Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies

Özatağan G., ERAYDIN A.

Regional Studies, cilt.58, sa.6, ss.1251-1263, 2024 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 58 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2249505
  • Dergi Adı: Regional Studies
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ABI/INFORM, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, CAB Abstracts, EconLit, Geobase, Index Islamicus, PAIS International, Political Science Complete, Public Administration Abstracts, Public Affairs Index, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1251-1263
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: geographies of discontent, left-behind places, modalities of power, neoliberalisation, state spatial strategies, territorial politics, uneven development
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper investigates the twists and turns that characterise the political reactions of some ‘left-behind’ places. Offering a situated, context-sensitive and temporal analysis of Turkey’s once extractive heartland, we unveil a volatile and particularly fragile political terrain and throw light on its contingency on changing modes of state intervention and power-laden strategies responsive to disaffection and discontent. We suggest that this power-laden mechanism that plays down, if not eradicates, the ability of places to transform and thrive precludes conceptions that invariably position left-behind places as ‘vengeful’ and invites dynamic and context-sensitive comprehensions of discontent and agential and processual reconceptions of left-behindness.