Burak Gürel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 113302 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Burak Gürel |
| PRENOMES | Burak |
| SOBRENOME | Gürel |
| ASSINATURA | GÜREL B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1666-8748 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Labor Unrest in Chinese-Invested Enterprises in Turkey
Labor cost is an important factor influencing the Chinese capital's global investment choices. Turkey relies on cheap labor to attract foreign direct investment; however, a potential rise in labor unrest could disrupt this pattern. Our study shows that struggles for unionization, higher wages, and new rights have predominated in labor conflicts in Chinese-invested enterprises in Turkey between 2010 and 2022, and these struggles were relatively su…
The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960-1980
Turkey's Community Development Program (CDP), implemented in the 1960s and 1970s, has remained a largely underexplored subject in the global history of rural community development schemes. Based on detailed archival research, this article shows that the programme's central goal was to mobilize the labour and financial resources of the villagers to carry out rapid infrastructure construction. Turkish policymakers hoped that such mobilization could…
Does violent conflict affect the distribution of social welfare? Evidence from India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
What are the contentious political dynamics of the largest workfare program in the world, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of India? Combining quantitative analysis with a close reading of government documents and a survey of the existing literature, we suggest that the Indian government's counter‐insurgency strategy against the Maoist unrest is a significant dynamic shaping the distribution of MGNREGA benefits…
The Collectivist Legacy and Agrarian Development in China since 1978
This article contributes to the study of the collectivist legacy in Chinese agriculture after 1978 by making five main arguments. First, it demonstrates that the construction of a robust agricultural infrastructure in the collective era enabled the government of the reform era to reduce its infrastructural spending without harming agricultural productivity in the 1980s. Second, village administrations were heavily involved in farm organization in…
Governing and Ruling
Chinese Investment in Turkey
Turkey’s inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2015 has raised the expectations of Turkish businesses and government concerning growth-generating investment from China. Existing studies on Chinese investments in Turkey lack sufficient data on the volume of investment, types of firms, and sectoral composition. Based on a novel dataset of Chinese investments in Turkey, this article contributes to filling this gap. We show that although Chine…
Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965-1980
This article contributes to the literature on rural politics in Turkey by investigating peasants' land occupations between 1965 and 1980. We show that agricultural modernization after 1945 created the structural conditions for land conflicts by enabling the reaching of the frontier of cultivable land and facilitating landlords' displacement of tenants. The 1961 Constitution's promise of land reform and the rise of the center-left and socialist po…
Counterrevolution
In the article entitled 'Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five countries,' published in Journal of Peasant Studies, Walden Bello (2018) comparatively analyzes
Project-Based State Intervention and Agrarian Change in Contemporary China
This article analyzes the role of the state in the development of capitalist agriculture in contemporary China by focusing on the implementation of the central-government-sponsored National Grain Security Project and Agricultural Industrialization Project in Pingwan county of Hunan province since 2009. It demonstrates that by providing significant (formal and informal) subsidies and transferring large tracts of farmland to large farmers and agrib…
Cihan Tuğal, Caring for the Poor
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The rural roots of the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
This paper puts forward four main arguments regarding the persistence of significant rural support of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey since late 2002. Firstly, since the previous coalition government implemented the harshest neoliberal measures in the agricultural sector, small farmers do not directly associate neoliberal assault with the AKP administration. Secondly, villagers have utilized both the b…
The role of collective mobilization in the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India (1950-2005)
This paper argues that the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India after 1950 was a product of the different capabilities of the Chinese and Indian governments to mobilize the labor force and financial resources of the rural population. By mobilizing unpaid labor and the financial resources of the villagers through mediation by the collectives (before 1984) and local administrations (from 1984 to the abolition of agricultu…
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu. How the West Came to Rule
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Peasants under siege
Agrarian Change and Labour Supply in Turkey, 1950-1980
Agrarian structures based on small peasant property can have two opposite kinds of impact on urban wages. In the first type, stable smallholder farming bringing high returns puts upward pressure on wages. In the second type, smallholder farming that does not bring sufficient returns leads to semi-proletarianization in which workers' access to rural sources of income functions as wage subsidy and puts downward pressure on wages. This paper argues …
The rural roots of the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
This paper puts forward four main arguments regarding the persistence of significant rural support of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey since late 2002. Firstly, since the previous coalition government implemented the harshest neoliberal measures in the agricultural sector, small farmers do not directly associate neoliberal assault with the AKP administration. Secondly, villagers have utilized both the b…
Agrarian Change and Labour Supply in Turkey, 1950-1980
Agrarian structures based on small peasant property can have two opposite kinds of impact on urban wages. In the first type, stable smallholder farming bringing high returns puts upward pressure on wages. In the second type, smallholder farming that does not bring sufficient returns leads to semi-proletarianization in which workers' access to rural sources of income functions as wage subsidy and puts downward pressure on wages. This paper argues …
Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965-1980
This article contributes to the literature on rural politics in Turkey by investigating peasants' land occupations between 1965 and 1980. We show that agricultural modernization after 1945 created the structural conditions for land conflicts by enabling the reaching of the frontier of cultivable land and facilitating landlords' displacement of tenants. The 1961 Constitution's promise of land reform and the rise of the center-left and socialist po…
The Collectivist Legacy and Agrarian Development in China since 1978
This article contributes to the study of the collectivist legacy in Chinese agriculture after 1978 by making five main arguments. First, it demonstrates that the construction of a robust agricultural infrastructure in the collective era enabled the government of the reform era to reduce its infrastructural spending without harming agricultural productivity in the 1980s. Second, village administrations were heavily involved in farm organization in…
Chinese Investment in Turkey
Turkey’s inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2015 has raised the expectations of Turkish businesses and government concerning growth-generating investment from China. Existing studies on Chinese investments in Turkey lack sufficient data on the volume of investment, types of firms, and sectoral composition. Based on a novel dataset of Chinese investments in Turkey, this article contributes to filling this gap. We show that although Chine…
Counterrevolution
In the article entitled 'Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five countries,' published in Journal of Peasant Studies, Walden Bello (2018) comparatively analyzes
The role of collective mobilization in the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India (1950-2005)
This paper argues that the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India after 1950 was a product of the different capabilities of the Chinese and Indian governments to mobilize the labor force and financial resources of the rural population. By mobilizing unpaid labor and the financial resources of the villagers through mediation by the collectives (before 1984) and local administrations (from 1984 to the abolition of agricultu…
Agrarian Change and Labour Supply in Turkey, 1950-1980
Agrarian structures based on small peasant property can have two opposite kinds of impact on urban wages. In the first type, stable smallholder farming bringing high returns puts upward pressure on wages. In the second type, smallholder farming that does not bring sufficient returns leads to semi-proletarianization in which workers' access to rural sources of income functions as wage subsidy and puts downward pressure on wages. This paper argues …
Peasants under siege
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu. How the West Came to Rule
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
Project-Based State Intervention and Agrarian Change in Contemporary China
This article analyzes the role of the state in the development of capitalist agriculture in contemporary China by focusing on the implementation of the central-government-sponsored National Grain Security Project and Agricultural Industrialization Project in Pingwan county of Hunan province since 2009. It demonstrates that by providing significant (formal and informal) subsidies and transferring large tracts of farmland to large farmers and agrib…
Cihan Tuğal, Caring for the Poor
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
The rural roots of the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
This paper puts forward four main arguments regarding the persistence of significant rural support of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey since late 2002. Firstly, since the previous coalition government implemented the harshest neoliberal measures in the agricultural sector, small farmers do not directly associate neoliberal assault with the AKP administration. Secondly, villagers have utilized both the b…
The role of collective mobilization in the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India (1950-2005)
This paper argues that the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India after 1950 was a product of the different capabilities of the Chinese and Indian governments to mobilize the labor force and financial resources of the rural population. By mobilizing unpaid labor and the financial resources of the villagers through mediation by the collectives (before 1984) and local administrations (from 1984 to the abolition of agricultu…
Counterrevolution
In the article entitled 'Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five countries,' published in Journal of Peasant Studies, Walden Bello (2018) comparatively analyzes
Chinese Investment in Turkey
Turkey’s inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2015 has raised the expectations of Turkish businesses and government concerning growth-generating investment from China. Existing studies on Chinese investments in Turkey lack sufficient data on the volume of investment, types of firms, and sectoral composition. Based on a novel dataset of Chinese investments in Turkey, this article contributes to filling this gap. We show that although Chine…
Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965-1980
This article contributes to the literature on rural politics in Turkey by investigating peasants' land occupations between 1965 and 1980. We show that agricultural modernization after 1945 created the structural conditions for land conflicts by enabling the reaching of the frontier of cultivable land and facilitating landlords' displacement of tenants. The 1961 Constitution's promise of land reform and the rise of the center-left and socialist po…
Does violent conflict affect the distribution of social welfare? Evidence from India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
What are the contentious political dynamics of the largest workfare program in the world, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of India? Combining quantitative analysis with a close reading of government documents and a survey of the existing literature, we suggest that the Indian government's counter‐insurgency strategy against the Maoist unrest is a significant dynamic shaping the distribution of MGNREGA benefits…
The Collectivist Legacy and Agrarian Development in China since 1978
This article contributes to the study of the collectivist legacy in Chinese agriculture after 1978 by making five main arguments. First, it demonstrates that the construction of a robust agricultural infrastructure in the collective era enabled the government of the reform era to reduce its infrastructural spending without harming agricultural productivity in the 1980s. Second, village administrations were heavily involved in farm organization in…
Governing and Ruling
Labor Unrest in Chinese-Invested Enterprises in Turkey
Labor cost is an important factor influencing the Chinese capital's global investment choices. Turkey relies on cheap labor to attract foreign direct investment; however, a potential rise in labor unrest could disrupt this pattern. Our study shows that struggles for unionization, higher wages, and new rights have predominated in labor conflicts in Chinese-invested enterprises in Turkey between 2010 and 2022, and these struggles were relatively su…
The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960-1980
Turkey's Community Development Program (CDP), implemented in the 1960s and 1970s, has remained a largely underexplored subject in the global history of rural community development schemes. Based on detailed archival research, this article shows that the programme's central goal was to mobilize the labour and financial resources of the villagers to carry out rapid infrastructure construction. Turkish policymakers hoped that such mobilization could…
Political science (12 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Government (linguistics (6 obras) · China (5 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Law (5 obras)