Agriculture, peasantry and poverty in Turkey in the neo-liberal age

This book investigates recent policies introduced into Turkey which are designed to reduce state activities and open up the country to international investment and trade. This is done in the context of the UNs Millennium Development Goals continuing to stretch into the distant future amid the ongoin...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Öztürk, Murat (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:Get Fullteks
DOAB: description of the publication
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
LEADER 02790naaaa2200337uu 4500
001 doab_20_500_12854_28891
020 |a 978-90-8686-748-6 
020 |a 9789086867486 
024 7 |a 10.3920/978-90-8686-748-6  |c doi 
041 0 |a English 
042 |a dc 
072 7 |a KCM  |2 bicssc 
100 1 |a Öztürk, Murat  |4 auth 
245 1 0 |a Agriculture, peasantry and poverty in Turkey in the neo-liberal age 
260 |a Wageningen  |b Wageningen Academic Publishers  |c 2012 
300 |a 1 electronic resource (240 p.) 
506 0 |a Open Access  |2 star  |f Unrestricted online access 
520 |a This book investigates recent policies introduced into Turkey which are designed to reduce state activities and open up the country to international investment and trade. This is done in the context of the UNs Millennium Development Goals continuing to stretch into the distant future amid the ongoing instability of the global financial system and economic pressures on the West. The focus is on agriculture and the major effects of a deliberate restructuring of an agrarian economy as seen through the lens of the peasant, the village and poverty. This unique socioeconomic review of Turkey, which is generally thought to be a contemporary success story of the neo-liberal paradigm, argues for a new understanding of the destructive effects of global capitalism. Some issues addressed are the effects on Turkey's countryside as its agricultural sector has been catapulted onto the world market, how farming has changed and what this has meant for small-scale enterprises. Also discussed is how rural communities have fared, capital relations have been transformed in the process and the impact this has had on the nation's poor. Finally, the ways in which neo-liberalism has guided government's response to the new social needs is discussed along with how Turkey's experience parallels similar developments worldwide. This serves as a window to the reality of development at a time when the philosophy for growth underpinning development is facing an increasingly profound crisis of confidence worldwide. 
540 |a Creative Commons  |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/  |2 cc  |4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 
546 |a English 
650 7 |a Development economics & emerging economies  |2 bicssc 
653 |a agricultural and rural transformation 
653 |a poverty 
653 |a peasantry 
653 |a migration 
653 |a neo-liberalism 
653 |a Labour economics 
653 |a Neoliberalism 
653 |a Turkey 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34543/1/413361.pdf  |7 0  |z Get Fullteks 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28891  |7 0  |z DOAB: description of the publication