Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Orta Doğu Araştırmaları Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2023
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: ABDULKADİR DEVECİ
Danışman: Besim Can Zırh
Özet:
The exacerbating adverse
effects of the climate crisis drive the political and economic actors to
maneuver from the accustomed political and economic behaviors and attitudes,
especially in the last two decades. Energy transition as a seventh sustainable
development goal of the United Nations becomes one of the solutions offered by
those actors. This thesis focuses on the financialization of the renewable
energy transition and its political and social effects at the global, national,
and local levels. Firstly, the thesis elucidates how the global paradigm shift
in the energy transition parallels neoliberal structuring. Secondly, the
effects of financialization on emerging countries and the Turkish political
economy between 1980 and today are discussed with a literature review. Thirdly,
the Turkish energy transition path is analyzed, and the impacts of
financialization on the policy-making process are elaborated with a discursive
analysis of the parliamentary minutes' records from 1996 to July 2023.
Fourthly, the results of the social impact assessment of the solar energy transition
process are conducted through semi-structured interviews with different sectors,
and the local municipality in the Akhisar region is analyzed to see the impacts
of the financialization of energy transition at the local level. The impacts at
different geographical levels are discussed together in the conclusion chapter.