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“Cultural Action” as Mode of Domination: Islamic Businessmen’s International Trade Fair and Configurations of Turkey’s Cultural Model

verfasst von : Dilek Yankaya

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Abstract

This chapter questions the diversification of actors and spaces of the elaboration of a specific “cultural action” model through the analysis of an international event organized by businessmen. The Association of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen (Müstakil Sanayici ve İsṃadamları Derneği, MÜSIAD), the representative of Turkish Islamic businessmen close to the power elite, organized its 15th International Fair in November 2014 in Istanbul. International fairs are complex events whose political configurations count as much as business objectives. Their study shows that international economic action is not politically neutral, neither in relation to its objectives nor in relation to its practices. Backed by the government, MÜSIAD’s industrial exposition serves to display the Justice and Development Party’s power and becomes a vector of international circulation of the new dominant cultural model of Turkey.

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The Association of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen, founded in 1991 by an economic elite supporter of political Islam. Today it brings together more than 11,000 business owners, mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, heavily involved in foreign markets and referring to Islam as a mode of social identification and political action. This business community, which expresses various forms of personal political affinities with the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP), is organized as a large network in Turkey and abroad with 140 representative points in 60 countries. It is heavily invested in the techniques and networks of government under AKP rule. For a comprehensive analysis of the empowerment of this social group, see Yankaya (2013).
 
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The definition of “cultural action” is constructed by analogy to the concept of “public action” (Dubois 2009).
 
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For a detailed analysis, see Yankaya (2013).
 
4
For a study of these clientelistic relationships, see Buğra and Savaskan (2014). See also Aymes et al. (2015).
 
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They were first studied as spaces for information exchange and new product launches, therefore as devoid of any relation to politics (Bello and Barksdale 1986; Bello and Barczak 1990; Munuera Aleman and Ruiz De Maya 1999). Seized afterwards as an object of ethnographic study, international marketplaces are explored as concrete spaces where globalization is produced by “real individuals and not by a depersonalized rational action” (Garcia-Papet et al. 2015; Garcia-Papet 2005). In another context, cultural tourism fairs in France are studied as a political space constitutive of a professional community presenting a “performative utopia” (Cousin 2005).
 
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Interview during MIF, 27 November 2014, Istanbul.
 
7
Inaugural speech of the MÜSIAD President, Nail Olpak, 26 November 2014, Istanbul.
 
8
Haber Rota, 21 November 2014.
 
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These are Kümas Manyezit Sanayi, Tosyali, Akdaglar, Cinar Boru (steel and construction industry), IGA et TAV (airport operators), Kalyon (construction, média), MNG Holding (transport, tourism, construction industry, energy, finance and media), Siyah Kalem Mühendislik, Vefa Holding (construction), Kaanlar (food industry), Kiler Holding (supermarkets, tourism, construction, energy), Hamidiye (water distribution, affiliate of Istanbul Municipality), BiaMedia (advertisement agency for many airline companies such as Turkish Airlines), Al Baraka (Islamic bank) and Avea (telecommunications). See also Massicard (2014).
 
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I cite Turkish Airlines as a public structure because although only 50% belong to the state, all decisions are taken by public authorities.
 
11
For instance, see the president’s speech of 29 May 2015 during the inauguration of the Islamic window of the public bank Ziraat Bankası, and that of 29 October 2014 on the two new districts in the Istanbul project Kanal Istanbul. “Aiming high: the government works to Develop as a global financial center,” Oxford Business Group, 2013. For a discussion of the possibility, rather small, of realizing this objective, see Akyol and Baltacı (2015).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
“Cultural Action” as Mode of Domination: Islamic Businessmen’s International Trade Fair and Configurations of Turkey’s Cultural Model
verfasst von
Dilek Yankaya
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63658-0_7