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Publication Metadata only Counterrevolution: the global rise of the far right(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020) Department of Sociology; Gürel, Burak; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 219277N/APublication Metadata only Human rights, humanitarianism, and state violence: medical documentation of torture in Turkey(Wiley, 2016) Department of Sociology; Can, Başak Bulut; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 219278State authorities invested in developing official expert discourses and practices to deny torture in post-1980 coup d''etat Turkey. Documentation of torture was therefore crucial for the incipient human rights movement there in the 1980s. Human rights physicians used their expertise not only to treat torture victims but also to document torture and eventually found the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) in 1990. Drawing on an ethnographic and archival research at the HRFT, this article examines the genealogy of anti-torture struggles in Turkey and argues that locally mediated intimacies and/or hostilities between victims of state violence, human rights physicians, and official forensics reveal the limitations of certain universal humanitarian and human rights principles. It also shows that locally mediated long-term humanitarian encounters around the question of political violence challenge forensic denial of violence and remake the legitimate levels of state violence.Publication Metadata only South Asian Refugees in India(Sage, 2018) Department of Sociology; Akçapar, Şebnem Köşer; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 221081N/APublication Metadata only The criminalization of physicians and the delegitimization of violence in Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Department of Sociology; Can, Başak Bulut; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 219278In June 2013, protests that erupted in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey were met with state violence, mobilizing hundreds of native physicians to deliver emergency medical care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in makeshift clinics during these protests, interviews with Gezi physicians and analyses of recent laws restricting emergency care provision, in this article I explore the criminalization of clinical practice through legal and coercive means of the government and the delegitimization of state violence through clinical and expert witnessing practices of physicians. As I show, material, legal, and discursive articulations of the idiom of medical neutrality revolve around the tension between medical praxis as neutrality and medical praxis as political participation. I offer a reconsideration of medical humanitarian and human rights regimes in terms of their consequences for inciting, documenting and restricting state violence.Publication Metadata only The role of collective mobilization in the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India (1950-2005)(Taylor & Francis, 2019) N/A; Department of Sociology; Gürel, Burak; Other; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 219277This paper argues that the divergent performance of the rural economies of China and India after 1950 was a product of the different capabilities of the Chinese and Indian governments to mobilize the labor force and financial resources of the rural population. By mobilizing unpaid labor and the financial resources of the villagers through mediation by the collectives (before 1984) and local administrations (from 1984 to the abolition of agricultural taxation and compulsory rural labor mobilization in 2006), the Chinese state developed rural infrastructure and the quality of the labor force at a pace and geographical scope that was far beyond its limited fiscal capacity. Efforts by the Indian state to establish rural organizations with similar mobilization capabilities failed due to the effective opposition of well-entrenched political and economic interests in the countryside. Unable to mobilize the labor and financial resources of the villagers, the Indian government relied primarily on its limited fiscal resources, which produced a much slower development of physical infrastructure and labor force quality. These are the primary reasons why China's rural economy developed much more rapidly than India's, which contributed significantly to the divergence of their national economies in the post-1950 era.Publication Open Access The rural roots of the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey(Taylor _ Francis, 2019) Department of Sociology; Gürel, Burak; Küçük, Bermal; Taş, Sercan; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 219277; N/A; N/AThis paper puts forward four main arguments regarding the persistence of significant rural support of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey since late 2002. Firstly, since the previous coalition government implemented the harshest neoliberal measures in the agricultural sector, small farmers do not directly associate neoliberal assault with the AKP administration. Secondly, villagers have utilized both the ballot box and direct action in order to bargain with the AKP. Thirdly, although the AKP government did not fundamentally depart from neoliberalism, the return of agricultural subsidies, significant expansion of social assistance, and rapid infrastructure construction have secured a large rural following for the party. Finally, the AKP government has effectively used coercive methods to prevent the emergence of an emancipatory political alternative.Publication Metadata only Trust and gender in a transnational market: the public culture of Laleli, İstanbul(Duke Univ Press, 2004) Department of Sociology; Yükseker, Hatice Deniz; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/A