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Centralised Digital Politics, Lateral Surveillance, Shared Governance of Contingencies and Extra-legal Over-reach into Domestic Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

Seçkin Sertdemir
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University of Turku, Finland
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This chapter investigates the securitisation logic of control animating the AKP’s new securitisation technologies by enumerating the impact of four relevant factors on society: authoritarian lateral surveillance; centralised digital politics; shared contingency governance; and extra-legal and religious over-reach into domestic life. By focusing on these four factors in each section, I argue that under the sway of an authoritarian politics of securitisation, the AKP government combines the technologies of lateral surveillance and centralised digital politics to transgress the principle of individual criminal responsibility in favour of ‘shared responsibility’, a familial ‘sharing in the referent object of securitisation,’ and participation in the maintenance of security. I further suggest that this new development marks a shift away from state of emergency rule to an authoritarian securitisation in which Turkey uses peer-to-peer surveillance pervasively and invasively in the service of state protection.

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Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey
Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State
, pp. 85 - 111
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Seçkin Sertdemir, University of Turku, Finland
  • Book: Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009524599.004
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  • Seçkin Sertdemir, University of Turku, Finland
  • Book: Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009524599.004
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  • Control
  • Seçkin Sertdemir, University of Turku, Finland
  • Book: Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009524599.004
Available formats
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