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Making Authoritarian Populist States: Devaluation, Dispossession and Enrichment

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Making Authoritarian Populist States

Devaluation, Dispossession and Enrichment

Katharina Bodirsky

188 pages,

ISBN  978-1-80768-144-9 $120.00/£92.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2027)

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In the past decade, authoritarian populist regimes – which seek to hollow out liberal democratic institutions of the state based on a strategic Measure of popular consent and repression of the opposition – have seen tremendous political success around the globe in what seemed to be firmly established liberal democracies. This book examines an early instance of such contemporary authoritarian populisms: Turkey governed by the AK-Party. It focuses on the ways in which anti-terror politics was used to re-make the state and subdue the opposition and pays particular attention to how processes of (de)valuation and dispossession – in a capitalist sense as well as in terms of state structures of belonging and entitlement – were harnessed in this process. The book highlights multiple social antagonisms and the ways in which they work upon and through state institutions. It also examines the effects of these processes on oppositional people. In developing an anthropological conceptual approach for studying authoritarian populist states, it both provides an analytic lens for the contemporary conjuncture and more broadly for examining politics of state transformation. It contributes, among others, to anthropological discussions on (authoritarian) populism and illiberalism and to the anthropology of the state. The empirical focus is on the period from 2015 through 2019, which marks the high period of widespread anti-terror politics in Turkey, but which is embedded in the book within a longer political trajectory since the 1990s to today. The argument is based on a close observation of developments in Turkey since 2002 and repeated field research in Turkey between 2006 and 2024. It draws to a smaller Extent on research conducted in and on EU institutions in the late 2000s as well as on document analysis.

Subject: Anthropology (General)


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