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Remaking Politics, Markets and Citizens in Turkey critically analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and institutions from the West to Turkey. Through an ethnographic investigation of the newly established tobacco market, Ebru Kayaalp considers how they are being adopted and transformed in their new settings. The February 2001 crisis, the most severe economic downturn in the history of Turkey, generated an emergency situation in which a series of sweeping neoliberal policies were implemented to prop up the collapsed economy. To receive the necessary loans from the internati

Des fermiers dépossédés de leur citoyenneté. Les transformations du marché du tabac à Adiyaman La loi turque sur le tabac de 2002 a introduit un système contractuel selon lequel les producteurs vendent leur tabac à un prix et en quantités déterminés avant la saison de la plantation. Ce nouveau système a eu un impact considérable sur la structure de la production agricole dans le sud?est de la Turquie où existe un système de métayage extensif. En se fondant sur une enquête de terrain à Adimayan, cet article étudie la façon dont ce nouveau système a transformé la structure économique et sociale de la région en offrant de nouvelles opportunités à certains, mais en les fermant à d'autres.

AbstractThere is much literature on the diffusion and translation of regulatory agencies from the perspective of formal political models. Ethnographic research of regulation process is, however, much less common. This is even more evident with regards to the study of regulatory agencies established outside the "West." This article analyzes the translation process of the Turkish tobacco regulatory agency, which was established in 2002, under commitments made to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Based on an ethnographic analysis of two controversial cases, the study shows that tobacco regulation was being shaped and pursued in an environment of ambivalence and uncertainty. The study concludes that the decision‐making process of the agency is context‐specific and constructed within the perpetual struggles and interactions among the actors involved in this process.