Navigating precarity: the case of the publishing sector in Turkey

Thesis

It is well documented that many hybrid regimes worldwide have witnessed an authoritarian turn in recent years. Incumbents in these regimes have sought to consolidate and extend their power through the use of legal institutions, as opposed to direct suppression. Using the rhetoric of liberal-democratic principles such as “the rule of law” and “free and fair elections,” leaders meanwhile have weakened the mechanisms of accountability and the independence of the judiciary. Meanwhile, despite ...

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Authors: Uluçay, S

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-xoxq2x5yz
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: lived experiences of precarity; bureaucratisation of violence; criminalisation of dissent; courts; hybrid regimes; autocratic legalism; silencing effect; activism; resistance; the publishing sector; intelligentsia
• Subjects: Middle East; Qualitative research; Turkey; Socio-Legal Studies