from similar banking crises fueled by asset price booms. Why did the 2007-8 meltdown lead to a prolonged foreclosure crisis? Through a theoretical perspective built on Minsky's financial instability hypothesis, Polanyi's ideas about adverse consequences of commodity fiction, financialization of homes, and institutional coupling, I argue that commodifying houses as …
The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism
Causal Case Study Methods: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching, and Tracing
Visualizing Hierarchical Social Networks
The authors propose a novel technique for the visualization of networks that contain a hierarchical structure: networks in which certain nodes and groups of nodes can be classified through a relation of precedence. Networks with a hierarchical structure frequently arise in sociology and various other disciplines, but the existing methods for visualizing such networks leave much to be desired. The method developed in this work builds on the tradit…
How ‘global’ are investment banks? An analysis of investment banking networks in Asian equity capital markets
This paper examines the distribution of power within financial networks of investment banks in equity capital markets of three key economies in Asia: Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Using social network analysis, it shows that while bulge-bracket banks occupy core positions in all three locations, their dominance is challenged by emerging Asian investment banks. The equity capital market networks of investment banks are strongly shaped by develop…
Against the Market: Local Communities and Polanyian Contention in India and Turkey
The widening reach of neoliberal reforms, global production chains, and market relations has been displacing the means of livelihood for many social groups around the world. In contrast to what the proponents of globalization contend, such displacements have jeopardized the livelihood of social groups that were sidelined by market-friendly reforms. A large body of scholarship suggests that such conditions are likely to generate popular protest ag…
The Place of the Market in Society
What is the place of the market in society? Polanyi's answer derives from institutional separation and the self-regulating mechanism of supply and demand. In this article, I offer an alternative approach. Following Aristotle, I suggest that commodity fiction follows from the fictitious nature of valuation in the market economy. I then combine this broader definition of commodity fiction with Aristotle's ideas on means and ends of human action, wh…
Game-world violation: The symbolic dimension of gamer activism in Shining Nikki
This study conceptualizes a form of gamer activism termed “game-world violation” by investigating the Shining Nikki players’ collective mobilization against a collaboration with an idol to perform the game’s anniversary song. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis of social media posts and interviews, we show how players’ attachment to the game’s protagonist and a sense of ownership over the co-created symbolic world of the game enabled coll…
Economics (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 works) · Neoclassical economics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)