article.page.titleprefix Dissident women’s organizations as a counter-hegemonic actor in Turkey
Date
2023-05-02
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Turkish Studies
Abstract
Could the Turkish women’s movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women’s movement’s deep-rooted history and its openness to combine theory with practice/action. When looked from the Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s perspective of radical democracy theory, the women’s movement appears to have a considerable potential of deciphering the existing hegemony and articulating the social demands which exclude and are excluded by the present-day hegemony in Turkey. This article tries to understand how women’s movement in Turkey conceptualizes the existing power relations that constitute the neoliberal religio-conservative hegemony and how it responds to it.
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Published by Turkish Studies; https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2023.2208270; Melisa Gündüz, Department of Political Science, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5196-944X; Funda Gençoğlu, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8211-8624.
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women’s movement, feminism, radical democracy, hegemony, counter hegemony
Citation
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/2020