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The AKP and the spirit of the ‘new’ Turkey
- A strong sense of victimhood, a discourse of social suffering, and complementary bodily performances, which mobilize rancor, resentfulness, and revengefulness, are fundamental elements of Turkish-Islamist ideology. This article discusses the political dynamics and implications of such assertions of victimhood in the Turkish context. To underscore these dynamics, it analyses the role of the logic of pain in the subject formation of Turkish-Islamist identity and how this logic has been revitalized by constitutive and hegemonic social imagination, and circulated and intensified by a reactionary mood. Additionally, it aims to expose how this reactionary mood profoundly depends on contradictory subjectification processes, which simultaneously involve mobilization of feelings of impotency, non-responsibility, self-pitying, and sublimation of power. This subject formation opens the way for identification with authoritarian figures in the Turkish case.
Author details: | Zafer YılmazORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2017.1314763 |
ISSN: | 1468-3849 |
ISSN: | 1743-9663 |
Title of parent work (English): | Turkish studies |
Subtitle (English): | imagined victim, reactionary mood, and resentful sovereign |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2017/04/14 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Release date: | 2022/09/12 |
Tag: | Justice and Development Party (AKP); Turkish-Islamist ideology; reactionary mood; resentment; victimhood |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 32 |
First page: | 482 |
Last Page: | 513 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Soziologie |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |