Remaking the public through the square: invention of the new national cosmology in Turkey

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the formation of authoritarian populism in Turkey by analysing mass mobilization and its repercussions in the symbolic and imaginary realms as authoritarian right-wing populisms have gained global popularity. It scrutinises the AKP government’s mobilization of the masses in the so-called ‘democracy watches’ after the coup attempt on 15 July 2016. During the demonstrations that took place in various locations in Istanbul, authors carried out participant observation fieldwork and field interviews. The paper concludes that democracy watches constitute a significant means of constructing and consolidating a new authoritarian regime, thereby endowing this consolidation process with a popular legitimacy.     

China’s Integration in East Asia:Production Sharing, FDI & High-Tech Trade

China has taken advantage of the globalisation process and has become an assembly country for firms in Asia, which have extended their production and trade networks to China. China’s position in the segmentation of the production processes has fostered its trade in high-technology products. However the rapid technological upgrading of China’s trade is associated with an increasing dependence on foreign capital and technology. The emergence of China has led to the reorganisation of production in Asia and to a triangular trade pattern: firms in advanced Asian economies use China as an export base and instead of exporting finished goods to the US and Europe, now export intermediate goods to their affiliates in China.     

Adjustment, Stabilisation and the Analysis of the Employment Structure in Turkey: An Input- Output Approach

The aim of the paper is to examine the effects on employment of the large-scale structural adjustment programme undertaken by Turkey from the early 1980s onwards. In this respect, we particularly analyse how appropriate the choices of factor intensity after structural adjustment programme have been in the domestic production in comparison with the availability of domestic factor endowment. Our findings show that foreign trade in intermediate goods creates extra use of domestic labour, which can be considered as the labour cost of importing intermediate goods. This is the case in the majority of industries in the pre- and post-liberalisation period in Turkey. However, the capacity of using extra labour as a result of importing intermediate goods appeared to have decreased in the post-liberalisation period.     

Eyewitness identification by 5-to 6-year-old children

Thirty-four 5-to 6-year-old children participated in a unique event in which children interacted with 4 individuals-2 for a long period of time and 2 for a brief period only. Each child was interviewed 1 to 2 days later with photographic lineups that contained the target individuals (target-present) or with lineups that did not (target-absent). When tested with target-present lineups, 5-to 6-year-old children were very accurate in identifying individuals with whom they had prolonged exposure, and were also accurate when asked to identify an individual who was present only briefly, but who was part of a salient aspect of the same event. In contrast, when tested with target-absent lineups, children's performance was very poor regardless of whether the to-be-identified individual had been seen briefly or for a prolonged period of time. These data have important implications for eyewitness identification by young children in clinical and legal settings.     

Prison registers,their possibilities and their pitfalls: the case of local prisons in nineteenth-century Quebec

This article presents a methodological discussion and analysis of nineteenth-century local prison registers, using two datasets drawn from the common gaols of Quebec City (1813–1871) and of Montreal (1836–1899). It first examines the analytical possibilities offered by the wealth of serial data in these sources, concentrating especially on marital status and on the reconstruction of prisoners' incarceration histories. It then turns to the pitfalls inherent in exploiting such administrative records, notably the vagaries of social categorization and of stature measurement, arguing for the importance of reconstructing the legal and administrative contexts of prisoner data collection.     

The evolution of federalism studies in Canada: From centre to periphery

Abstract: Over the past decade, there have been a number of studies that seek to evaluate the state of federalism studies in Canada. The general conclusion seems to be that, while federalism continues to be an important part of the scholarly literature, there is a decline in the study of the traditional areas of federalism, a small number of federalism studies come from scholars in Quebec, and a relatively small number of studies are by female scholars. However, these analyses are based on a single, somewhat limited source of data, the reflections of a single scholar, or a review of a small number of Canadian scholarly journals. In this article, the authors combine a large quantitative assessment of relevant publications dealing with Canadian federalism with a brief qualitative assessment of the state of the federal studies from researchers active in the field. Their research supports some of the earlier conclusions but also suggests that, in recent years, federalism is, very often, a contextual or explanatory factor not the principal object of study. Moreover, there are potentially two Canadian scholarly traditions on federalism, one written in French and the other in English, with far too little engagement between them. Sommaire: Au cours de la dernière décennie, un certain nombre d'études ont tenté d'évaluer l'état de la recherche sur le fédéralisme au Canada. La conclusion générale semble être que, même si le fédéralisme garde un place importante dans les publications savantes au Canada, on note une baisse dans la recherche portant sur les domaines traditionnels du fédéralisme, une faible proportion d'études sur le sujet étant réalisées par des universitaires au Québec, et un nombre relativement faible d'études étant entreprises par des femmes universitaires. Cependant, ces analyses reposent sur une seule source de données, quelque peu limitée, les réflexions d'un seul universitaire, ou sur un examen d'un petit nombre de revues savantes canadiennes. Dans le présent article, les auteurs combinent une importante évaluation quantitative de publications pertinentes portant sur le fédéralisme canadien avec une brève évaluation qualitative de la nature des études sur le fédéralisme entreprises par des chercheurs actifs dans le domaine. Leur recherche appuie certaines des conclusions antérieures mais laisse également entendre que, ces dernières années, le fédéralisme est très souvent un facteur contextuel ou explicatif plutôt que le principal sujet mis à l'étude. De plus, il pourrait fort y avoir deux traditions canadiennes de recherche sur le fédéralisme, une écrite en français et l'autre en anglais, et trop peu de relation entre elles.