Contested Reproduction of Turkey's Financialized Capitalism: State and Society in Crisis

On June 11-12, 2020, the GLRC hosted Contested Reproduction of Turkey's Financialized Capitalism: State and Society in Crisis, a two-day virtual workshop co-organized by Dr. Pınar Bedirhanoğlu (Visiting Professor, Department of Politics, York University; Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University) and Dr. Luann Good Gingrich (Director, Global Labour Research Centre, York University).
We were happy to move the workshop to a virtual platform after the in-person event was cancelled due to COVID-19. For more information on the workshop, please see the attached poster and program below. Please note participation of this event was by invitation only.
Attendees who are interested in continuing the discussion of Turkey's financialized capitalism can contact panelists and discussants below.
Pınar Bedirhanoğlu: pinarb@yorku.ca
Angela Joya: angelajoya@yahoo.ca
Coşku Çelik: cosku.86@gmail.com
Hilal Kara: hilal.kara@queensu.ca
Özlem Çelik: ozlemcelik.mail@gmail.com
Ali Rıza Güngen: aliriza.gungen@gmail.com
Ömer Özcan: oozcan@yorku.ca
Özgün Topak: ozgunt@yorku.ca
Çağlar Dölek: caglardolek@gmail.com
Funda Hülagü: fundahulagu@gmail.com

WORKSHOP PROGRAM
THURSDAYJUNE11,2020
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS (1:30- 2:00pm)
SOCIAL CRISIS AND POLITICS OF LABOUR (2:00 - 4:30 pm)
Chair:PınarBedirhanoğlu (York University-METU)
Discussant: Angela Joya (Carleton University)                                  
Formation of the 'classes of labour' in Turkey under neoliberalism and changing forms of rural class struggle
CoşkuÇelik (York University)
Social reproduction in crisis: Limits to reproducing labour power inneoliberalizingTurkey
HilalKara (Queens University)
The AKP's income-differentiated housing strategies under the pressure of resistance and debt
ÖzlemÇelik (Helsinki University)
Responses to the 2018-19 economic crisis in AKP's Turkey: Policy space and discipline by state-sponsored credit
Ali RızaGüngen (CHR/Carnegie Mellon University) 

FRIDAY JUNE 12, 2020
STATE CRISIS AND POLITICS OF COERCION (1:30- 4:00 pm)
Chair:CoşkuÇelik (York University)
Discussant: ÖmerÖzcan (York University)
Social constitution of the AKP's strong state through financialization: state in crisis, or crisis state?
PınarBedirhanoğlu (York University-METU) 
Turkey's authoritarian surveillance regime
ÖzgünTopak (York University)
'The law of the city?': Social war, urban warfare, and dispossession on themargin
ÇağlarDölek (Carleton University)
Policing the crisis in Turkey: The case offeminicides
FundaHülagü (Phillips University of Marburg)
CLOSING REMARKS (4:00-4:30 pm)