Abstract
Many scholars associated the recent transformation of Turkish democracy with the rise of a new bourgeois class and the neoliberal restructuring of the world economy. Using a social property relations approach, I provide a critique of the readings of Turkish modernity based on the fall and the rise of bourgeois agency. Revealing the non-capitalist origins and the protracted capitalist transformation of Ottoman and Turkish modernization, I conclude that the reformulation of the main pillars of Turkish modernity today is an expression of the recent consolidation of capitalist property relations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 889-909 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Critical Sociology |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Ottoman Empire
- Turkey
- bourgeoisie
- capitalism
- democracy
- historical sociology
- modernity
- political economy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science