Agrarian Change, Industrialization and Geopolitics: Beyond the Turkish Sonderweg

Eren Duzgun

doi:10.1017/S0003975617000194

Agrarian Change, Industrialization and Geopolitics: Beyond the Turkish Sonderweg

Eren Duzgun

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Abstract

This article takes issue with the common view that the early Turkish Republic (1920-1940) followed a "special" route to modernity characterized by "state capitalism". It argues that such a view, rooted in the Sonderweg paradigm, obscures the historical-comparative specificity of Turkish state formation, leading to problematic conclusions about the character of Turkish modernization. Based on insights derived from Karl Polanyi's notion of "economistic fallacy" and Political Marxism's conception of capitalism, I offer a new interpretation of the early Republican project in Turkey, which, in turn, provides a deeper understanding of the social content, tempo and multi-linearity of world historical development.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	405-439
Number of pages	35
Journal	Archives Europeennes de Sociologie
Volume	58
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975617000194
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Capitalism
Geopolitics
Kemalism
Late Development
Modernity
State-formation
Turkey

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Sociology and Political Science

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