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Ms Ozge Yaka
Thesis Working Title
EU Membership as a Hegemonic Project in Turkey
Research Interests
I analyse the mobilization of support around Turkey's EU membership, which has become a central theme of social and political life from1999 onwards. My approach draws on Gramsci's account of hegemony and uses institutional analysis, discourse analysis, and contemporary historical data. It interprets EU membership as a central element in the attempt to consolidate economic and political stability in Turkey and to promote social cohesion. More specifically, I examine this process as a hegemonic project (a concrete programme that seeks to unify Turkish elites and different social sectors behind a national project whose success requires changes in many fields). A key role here is played by TUSIAD (a general purpose business association analogous to the European Round Table) and I am especially interested in how it exercises intellectual, political, and moral leadership. But I also relate this to the changing configuration of social forces and struggles in Turkey since 1999.
Supervisor: Prof. Bob Jessop
Other Interests and Hobbies
State Theory, Political Economy, Theory of Hegemony and Ideology, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Theory, Turkish Political History
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