tuesday, FEBRUARY 26, 2019
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Wolff Conference Room, Room D1103, Albert and Vera List Academic Center
(6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, Room D1103)
Sociology Lecture: Cem Özatalay (University in Exile Visiting Research Scholar)
Our first lecture of the Spring semester features University in Exile Visiting Scholar, Cem Özatalay with his lecture entitled, “A Story of “Conquest in Turkey: From the Hope of Democracy to Authoritarian Drift.”
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP party came into power in 2002 promising to support for Turkey’s bid to join the European Union and backing for an International Monetary Fund austerity programme. These policies were abandoned long ago, and no one is sure about how long the current less Western policies of Turkey will last. However behind this zigzag course between democracy and authoritarianism lies a dynamic that we call sociostructural conquest dynamic, which keep Erdoğan governments relatively strong and stable. The aim of this seminar is to discuss the authoritarian drift of Turkey around this dynamic alleged to be triggered by neoliberalization of the country.
Cem Özatalay, is IIE-SRF fellow and University in Exile Visiting Research Scholar at The New School for Social Research, and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Galatasaray University. Özatalay completed his PhD at EHESS (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales) in 2010 with a thesis on Diversity in worker’s consciousness in the age of pragmatisms: ‘nation-state worker’ versus ‘glocalisation worker’. His research areas are social inequalities, social stratification, sociology of domination, economic sociology of capitalism, neoliberalism, morality and economy, art and economy.
This event is sponosred by the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research.