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A woman, Sinem Kavak. Photo.

Sinem Kavak

Researcher

A woman, Sinem Kavak. Photo.

Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: : a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey

Author

  • Sinem Kavak

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)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Pages

695-716

Publication/Series

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volume

51

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0306-6150