ATA 68B Theorizing Neoliberalism
Fall 2010
Berna Yazıcı
Neoliberalism has become one of the most significant concepts or even a buzzword in explaining contemporary socio-economic, political and cultural transformations across the globe. In Turkish studies, the concept has also been widely used in the analyses of topics as diverse as economic policy, welfare reform, urban restructuring, law, memory and consumption, just to name a few.
This course aims to provide a selective introduction into the scholarly efforts to theorize the phenomena encapsulated under the grand abstraction, “neoliberalism.” One of our primary goals will be to explore the insights and limits neoliberalism as an explanatory device entails for understanding contemporary relations of power and inequality.
