The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960-1980
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Burak Gürel (0000-0002-1666-8748, Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Humanities Koç University Sarıyer Istanbul Turkey, corresponding author), Kadir Selamet (0000-0003-1241-7746, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science University of Toronto Toronto Canada) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/joac.12604 |
| OpenAlex | W4401775397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
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 help achieve a high level of rural development far beyond what could be achieved by relying solely on government spending and might also allow the allocation of more resources to urban industrialization. Despite its initial promise, the CDP was unable to effectively mobilize the countryside due to a combination of structural, political, and bureaucratic challenges, including unequal land distribution, intense electoral competition, and inadequate administrative coordination. However, the CDP was not entirely inconsequential. It played a modest role in the commercialization and capitalist transformation of Turkish agriculture
Bureaucracy · Commercialization · Competition (biology · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Industrialisation · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Turkish · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Turkey's Politics and Society
Asian drama
State and class in Turkey
Chinese Aid and African Development
Global Development
Democracy, Development, and the Countryside
Red Revolution, Green Revolution
The village institutes experience in Turkey
The Missing Turkish Revolution
Poverty and Citizenship
Negotiating the price of the new state and republican modernization
Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965-1980
Postcolonial Developments
China and India
The Rise and Fall of Community Development in Developing Countries, 1950-65
The China Boom
Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East
Agrarian Change and Labour Supply in Turkey, 1950-1980
Dreams of Development in Mexico and Spain
Questions of Modernization
Lineages of the Developmentalist State
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |