Title Food Politics, Activism and Alternative Consumer Cooperatives / Beyza Oba and Zeynep Özsoy

Published Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2023

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) Series Organizations and activism Contents Front Cover -- Series page -- Food Politics, Activism and Alternative Consumer Cooperatives -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- 1 Introduction: Experimenting with Direct Democracy -- The underlying premises of food politics in Turkey -- The political and economic concerns that fostered food politics in Turkey -- An evaluation of the cooperative movement in Turkey -- Why and how to study alternative consumer cooperatives -- Structure of the chapters -- 2 The Politics of Food: Alignment for Solidarity and Resistance -- Introduction -- Diverse economies From food security to food sovereignty -- Prefigurative politics in alternative consumer cooperatives -- In conclusion -- 3 Against Neo-Liberalism and Authoritarianism: The Background to Food Politics in Turkey -- Introduction -- The state and politics in Turkey -- The neo-liberal turn and socio-economic transformations -- Unconditional commitment to neo-liberal policies -- Social assistance and inclusion in the welfare system -- Poverty, civic charity and the inclusion of the urban poor -- Financialization and financial inclusion Inclusion of the big new capital: gentrification and the construction industry -- Inclusion of the big new capital: the media industry -- Exclusion of formal organized labour and petty commodity producers -- Food activism for repositioning the urban middle class and rural petty commodity producers -- In conclusion -- 4 The Political Economy of Consumer Cooperatives in Turkey -- Introduction -- The Ottoman period -- Early examples -- The Second Constitution period (1908-18) -- Imprints of the Rochdale movement -- The consumer cooperatives in Turkey -- The state-led cooperative model Deviations from the state-led cooperative model -- The disruption of the cooperative movement -- The emergence of alternative consumer cooperatives -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Alternative Consumer Cooperatives in the Making of a Public Sphere -- Introduction -- The public sphere -- Refeudilization of the public sphere -- Discussing the public sphere in the Turkish context -- Alternative consumer cooperatives in the making of a public sphere -- Direct encounters -- Public meetings: 'The Coop Is Explaining Itself' -- Field trips to production sites -- Talks/documentary screenings -- Workshops The shop -- Karsi lig (the 'alternative' league) -- Online communications: social media and websites -- In conclusion -- 6 Experimenting with an Alternative to the Capitalist Food Provisioning System -- Introduction -- Capitalization of agriculture in Turkey -- The liberalization of agriculture -- Direct Income Support -- Contract farming -- The privatization of state-owned sales cooperatives -- In search of alternatives -- Reconstituting peasantry: developing an unmediated relation with producers -- Experimenting with an alternative surplus generation -- Scaling-up or not? Summary Using the example of Turkey, where neoliberal economics combined with authoritarian politics formed conditions that have profound social consequences, this book investigates Alternative Consumer Cooperatives (ACCs) as spaces for prefigurative food politics Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2023) Subject Consumer cooperatives -- Turkey Food cooperatives -- Turkey Activism -- Turkey BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior Food cooperatives Consumer cooperatives Activism Turkey Form Electronic book Author Özsoy, Zeynep, author Project Muse. distributor ISBN 152922005X 9781529220056

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