Journals / Toplum ve Bilim / 2014 / Sayı: 131

Borders of moral economy: Unregulated trade and the new wealth of Kilis town

Ahlaki ekonominin sınırları: Kilis'in kayıtdışı ekonomisi ve yeni zenginleri

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Engaging with the notion of moral economy in analyzing unregulated trade across the border, this paper discuss to what extent these economic practices constitute a redistributive logic, even if largely controlled by large-scale entrepreneurs within a context where the state failed to promote public and local investments in industrialization and offer employment opportunities to the town community and point to the ways in which these practices yield to wealth generation and upward mobility as they are inter- twined with transnational crime networks.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Drawing on fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Kilis border town, this paper explores how the local dwellers challenged as well as creatively appropriated the governmental policies during the import-substituting period that pursued to reg- ulate and/or ban the trade relations; and hegemonic discourses that criminalized and marginalized those who are involved in these activities.
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Key Findings & Data:From the vantage point of a smuggler-turned-into-businessman and an extended family from ru- ral background moving up among the ranks of urban middle class, it approach- es the geographical border not only as territorial boundary, but also as the margins of economy and law that the dwellers sought benefiting as a mechanism of social mobility by manipulating and circumventing it.
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Conclusion & Impact:Engaging with the notion of moral economy in analyzing unregulated trade across the border, this paper discuss to what extent these economic practices constitute a redistributive logic, even if largely controlled by large-scale entrepreneurs within a context where the state failed to promote public and local investments in industrialization and offer employment opportunities to the town community and point to the ways in which these practices yield to wealth generation and upward mobility as they are inter- twined with transnational crime networks.
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Abstract

Drawing on fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Kilis border town, this paper explores how the local dwellers challenged as well as creatively appropriated the governmental policies during the import-substituting period that pursued to reg- ulate and/or ban the trade relations; and hegemonic discourses that criminalized and marginalized those who are involved in these activities. From the vantage point of a smuggler-turned-into-businessman and an extended family from ru- ral background moving up among the ranks of urban middle class, it approach- es the geographical border not only as territorial boundary, but also as the margins of economy and law that the dwellers sought benefiting as a mechanism of social mobility by manipulating and circumventing it. Engaging with the notion of moral economy in analyzing unregulated trade across the border, this paper discuss to what extent these economic practices constitute a redistributive logic, even if largely controlled by large-scale entrepreneurs within a context where the state failed to promote public and local investments in industrialization and offer employment opportunities to the town community and point to the ways in which these practices yield to wealth generation and upward mobility as they are inter- twined with transnational crime networks.

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Bu çalışma Kilis sınır kasabasında yürütülen saha araştırması ve derinlemesine görüşmelere dayanarak kasaba sakinlerinin ithal ikameci sanayileşme döneminde ticaret ilişkilerini düzenlemeyi ve/veya yasaklamayı amaçlayan hükümet politikalarına ve bu faaliyetlere katılanları kriminalize edip marjinalleştiren hegemonik söylemlere nasıl hem karşı koyup hem de bunları yaratıcı bir şekilde kendilerine mal ettiğini inceliyor. İşadamına dönüşmüş bir kaçakçı ve kırsal arka plandan kentli orta sınıfa yükselmiş bir geniş ailenin hikayesinden bakarak sınırın yalnızca ülke sınırı olmayıp aynı zamanda kasaba sakinlerinin manipüle edip etrafından dolanarak sosyal hareketlilik mekanizması olarak yararlanmaya çalıştığı ekonomik ve hukuksal çeperler olarak yaklaşıyor. Sınıraşırı kayıt dışı ticareti incelerken ahlaki ekonomi kavramına odaklanıp bu ekonomik pratiklerin önemli ölçüde büyük girişimciler tarafından kontrol edilmekle birlikte ne ölçüde devletin, kamu ve yerel sanayi yatırımlarını teşvik edemediği, kasaba halkına istihdam imkanları sunamadığı koşullarda yeniden bölüşüm mantığına oturduğunu ve bu pratiklerin ulusaşırı suç ağlarıyla iç içe geçtikleri ölçüde nasıl servet ve yukarı hareketlilik yarattığını tartışıyor.

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ŞENOĞUZ, H. P. (2014). Borders of moral economy: Unregulated trade and the new wealth of Kilis town. Toplum ve Bilim, Sayı: 131, 105–134. https://ajindex.com/articles/366872

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