Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity, © 2014 Macmillan
Harris, L. and M. Islar. (2014). Neoliberalism, Nature and Changing Modalities of Environmental Governance in Contemporary Turkey. In: Atasoy, Y., Ed. (2014). Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity. London and New York, Palgrave MacMillan
Chapter abstract:
This paper presents an overview of recent environmental governance shifts in Turkey, analyzing these shifts in relation to broader trends and crises related to neoliberalism. Employing a discursive analysis of recent justifications and debate related to privatization of the country’s watercourses, as well as decentralization of other resource governance functions (WUAs), full cost recovery and pricing for urban water delivery. This paper analyses the key contours and terms of these debates, including how the situation and Turkey can be understood in relation to broader histories of the Ottoman empire, as well as more recent discourses and shifts regarding the Europeanization, or recent financial and political crises in the Turkish context.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction: Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity; Yildiz Atasoy
PART I: COMMODIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
2. Understanding Neoliberalism as Economization: The Case of the Environment; Fikret Adaman and Yahya M. Madra
3. Neoliberalism, Nature, and Changing Modalities of Environmental Governance in Contemporary Turkey; Leila M. Harris and Mine Islar
PART II: MARKET DEVELOPMENTALISM AND LIVELIHOOD CHANGE
4. Tarnished yet Tenacious: Examining the Track Record and Future of Public-Private Partnership Hospitals in Canada ; Heather Whiteside
5. Nanotechnology Industrial Development and Its Likely Implications for Labour ; Noela Invernizzi
6. Global Economic Crisis and the ‘Spatial Fix’ of China’s World Factory: The Great ‘Long March’ Inland; Jun Zhang
7. Childcare Policy Reform and Gender Equality in China; Xinying Hu
PART III: STATE RESTRUCTURING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
8. Brazil: Neoliberal Restructuring or Rejuvenation of the Developmental
State?; James M. Cypher
9. Can China’s Growth Lead the World Out of the Global Economic Crisis?; Paul Bowles
10. Crisis, Social Class and the ‘Fixing’ of Capitalism in Mexico; Hepzibah Muñoz Martínez
PART IV: ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF POLITICS
11. Alternative Policy Groups and Transnational Counter-Hegemonic Struggle; William K. Carroll
12. Conclusion: Rethinking the Politics of Diversity; Yildiz Atasoy
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