| ID | 154940 |
| Title Proper | AKP and the spirit of the ‘new’ Turkey |
| Other Title Information | imagined victim, reactionary mood, and resentful sovereign |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Yilmaz, Zafer |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | A strong sense of victimhood, a discourse of social suffering, and complementary bodily performances, which mobilize rancor, resentfulness, and revengefulness, are fundamental elements of Turkish-Islamist ideology. This article discusses the political dynamics and implications of such assertions of victimhood in the Turkish context. To underscore these dynamics, it analyses the role of the logic of pain in the subject formation of Turkish-Islamist identity and how this logic has been revitalized by constitutive and hegemonic social imagination, and circulated and intensified by a reactionary mood. Additionally, it aims to expose how this reactionary mood profoundly depends on contradictory subjectification processes, which simultaneously involve mobilization of feelings of impotency, non-responsibility, self-pitying, and sublimation of power. This subject formation opens the way for identification with authoritarian figures in the Turkish case. |
| `In' analytical Note | Turkish Studies Vol. 18, No.3; Sep 2017: p.482-513 |
| Journal Source | Turkish Studies 2017-09 18, 3 |
| Key Words | Victimhood ; Justice and Development Party (AKP) ; Resentment ; Reactionary Mood ; Turkish - Islamist Ideology |