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Migrant States, Mobile Economies:
​Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey

MIGRANT STATES, MOBILE ECONOMIES:
RETHINKING THE POLITICAL IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY

8 October 2015
Fairfax, Virginia

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This event brought together scholars from anthropology and political science to interrogate the conceptual relationship between state formation and capital accumulation as related but distinct technologies of power in contemporary Turkey.  From gold traffic between Turkey and Iran and smuggling economies in Turkey’s Kurdistan to the historical development of energy infrastructures and im/mobilities across the Turkey-Syria border, the authors aimed to chronicle the shifting and transnational operations of economic and political power. By exploring states of migrancy as well as economies of mobility in conjunction with state formation and capital accumulation, Migrant States & Mobile Economies aims to rethink the political in both political economy and political theory through the historiography and ethnography of contemporary Turkey. 

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  • The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization
  • Tunisia: Labor and Development in Times of Transition
  • Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
  • New Directions in Political Economy

Highlights

Organizer
Bassam Haddad


Papers & Presentations
Firat  Bozcali, Stanford  University
Money in Black or Blood? The  Political­‐Moral in the Smuggling Economies of Turkey’s Kurdistan

Cihan Tekay, CUNY-­The  Graduate  Center
Rethinking the History of Turkey's Political Economy: Generating Consent by Infrastructure    

Eli  Sari, Cornell  University
Who/What Can  Cross the Border? Mobilities and Immobilities at the Turkey­‐Syria Border
 
Emrah  Yildiz, Harvard  University
Do not go quietly: Human agency, contingency, and the push to formulate a structural explanation of the Arab Spring

Banu Bargu, The  New  School  for  Social  Research
 Seeking Refuge:
Lip-Sewing and Truth-­Telling
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  • FAMA
  • Researchers
  • Projects
    • MESPI
    • Knowledge Production Project >
      • ME-KP
    • Political Economy Project >
      • Development and the Uprisings
      • Class Formations and Dynamics
      • The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization
      • Tunisia: A Political Economy in Transition
      • Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey
      • Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
      • 2016 Political Economy Institute
    • The Lebanon Project >
      • Research Working Group: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958 >
        • Inaugural Workshop: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958
      • Lebanon Dissertation Summer Institute
    • The Palestine Project >
      • Gaza in Context Film
      • Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice in Palestine
      • Audio Content
    • The Civil Society Project >
      • Exploring an Agenda on Active Citizenship
      • NGOs in the Arab World Post-Arab Uprisings
      • Academia & Social Justice
    • Middle East Media Project >
      • Journalism Against the Grain
    • The Egypt Project >
      • Towards a Cultural Cartography
      • After Tahrir
      • Audio Content
    • Refugees and Migrants Project >
      • Refugees in Lebanon
      • Study Week Beirut
    • Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarities Project
  • Initiatives
    • Political Islam, ISIS, and Sectarianism >
      • Understanding the ISIS Phenomenon
      • Sectarianism, Identity and Conflict in Islamic Contexts
    • SAND
    • MED RESET
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