The depoliticised mode of regulating money, labour, and macroeconomic management worked in parallel with introducing dependent financialisation as the predominant capital accumulation regime between 20. This paper aims to explain the key dynamics underlying the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) recent authoritarian consolidation efforts in Turkey from a critical political economy perspective consisting of the Regulation School's framework and Nicos Poulantzas's state theory. Turkish feminists in the local Gezi Park protests responded to such regional and national contexts, whilst also defining power relations, injustices and demands in line with international frameworks of feminist anti-globalisation activisms. In Turkey’s context, neoliberal restructuring policies are accompanied by the promotion of religious, familial and heterosexual values along with the state’s penetration into private space, which affects women disproportionally. Utilising Eschle and Maiguashca’s (2010) framework, this article explores how women experience unjust global patterns in local contexts and how oppressive patriarchal neoliberal structures at different levels speak to each other. This article examines the Gezi Park protests in Turkey as an example of this particular type of feminist activism and contextualises it in local forms of collective action. In this way, they could incorporate gender justice claims into the wider agenda of the Global Justice Movement and increase their influence as a political actor. Feminists in the Global Justice Movement draw attention to such issues by highlighting the interrelated nature of patriarchy and the global economic order. It has deepened the socio-economic inequalities and in some regions has stimulated conservative counter-movements, which affect women more than men. Neoliberal globalisation has not affected everywhere equally. In explaining the conditions of existence of the revolt, the article considers the grassroots effects of two political developments: (1) during the last decade, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been involved in a striking level of intra-elite political competition for national power with the Kemalist establishment, which consisted of the high ranks of the military bureaucracy (the army), the civil bureaucracy (jurisdiction), and the Kemalist main opposition party (Republican People's Party), and (2) the level of grassroots political activism, particularly against the government, had gradually and dramatically escalated during the year preceding the uprising in June 2013. It depicts the macro-level political struggles that shaped the last decade in Turkey as well as the short history of grassroots political activism during the year preceding the Gezi revolt. This article provides the trajectory of the political and social conditions that structured the sudden and puzzling explosion of the nationwide Gezi revolt in Turkey out of a small protest for an urban park in Istanbul during the summer of 2013.
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