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Is Development the Continuation of ‘Anti-politics’ by Other Means? An Investigation Based on the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey
Forum for Development Studies Pub Date : 2019-03-18 , DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2019.1593239
Arda Bilgen 1
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Abstract In simplest terms, depoliticization refers to a systemic condition that inscribes the whole of society or to a distinct governing strategy for disguising the political nature of policy process. Understood as a condition, a strategy, or both, the concept has been employed to examine a wide array of policy issues until recently. Especially in development studies, the concept has been increasingly utilized to examine the rationale, mechanisms, and ramifications of development projects that were carried out in different parts of the world. Except a few examples, however, the depoliticizing implications of development schemes in Turkey have not received adequate scholarly attention. This article investigates Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia Project (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, GAP) in the conceptual guidance of depoliticization approach. The article explores how a neoliberal agenda has trivialized political issues such as those concerning distribution, resource use, inequality, inclusion, or conflict in southeastern Turkey. It critically assesses how the dominance of experts, the subscription to the ‘homo oeconomicus’ model, and the developmentalization of security policy have operated as means of depoliticization within the project. In this way, it provides a new perspective regarding how policymakers and project authorities attempt to ‘economize’ or ‘technicize’ the political in project frameworks and sites.

中文翻译:

发展是以其他方式继续“反政治”吗?基于土耳其东南安纳托利亚项目(GAP)的调查

摘要用最简单的术语来说,去政治化是指一种刻写整个社会的系统性条件,或者是一种用以掩饰政策过程的政治性质的独特的统治策略。直到最近,该概念已被理解为一种条件,一种策略或两者兼有,被用来研究各种政策问题。特别是在发展研究中,该概念已被越来越多地用于检查在世界各地进行的发展项目的原理,机制和后果。但是,除少数例子外,土耳其发展计划的去政治化意义并未引起学术界的足够重视。本文在去政治化方法的概念指导下研究了土耳其的东南安纳托利亚项目(GüneydoğuAnadolu Projesi,GAP)。本文探讨了新自由主义议程如何平息了政治问题,例如与土耳其东南部的分配,资源使用,不平等,包容或冲突有关的问题。它批判性地评估了专家的统治地位,对“同质经济”模式的认可以及安全政策的发展如何作为项目内非政治化的手段。通过这种方式,它为政策制定者和项目主管机构如何试图“经济化”或“技术化”项目框架和地点中的政治提供了新的视角。订阅“ homo oeconomicus”模型以及安全策略的发展已成为项目内非政治化的手段。通过这种方式,它为政策制定者和项目主管机构如何试图“经济化”或“技术化”项目框架和地点中的政治提供了新的视角。订阅“ homo oeconomicus”模型以及安全策略的发展已成为项目内非政治化的手段。通过这种方式,它为政策制定者和项目主管机构如何试图“经济化”或“技术化”项目框架和地点中的政治提供了新的视角。
更新日期:2019-03-18
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