Sinem Kavak
Researcher
Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: : a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey
Author
Summary, in English
This article explores the complexities of agency in contemporary territory-based mobilisations in the countryside by focusing on water struggles in Turkey. Using a historical-spatial approach, it combines agrarian political economy analysis with human-nature interactions. Through an analysis of cash crop production and urban-rural interactions, this contribution argues that capitalist agrarian transformation in Turkey led to the emergence of an ‘urban middle class with peasant characteristics’, with a strong capacity for mobilisation and alliance-building. It also argues that this group enabled abstraction, place-framing and aestheticised resistance, common elements we observe in contemporary territorial mobilisations.
Department/s
- Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Publishing year
2023
Language
English
Publication/Series
Journal of Peasant Studies
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Frank Cass Publishers
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Status
Epub
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0306-6150