This article aims at a critical contribution to neo-Gramscian political economy literature on agency of
transnational capitalist class in shaping the global socio-economic order through the empirical analysis
of hegemonic agency of TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association) in formation of EU
membership as a hegemonic project in Turkey in the first half of the 2000s. Drawing Poulantzas close to
Gramsci and using his distinction between the power bloc and the dominated classes/groups, it
introduces the notion of double moments of hegemony, which marks a comprehensive and multidimensional
understanding of hegemony as a process involving two interrelated moments – within the
power bloc and over a class-divided society. This conceptual contribution helps us to depict the political
agency of transnational capitalist class in the making of the neoliberal mode of regulation, beyond its
economic role in shaping the regime of accumulation. This conception not only provides an alternative
against the conventional notion of hegemony within the neo-Gramscian IPE as limited with the
processes, alliances, compromises and struggles within the power bloc but also contributes to the
broader field of Gramscian studies in terms of analysing the strategic-agential dimension in the making
of hegemony, focusing on the (material and discursive) means and mechanisms in which hegemony is
produced and maintained. A Gramscian analysis of TÜSİAD as a hegemonic agent, a political party and
a collective organic intellectual builds on an empirical research on those means and mechanisms utilized
in shaping the EU membership as a hegemonic project.
TÜSİAD Turkey-EU relations hegemony hegemonic project neo-Gramscian IPE
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Araştırma Makalesi |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 11 Mayıs 2015 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2015 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 1 |