Global Dialogue, Magazine of International Sociology Association

Women Caught in Turkey’s Ideological Clashes

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Women’s bodies have been at the center of various political debates throughout Turkey’s history as they have been in many other countries. In this paper, I will try to deal with different instances of how women’s bodies have become a canvas for different political conflicts. At the beginning of the twentieth century, in Turkey’s early republican construction period, the regime defined the “new woman” of the Republic. The social status of women and their bodily practices (for example, the choice of clothing, sports, and exercise) were brought together...

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The Pandemic and “Digital Immigrants” in Turkey

by N. Beril Özer Tekin

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Turkey was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as much as the rest of the world, causing severe economic and social impacts on various social segments. In particular, the elderly (individuals 65 years and above), who are categorized as a disadvantaged group, were affected by this process differently compared to other social segments. As the impact of the pandemic increased, “ageism” also increased in line with the climate of fear, as Butler (1969) has pointed out. Ageism is defined as discriminating against people based on their age. Although the term has a similarity with racism ...

Which Paths from Hyper-Globalization to Sustainable Cooperation?

by Hans-Jürgen Urban

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The social and ecological distortions of capitalist “hyper-globalization” (Dani Rodrik) have been the subject of much global sociological research, in particular, research on the mode of capitalist production, which generates different working conditions along its global supply and value chains. These chains are usually dominated by transnational corporations that have their headquarters in the states of the capitalist North and their supplier companies in the Global South. Asymmetries in global supply chains Global research has also shown massive...

Nature Comes Back: UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte

by Max Aulenbacher

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The Völklinger Hütte https://voelklinger-huette.org/en/ is the only fully intact ironworks of the industrial era and UNESCO World Heritage Site, showing this place of production as well as how nature comes back. ...

Why Look Up? Karl Polanyi on Right-Wing “Populism”

by Sang Hun Lim

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The recent rise of radical right-wing politics is often interpreted as a populist social protection movement by those left behind by neoliberal globalization. Social critics criticize progressive politicians and intellectuals who have accepted the market economy in the name of “the third way,” and who have instead focused on identity politics, such as gender and ethnicity, while ignoring social and economic class inequalities. As a solution, they suggest promoting “left-wing populism” as a way to reorient the lower-middle and working classes from radical right-wing rhetoric...

Learning from the Stories of Homicide Perpetrators

by Martín Hernán Di Marco

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Homicides have been addressed by a wide range of fields, from social sciences and psychology to law, literature, and cinema. The fascination with violence, as Oriana Binik says, is illustrated by the array of academic and lay theories that raise questions about how we think about this topic. However, demonizing, mythologizing, medicalizing or starting from the premise that the perpetrators’ actions are irrational has undermined the possibility to fully comprehend the social processes behind it. A central paradox in this topic is that homicide offenders’ stories and biographies...

Delivery Work via Digital Platforms in Brazil

by Bruna da Penha, Ana Beatriz Bueno

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Drawing on primary empirical data and sociological reflection, we investigate the impact of the pandemic on the working conditions of delivery workers in Brazil. We also seek to analyze whether this impact can influence workers’ subjective understanding of inequality. We start from the hypothesis that the health crisis has not created such inequality (internal to capitalism), but aggravated it. That is, it has potentialized the degradation of working conditions, focusing on working hours, payment and risks, and deepening the contradictions of the labor-capital conflict. In our empirical...

The Sociology of Environmentalism in Turkey

by Özkan Öztürk

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The course and forms of environmentalism in Turkey have progressed in parallel with the social transformation of the country as well as with its politics. With the transformation of environmentalism, it is possible to follow the struggles for the development of civil society, the ideological forms of neoliberalism, and the social divisions created by class differentiation, in addition to political debates. Although the history of social reactions to environmental problems in Turkey can be traced back to the end of the 1970s, the emergence of an organized environmentalism was only possible...

COVID-19 and Middle-Class Consumption in Turkey

by Dicle Koylan

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The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed societies, institutions, and everyday life in a sudden and very rapid manner. One after another, restrictions on social life by governments around the world have made the concepts of social distance and social isolation a part of everyday life. Life has been rearranged in all areas where we come together socially, from doing business to leisure activities, and this has entailed a change in routines, lifestyles, and consumption habits. This sudden shift has been witnessed especially among middle-class white-collar workers who, prior to the pandemic ...

Gender In/Equality and Feminism in Turkey

by Aslı Telseren

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As a social construct, gender refers to the cultural, social, political, and economic distinction between social roles, which changes across time and space. Constructed through social institutions according to the socio-economic, cultural, and political needs of societies, gender regimes determine gender inequalities and hierarchies within socio-economic and political structures. Therefore, inequalities are neither natural nor biologically given but, instead, are socially constructed. As one of the fundamental human rights, gender equality refers to an equal chance of access to public ...

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