The policing of social discontent and the construction of the social body: mapping the expansion and militerization of the police organization in Turkey in the post-1980 period
| dc.contributor | Ph.D. Program in Political Science and International Relations. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gambetti, Zeynep Ç. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Berksoy, Biriz Gonca. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T12:28:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T12:28:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The police organization in Turkey has gone through a major transformation process after the 1980 coup d’état. Within this period its personnel and budget were significantly enlarged, para-militaristic units were established, police powers were extended etc. The thesis examines the expansion and militarization of the police organization in Turkey in the post-1980 period. As the thesis puts forward, this process can neither be evaluated as a “modernization” move to advance the public “services”; nor as an isolated case caused by the particular “anti-democratic” methods of the state in Turkey. The grounds of this transformation, whose equivalents had been experienced previously in the bedrocks of neo-liberalism (United States and Britain), must be sought within the legacy of social relations in the country and in the path-dependent neoliberalization process, through which this legacy have been re-constructed since the beginning of 1980s. This is accomplished in the thesis by taking into account four clusters of social relations and their re-configuration since 1945, for it is claimed that they constitute the minimum core relations that comprise the capitalist state and their modifications leave a major impact upon its institutions, especially if it is a police organization. These are the relations constituting the accumulation regime, hegemonic discursive relations, relations between state institutions affecting the iv political regime and international relations leading to international norm/policy transfers. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | xv, 299 leaves; | |
| dc.identifier.other | POLS 2007 B47 PhD | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/17397 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Police -- Turkey -- History. | |
| dc.title | The policing of social discontent and the construction of the social body: mapping the expansion and militerization of the police organization in Turkey in the post-1980 period |
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