The state in training : European Union accession and the making of human rights in Turkey
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation traces the route and a key mechanism through which human rights continues to infuse into the state domain in Turkey. At its focus are the human rights training programs for state officials and government workers, held in line with Turkey's pending accession to the European Union (EU). In this ethnographic study of those training programs, I aim to scrutinize both the everyday governmental configurations of Turkey's accession to the EU and the effects of the particular framing of human rights engendered by the accession process. Built around these two main pillars, this study emerges in conversation with both the anthropological studies of transnational governance and the anthropology of human rights. Human rights training programs are part of a larger process to transform the national governmental field in line with good governance in Turkey. They are complementary to the legal amendments, and they aim to bring about attitudinal and behavioral transformation in the everyday agents and practitioners of governance. The contradiction between these agents' professional socialization, reflecting the nationalist imaginary that dominates the Turkish governmental realm, and the country's obligations arising from its EU candidacy designates training programs as highly contested sites. These sites, as such, display the complex everyday dynamics of transnational standardization processes. Integration of human rights into the governmental domain requires disassociating human rights from their established political connotations, and re-framing them instead as relevant to and compatible with practices of national governance. This is achieved by formulating human rights as a requirement of expertise and professionalism to which all state officials should subscribe in order to better perform their jobs. My work focuses on how this re-framing is administered, and how it is received by the state officials and government workers who participate in human rights training programs. By analyzing the wider implications, and both the intended and unintended consequences of human rights training programs, this dissertation also seeks to understand the constitutive terms and building blocks of the governmental sphere in Turkey, which an attention to the re-framing of human rights and its reception by the state officials helps illuminate.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Babül, Elif M. (Elif Müyesser) |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology |
| Primary advisor | Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena) |
| Thesis advisor | Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena) |
| Thesis advisor | Beinin, Joel, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, James |
| Thesis advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Advisor | Beinin, Joel, 1948- |
| Advisor | Ferguson, James |
| Advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Elif Müyesser Babül. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Elif Muyesser Babul
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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