Globalization, civil society and citizenship in Turkey: actors, boundaries and discourses

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dc.citation.epage234en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage219en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber7en_US
dc.contributor.authorKeyman, E. F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorIcduygu, A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T10:30:00Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T10:30:00Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, civil society has become one of the most important concerns of academic and public discourse. It would not be a mistake to propose that today there is a strong, effective and even over-glorified talk about and a global agenda for civil society and its role in the process of creating a better and humane world. In this talk and agenda the main intention is to reinvigorate and strengthen civil society politically, organizationally and normatively as a counter- hegemonic and resistance movement against the state-centric world. This paper argues that Turkey does not constitute an exception in this context. Rather, it provides an illuminating case-study in which the crisis of the state-centric modernity has given rise to the elevation of civil society to the status of being an exteremely important actor and arena for the democratization of the state-society relations. However, on the basis of the three-year-long research (1999-2002) we have done on 'the impacts of globalization on Turkey', the paper also argues that the role of civil society in the process of democratization should be considered a necessary but not a sufficient condition, insofar as it contains both democratic and essentialist discourses about citizenship and identity. In order to substantiale these arguments, the paper will first outline the internal and external factors that have paved the way to the emergence and the increasing importance of civil society in Turkey, and then will shift its attention to the question of 'the use and the abuse of civil society'. In seeking a proper answer to this question, the paper will focus on the discourses and strategies of different civil society organizations about state, society, citizenship and identity in Turkey.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1362102032000065982en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1469-3593
dc.identifier.issn1362-1025
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/24478
dc.language.isoEnglish (United States)en_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1362102032000065982en_US
dc.source.titleCitizenship Studiesen_US
dc.subjectCitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectCivil societyen_US
dc.subjectDemocratizationen_US
dc.subjectGlobalizationen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleGlobalization, civil society and citizenship in Turkey: actors, boundaries and discoursesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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