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Exploring the Prospects of Turkish Resource Nationalism. Constructing Subject and Places through Hydrosocial Territories - the Case of GAP

Ali, Nadja LU (2022) STVM25 20212
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This thesis sets to interrogate the deployment of resource nationalism in the Turkish case, using the hydraulic project Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi as a case study. While previous research has often determined resource nationalism through state-building and economic accumulation, the thesis challenges this literature by focusing on how conceptualizations of subjects and places are constructed in conjuncture to resource nationalist imageries to build a sense of national unity. Adhering to the post-structural school and Foucault’s versatile conception governmentality, resource nationalism is comprehended as a political discourse organized by knowledge-practices, water-scientific resolutions, discursive imageries, and political hierarchies. As... (More)
This thesis sets to interrogate the deployment of resource nationalism in the Turkish case, using the hydraulic project Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi as a case study. While previous research has often determined resource nationalism through state-building and economic accumulation, the thesis challenges this literature by focusing on how conceptualizations of subjects and places are constructed in conjuncture to resource nationalist imageries to build a sense of national unity. Adhering to the post-structural school and Foucault’s versatile conception governmentality, resource nationalism is comprehended as a political discourse organized by knowledge-practices, water-scientific resolutions, discursive imageries, and political hierarchies. As the region in which GAP is situated has historically been depicted as ‘regressive’ in comparison to Turkey, I argue that GAP fosters a developmental trajectory to homogenize the region with remaining Turkey. Through an analysis of GAP’s policy framework, I conclude that GAP deploys resource nationalism by encouraging ideas of modernization, competitiveness, and entrepreneurship onto subjects and places to bolster socio-economic development and establish a greater sense of national unification. However, as these imageries are not pursued by force, the thesis explores the applicability of productive power, where restraining/uplifting imageries of subjects and places shape how these tenets are conceptualized through naturalizing discourses. (Less)
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author
Ali, Nadja LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM25 20212
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Resource nationalism, GAP, hydrosocial territories, governmentality
language
English
id
9070366
date added to LUP
2022-03-14 12:52:39
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2022-03-14 12:52:39
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  abstract     = {{This thesis sets to interrogate the deployment of resource nationalism in the Turkish case, using the hydraulic project Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi as a case study. While previous research has often determined resource nationalism through state-building and economic accumulation, the thesis challenges this literature by focusing on how conceptualizations of subjects and places are constructed in conjuncture to resource nationalist imageries to build a sense of national unity. Adhering to the post-structural school and Foucault’s versatile conception governmentality, resource nationalism is comprehended as a political discourse organized by knowledge-practices, water-scientific resolutions, discursive imageries, and political hierarchies. As the region in which GAP is situated has historically been depicted as ‘regressive’ in comparison to Turkey, I argue that GAP fosters a developmental trajectory to homogenize the region with remaining Turkey. Through an analysis of GAP’s policy framework, I conclude that GAP deploys resource nationalism by encouraging ideas of modernization, competitiveness, and entrepreneurship onto subjects and places to bolster socio-economic development and establish a greater sense of national unification. However, as these imageries are not pursued by force, the thesis explores the applicability of productive power, where restraining/uplifting imageries of subjects and places shape how these tenets are conceptualized through naturalizing discourses.}},
  author       = {{Ali, Nadja}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Exploring the Prospects of Turkish Resource Nationalism. Constructing Subject and Places through Hydrosocial Territories - the Case of GAP}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}