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Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: : a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey

Kavak, Sinem LU (2024) In Journal of Peasant Studies 51(3). p.695-716
Abstract
This article explores the complexities of agency in contemporary territory-based mobilisations in the countryside by focusing on water struggles in Turkey. Using a historical-spatial approach, it combines agrarian political economy analysis with human-nature interactions. Through an analysis of cash crop production and urban-rural interactions, this contribution argues that capitalist agrarian transformation in Turkey led to the emergence of an ‘urban middle class with peasant characteristics’, with a strong capacity for mobilisation and alliance-building. It also argues that this group enabled abstraction, place-framing and aestheticised resistance, common elements we observe in contemporary territorial mobilisations.
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Journal of Peasant Studies
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0306-6150
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10.1080/03066150.2023.2259809
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