Workshop on Politics & Society - I

You are cordially invited to International Relations Department's first Workshop on Politics and Society entitled "Institutions and Subjects of Neoliberalism: The Case of "Competition" in Turkey?" by Dr. Z. Umut Turem of Bogazici University.

The event is scheduled to take place on October 9th, 2015, Friday from13:30 to15:00 in room FEAS 345. You can find the abstarct of the workshop below. 

For further information about the event, please contact Mr. Ufuk Turkkan from ufuk.turkkan@ozyegin.edu.tr.


"Institutions and Subjects of Neoliberalism: The Case of "Competition" in Turkey"

In this talk I analyze "competition" as a site, which can shed light on the two levels that neoliberalism operates and shapes. Tracing the parallel stories of the institutionalization of competition laws in Turkey and the cultivation of competition as a novel individual ethic, I offer a broad mapping of Turkish neoliberalism by focusing on the connections between the individual (subjectivity) and macro political (institution building) levels. Such bridging, I argue, is necessary for an accurate understanding of neoliberalism, in Turkey and elsewhere.