Books by Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ
Tamamlanmamış Kentsel Devrim: Günümüz Türkiyesi'nde Kent Kriz ve Gündelik Hayat, 2022
Bölüm başlığı:
"Devletin Yeniden Ölçeklenmesi, Dışlanma ve Neoliberalizmin Zamansallığı"
(Sta... more Bölüm başlığı:
"Devletin Yeniden Ölçeklenmesi, Dışlanma ve Neoliberalizmin Zamansallığı"
(State rescaling, exclusion and the temporality of neoliberalism)
Papers by Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ
Urban Geography
Contemporary urbanization is characterized by the incorporation of historically isolated places i... more Contemporary urbanization is characterized by the incorporation of historically isolated places into vast urbanized networks that are planetary in scope. We underscore the political processes and actors that instantiate urban transformation. Drawing on Lefebvre's writings on urban revolutionsin pluralwe show that he considered comprehensive urban transformation the result of multiple place-based revolutions that are typically driven by a state. We then present Turkey as an example in which the Justice and Development Party embraced an agenda of absolute national development whose primary mechanism was a nationwide urban revolution. We focus on Ankara, which served as a laboratory for urban policy experimentation from 1994 onwards, and we present original research to show how its urban governance mechanisms informed urban planning legislation at the national scale after 2002 when the Justice and Development Party embarked on a program of national renewal. This regime was based on the distribution of short-term gains but its longterm costs became apparent after 2010 and it faced increasingly fierce contestation. This case not only exposes the limits of urban revolution in Turkey, but it also shows that urban revolutions are negotiated political processes and inherently contingent, uneven and incomplete.
This paper will argue that governance of mobility is the most challenging, and yet the most impor... more This paper will argue that governance of mobility is the most challenging, and yet the most important task a political authority is to undertake if it is to exist. Territoriality, as a set of spatially constituted political control strategies (over a given population as well as the resources located on a piece of land), is there to ensure that mobilities remain under the control of a given political authority. Yet, this control is a fragile one and is to be reproduced on a continuous basis. There are also non-spatial/sectoral measures developed/implemented to complement the territorial strategies. The challenges to the governance of mobility are manyfold. They are rooted in two factors that constantly generate mobility and mobile subjects (such as inmigrants, immigrants, and refugees): a) the dynamics of capitalism, which constantly reshape the geographies upon which contemporary political authories commit themselves to run, at an increasing speed and intensity in the midst of globa...
The Rise of the Infrastructure State
Journal of Geographical Sciences
Günümüzde yerel yönetimlerin ülkelerin yönetim yapıları içerisinde aldıkları roller artmakta ve b... more Günümüzde yerel yönetimlerin ülkelerin yönetim yapıları içerisinde aldıkları roller artmakta ve buna koşut olarak yerel yönetimlerin toplumsal, ekonomik ve politik dizgelerle olan etkilcşimleri de farklılaşmaktadır. Politik yapıların hızlı evrimi yerel yönetimlere farklı işlevler yüklemektedir. Bu çalışma kapsamında yerel yönetimlerin oluşumlarını etkileyen faktörler, yerel yönetİm ve merkezi yönetim ilİşkisİ ve yerel yönetimlerİn demokratik kurum ve sİvil toplum örgütü olarak kabul edilmesi sonucu üstlendiği işlevleri ne derecede yerine getircbildiğİ tartışılacaktır
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Books by Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ
"Devletin Yeniden Ölçeklenmesi, Dışlanma ve Neoliberalizmin Zamansallığı"
(State rescaling, exclusion and the temporality of neoliberalism)
Papers by Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ
"Devletin Yeniden Ölçeklenmesi, Dışlanma ve Neoliberalizmin Zamansallığı"
(State rescaling, exclusion and the temporality of neoliberalism)
in Turkey, which is a transition country between the East and the West. It is argued that this
in-betweenness leads to a gap between the intended goals and outcomes of relevant policies. The article
places a special emphasis on how the post-1980 neoliberal turn has shaped the policy orientation of
successive governments, and transformed the nature of child poverty and youth unemployment in
Turkey, making the socioeconomic inequalities worse while concentrating these problems into major
urban centers. It is observed that Turkey still does not have a long-term policy outlook regarding the
future of child poverty and youth unemployment, such that those two issues could be treated as parts of
the same problem. The same observation is also made about the related policy implementation structure.
It is concluded that there is a need for a comprehensive approach, taking into account the needs and
problems of the individual at different stages of life as a whole; paying attention to the interdependencies
across the outcomes of state intervention in different policy areas; and ensuring policy coordination
within and across currently fragmented policy implementation structures in different fields.