Browsing by Subject "Social conflict"

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Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles
(Routledge, 2021-10-22) Şahin, Selver B.
This paper uses the ‘social conflict' theory to analyse the challenges to combatting violence against women in Turkey. It argues that these obstacles that are grounded in unequal social power relations are structured in the political landscape where decisions over who gets what are made. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)'s ‘male biased' political decisions such as withdrawing Turkey from the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) reflect the current conditions of the balance of societal interests in the political order. Turkish women’s struggle for equality requires a shift in existing conditions of power in favour of pro-gender equality forces that would enable the representation of their preferences and interests in the political landscape, which is always tilted towards certain groups and their interests.
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Crisis in Black and White by Charles E. Silberman
(1964) Shachtman, Max
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Democratisation and social conflict in timor leste: a not so great transformation
(Routledge, 2022-10-11) Verkhovets, Stepan; Şahin, Selver
The idea of democratic state-building constituted the basis of the peace promotion engagement of the United Nations and other international agencies in Timor-Leste. Yet, this process of internationally assisted socio-political reconstruction has produced mixed results in terms of achieving a liberal democratic transformation. In accounting for these outcomes, the existing scholarship highlights the ways in which the intensifying power struggles between different competing social groups gave rise to a socio-political order where clientelist, neo-patrimonial governance structures and practices co-exist with those of the Western Weberian state. This article draws on social conflict theory to examine the underlying political economy dynamics of these governance outcomes. It concludes that the process of socio-political ordering experienced in Timor-Leste is not a deviation from the liberal democratic blueprint. It rather results from it, reflects the balance of power between competing groups in society, and develops in such a way that serves the interests of particular social forces while marginalising others. Following from this premise, the article emphasises the point that the analysis of the political environment in Timor-Leste should consider the state-society complex rather than focusing on the quality of state institutions misguidedly insulated from societal interest and influence.
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Putunu kendi yapar
(1984) Anday, Melih Cevdet
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Şiddet, özel yaşam
(1995) Oktay, Ahmet
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Why the rigidity? Understanding the Lebanese state’s policies towards Palestinian refugees: a social conflict theory perspective
(2024-07) Eke, Öykü
Palestinians represent one of the largest refugee populations, dispersed across the world to seek safety and protection. Lebanon diverges from other host countries in its policies applied towards the population. The notably rigid and discriminatory refugee governance policy developed and implemented by the Lebanese state is closely connected to the country’s complex socio-political dynamics. This thesis aims to uncover the key factors influencing these policies by employing a social conflict theory approach. Accordingly, this thesis argues that the policy preferences of the Lebanese state towards Palestinian refugees are deeply rooted in the material conditions of social power relations in the country. By employing process-tracing methodology, the results demonstrate that the historical struggles among the competing social forces in Lebanon significantly influence the state’s formulation of strategies and policies concerning Palestinians.