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Publication Open Access From postcolonial social contract to the arab uprisings: the neoliberal transformation of the state–society relations and the alternative spaces of the new political activism(2023-09-01) BELDER, FERİT; Belder F.The Arab Uprisings have indelibly impacted the lives of people across the Arab world. Despite many movements facing major disappointments after more than one decade, the material and ideational aspects of the uprisings provide a satisfactory analysis of one of the most significant moments in the history of the region. This article focuses on the political-economic roots of the Arab Uprisings to see the gradual decline in regime security and the breakdown of the postcolonial social contract. It also takes the remarkable role of information technology in shaping new political actorness that managed to combine old and new methods of resistance and in broadening the sphere of political interaction without absolute control of the regimes. Within this context, it is organized as follows. First, it makes sense of the transformation of the state and the state–society relations within the neoliberal reformulation of politics. Second, it reveals the politics of the governed to see alternative forms of politics, solidarity, and information networks. Third, it examines the neoliberal reforms in the Arab world with specific respect to Egypt to see how the state undertook a structural change that eventually undermined the existing social contract which was at the base of the legitimacy. Lastly, the role of the Internet on the politics of the governed in times of political-economic crisis of the state is analyzed. It is argued that the neoliberal transformation of state-society relations and the alternative spaces of political activism both provide a comprehensive outlook to explain the Arab Uprisings.Publication Open Access Patterns of populist mobilization: comparing narratives on COVID-19 in the global South(2023-01-01) BELDER, FERİT; Belder F., Destradi S., Gurol J., Rodriguez C. H., Koluk M., Martins J., Rogel S., Swarati S.This article explores the narratives shaping the official discourse on COVID-19 in five countries governed by populists in different world regions. It is based on the assumption that a crisis like the pandemic constitutes a perfect occasion for populist mobilization, allowing populist leaders to construct reality in their favour by deliberately promoting own narratives about the pandemic, its origin and management. Analyzing 357 original-language speeches and statements by representatives of the populist governments of Brazil, Israel, India, Mexico and Turkey, the article shows that populists in power use crises to mobilize support in very different ways. Surprisingly, most populist governments neither resorted to anti-scientific claims or conspiratorial discourses attributing the crisis to obscure elites, nor blamed minorities not belonging to the \"true people\". By contrast, except for Bolsonaro in Brazil, all other populist governments tried to mobilize support by emphasizing the strength of the \"people\" or even by promoting an inclusive discourse of national unity, leaving aside the more divisive elements of their general populist discourse. Based on the cases analysed, the article concludes by developing hypotheses on the possible drivers of such variations in patterns of populist mobilization.Publication Open Access Making sense of risky haredi behaviors in israel during the covid-19 pandemic(2022-01-01) BELDER, FERİT; Belder F.Covid-19 not only posed a threat to the bodies of individuals or their mental health but also disrupted routines that are re-producing certain communities every day. This is particularly the case for communities with already securitized identities such as the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel. Its authentic narrative, routines and practices that had been sustained thanks to their decades-long autonomy within the state, faced a substantial challenge when the state-led pandemic measures arrived in Haredi towns. This article seeks to explain the Haredi non-compliance with certain pandemic instructions like closing religious and educational centers, through the conceptual lens of an ontological security approach. It argues that the ontological security concerns of the Haredi leadership hampered them from fully complying with the state-led pandemic measures, even at the of the lives of individual Haredim.Publication Open Access The politics of populism in Hungary(2023-06-01) BELDER, FERİT; Belder F.