Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey

Name: Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey
Author: Arslanalp, M., Erkmen, Tülay Deniz

İsim	Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey
Yazar	Arslanalp, M., Erkmen, Tülay Deniz
Basım Tarihi:	2023
Basım Yeri	- Taylor & Francis
Konu	Autocratization, Competitive authoritarianism, Protest repression, Raison d’état, Space, Spatial governmentality, Turkey
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	2162-2671
Kayıt Numarası	e0e0356d-9288-4026-9b1f-225ea73ef32f
Lokasyon	International Relations
Tarih	2023
Notlar	Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Research Fund ; Seren Selvin Korkmaz and Özlem Tunçel ; Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik ; Özyeğin University
Örnek Metin	Between 2007 and 2019 the Turkish regime used protest bans extensively in order to impede collective mobilization. In this paper, drawing on Michel Foucault’s discussion of raisond’état and an original dataset of protest bans, we examine these legal practices as part of the state’s repertoire of protest repression. We point to two limits against the indefinite extension of state regulation that Foucault identifies: an external limit posed by public law and regime of rights, and an internal limit that questions the effectiveness of ‘too much’ government. We argue that authorities use spatial control as a technology to negotiate these two limits. Specifically, authorities deploy the state’s prerogative of regulating public space as a ‘politically neutral’ legal technology to reconcile the banning of protests with the external limit posed by freedom of assembly. Spatial control also works as an effective form of government to negotiate the internal limits of raisond’état. We use illustrative examples to unpack the mechanisms of how spatial technologies neutralize protests to bolster an authoritarian regime. The study contributes to empirical research on protest repression as well as theoretical discussions on the rationalities of government by expanding the geographical scope of existing research to an autocratizing context.
DOI	10.1080/21622671.2022.2033640
Cilt	11

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Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey

Yazar Arslanalp, M., Erkmen, Tülay Deniz

Basım Tarihi 2023

Basım Yeri - Taylor & Francis

Konu Autocratization, Competitive authoritarianism, Protest repression, Raison d’état, Space, Spatial governmentality, Turkey

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 2162-2671

Kayıt Numarası e0e0356d-9288-4026-9b1f-225ea73ef32f

Lokasyon International Relations

Tarih 2023

Notlar Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Research Fund ; Seren Selvin Korkmaz and Özlem Tunçel ; Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik ; Özyeğin University

Örnek Metin Between 2007 and 2019 the Turkish regime used protest bans extensively in order to impede collective mobilization. In this paper, drawing on Michel Foucault’s discussion of raisond’état and an original dataset of protest bans, we examine these legal practices as part of the state’s repertoire of protest repression. We point to two limits against the indefinite extension of state regulation that Foucault identifies: an external limit posed by public law and regime of rights, and an internal limit that questions the effectiveness of ‘too much’ government. We argue that authorities use spatial control as a technology to negotiate these two limits. Specifically, authorities deploy the state’s prerogative of regulating public space as a ‘politically neutral’ legal technology to reconcile the banning of protests with the external limit posed by freedom of assembly. Spatial control also works as an effective form of government to negotiate the internal limits of raisond’état. We use illustrative examples to unpack the mechanisms of how spatial technologies neutralize protests to bolster an authoritarian regime. The study contributes to empirical research on protest repression as well as theoretical discussions on the rationalities of government by expanding the geographical scope of existing research to an autocratizing context.

DOI 10.1080/21622671.2022.2033640

Cilt 11