Political theory and Gramsci

This forum arises from an online event on the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD). Following an introduction which proposes a ‘special affinity’ between UCD and International Relations (IR), four presenters at that event discuss their ‘view from outside’ UCD, including perspectives from Global Historical S…

• AYŞE ZARAKOL JAJICH

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• KAYA YILMAZ

Analysis of the Turkish state in the 20th century both draws upon and supports Gramsci's definition of the state as “dictatorship + hegemony. Both the form of the capitalist state and its activities rest upon the hegemony of the dominant class. The importance of society and class conflicts in understanding the capital…

Uluslararası sistemi derinden etkileyen kriz ve dönüşümler, teorik perspektiflerin yeni konjonktüre ait dinamikler karşısında kendilerini yenilemeleri için bir çağrı niteliği de taşımaktadır. Bu yönde atılabilecek ilk adımlardan biri, kuramların temel önermelerinin zihinsel evrim süreçleri dikkate alınarak gözden geçi…

This article departs from analyses that underline the middle-class character of June 2013 (Gezi Park) protests in Turkey by focusing on the relationship between politics and aesthetics in the protest movement. The predominant form of protest in the movement was aesthetic political acts, which did not bring about any d…

• ERDEN ATTİLA AYTEKİN

The post-war period in Turkey witnessed a rapid phase of urbanisation that widely shaped the social and political environment during the 1960s and the 1970s. In this period, which was marked by the extensive politicisation of the urban masses, urban problems entered into the realm of daily politics and urban politics…

• BÜLENT BATUMAN

The article discusses the predicament of contemporary critique by focusing on a theoretical case, the ‘sociology of critique’ as it is formulated by Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) and developed by Boltanski and Chiapello (2007) . This sociology is critical of critical theory and endeavours to supplement critical theory…

This article demonstrates that the authoritarian populist strategy is most appealing when leaders create a sense of crisis and present themselves as having the only solution. The article underlines three performative methods of how Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil offered simple answers for a crisis and portrayed other politi…

• ESRA AKGEMCİ

This study focuses on the relations between civil society and state in Turkey. It acknowledges that the interactions in civil society might lead to further democratization. However, it criticizes the ready identification of civil society as a counter-hegemonic force in the Turkish case from a Gramscian perspective. It…

The article aims to explain international relations and conflict resolution in combination with the neorealist and neo-Gramscian notions of the hegemony during the 1990s. In the first part, it focuses on neorealist hegemony theories. The Hegemonic Stability Theory (HST) is tested for viability as an explanatory tool o…

İdeoloji sosyal bilimlerde en tartışmalı kavramlardan birisidir. Bunun sebebiyse ideoloji kapsamındaki tanımların mevcut toplumsal koşullar göz önünde bulundurularak bir önceki çalışmaların kritiğinin yapılmasıyla şekillenmiş olmasıdır. İdeoloji bağlamında iletişim çalışmalarının sorunsalı, bireylerin dünyayı nasıl yo…

Literatürde, Sanayi Devrimi ile birlikte gündeme gelen kapitalist toplumun ardından üretim sürecinde bilginin ana unsur kabul edildiği enformasyon toplumuna geçiş yapıldığı belirtilmektedir. Enformasyon toplumunun ardından gündeme gelen süper akıllı toplum, en basit ve net ifadelerle, dijitalleşme ve yapay zekâ ile en…

• BERKAY İREZ