Browsing by Author "Donmez, Pinar E."

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    Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey
    (Sage, 2020-05-06) Donmez, Pinar E.
    This paper aims to explore the growing and deepening trend of politics of repression coupled with prolonged crisis and austerity politics, reflecting on the potentials as well as limitations of progressive politics in such a constrained context. Austerity policies continue pushing for anti-labour and reactionary politics in a variety of forms reflecting the unresolved crisis conditions of contemporary capitalism. While the liberal democratic state-form remains relatively intact in particular contexts, in others, it gradually evolves into repressive forms. The growing repression risks conceiving the anti-authoritarian struggles and the anti-capitalist and labour movements separate and/or mutually exclusive. This review article draws on the recent insights of (de)politicization, labour geography and history and political economy scholarships with specific reference to the case of Turkey while cautioning against the binary thinking of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ in leftist and labour mobilisations. It proposes a historical perspective in order to appreciate the diversity and multiplicity of struggles against the intersecting nodes of austerity, capitalism and repression in the complex geographies of periphery.
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    Authoritarian and neoliberal attacks on higher education in Hungary
    (Radical Philosophy, 2021-07) Cantat, Celine; Donmez, Pinar E.
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    The COVID-19 Pandemic, Academia, Gender, and Beyond: A Review
    (MDPI, 2022-09-05) Donmez, Pinar E.
    This article aims to engage critically with the scholarly narratives and the emerging literature on the gender impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in academia. It outlines the key contours and themes in these scholarly discourses and conceptions, acknowledging their richness, depth and strengths especially given the short timespan within which they have developed since 2020. The article then suggests broadening and historicising the critique advanced by the literature further. In doing so, the hierarchies and vulnerabilities exposed in the academic domain by the pandemic are positioned within a holistic understanding of crisis-ridden characteristics of social relations under capitalism.
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    Crises of Authoritarian Financialization: Monetary Policy in Hungary and Türkiye in the Polycrisis
    (Routledge, 2023-08-25) Karas, David; Donmez, Pinar E.
    We identify in this chapter the contradictory objectives of monetary policy under an authoritarian mode of financialization (AF) in Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) where the executive branch intervenes directly in monetary policy, banking supervision and retail banking. We interpret AF as a statist-authoritarian attempt to manage the vulnerabilities of growth strategies under subordinate financialization: following Marxist theories of the state, we argue that instead of providing political-economic stabilization, statist authoritarianism merely internalizes class conflicts within the state apparatus spurring accumulation and legitimation dilemmas for the state. We illustrate two divergent crisis trajectories of AF in Hungary and Türkiye in the 2020–22 period by showing how executive centralization fails to solve the increasingly contradictory objectives of stabilizing sovereign and private debt markets. Instead, we observe enhanced incoherence in monetary policy and a diminishing capacity of AF regimes to shore up rentier social contracts. Although both cases face accumulation and legitimation dilemmas in 2022, we explain the consolidation of inflationary and disinflationary monetary policies with differences in debt profiles, social blocs, and external financing conditions.
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    Disciplining Speech, Violating Rights: Recurrent and Shifting Patterns in the Context of Turkey
    (University of Warwick, 2022-12-09) Donmez, Pinar E.
    The article proposes a historical account of the evolution of struggles and debates surrounding freedom of speech in the context of Turkey. The main argument is that violations of freedom of speech cannot be assessed in a manner isolated from the comprehensive remakings of politics, economy and society in the country that configure and reconfigure the contours of ‘(un)acceptability’ and ‘(un)desirability’ of speech in historically specific ways. Therefore, the article challenges mainstream approaches that treat freedom of speech within the allegedly autonomous, abstract and individualised domain of intellect divorced from its material context and situates it within the deep-seated societal transformations that both influence and are influenced by continuously contested governing strategies. After outlining key terms of the debate, the second section provides a historical overview of the evolution of controversies in this field before Justice and Development Party or Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP) rule. The final section focuses on the specific evolution of the AKP-era governing strategy in its continuities and ruptures from the historically prevalent freedom of speech issues in three domains: labour rights, cultural and political rights, and gender and sexuality.
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    Marketisation of Academia and Authoritarian Governments: The Cases of Hungary and Turkey in Critical Perspective
    (Sage, 2020-12-23) Donmez, Pinar E.; Duman, Anil
    This article analyses the recent political repression of academia in Hungary and Turkey within the critical scholarship on globalisation and neoliberalisation of higher education. We introduce and challenge the hegemonic definitions of academic freedom that sit comfortably with the capitalist logic as well as repressive governing forms and assess the recent attacks on university communities with emphasis on both academic labour and freedom. Adopting a case study approach, we investigate how economic and political forms of repression accompany and reinforce one another within the specificities of both country contexts. We delineate the underlying structural and historical dynamics as well as emergence and evolution of methods of struggle and resistance employed by diverse university communities in their shared and divergent characteristics. Our conclusions include critical reflections on the broader implications of higher education restructuring, authoritarian interventions, and the future of systemic-level resistance.