Social policy and conflict: the Gezi Park–Taksim demonstrations and uses of social policy for reimagining Turkey

Hakan Seckinelgin

Third World Quarterly, 2016, vol. 37, issue 2, 264-280

Abstract: This article argues that conflicts are productive forces within which new ideas are developed and new social relations are articulated. The critical issue here is the way in which such conflicts are managed and mediated. The paper analyses the Gezi Events of May–June 2013 in Istanbul and considers the way in which people’s reactions in these events are linked with the intersection of everyday lives and the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi – AKP) government’s social policy initiatives, which are increasingly framing these everyday lives. Social policy is considered to be the domain of this intersection, as the government uses policies to inform a particular way of orienting individuals’ everyday context.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1089164

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