Berkay Koçak
@qerqay.bsky.social
PhD Political Science | former fellow @otago & @waikato |
| political economy | social history of political theory | Kant |
Website: https://drqerqay.com/
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| political economy | social history of political theory | Kant |
Website: https://drqerqay.com/
X: https://x.com/drqerqay
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Berkay Koçak
@qerqay.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Kia ora followers!
I am a postgraduate political science doctoral researcher with a dual focus on political economy and political theory. I’ll be mostly sharing insights from my work in these two areas, discussions on global capitalism, the climate crisis, and Marxism political theory.
I am a postgraduate political science doctoral researcher with a dual focus on political economy and political theory. I’ll be mostly sharing insights from my work in these two areas, discussions on global capitalism, the climate crisis, and Marxism political theory.
📌In their new article, DylanRiley and Robert Brenner revisit the arguments first outlined in Seven Theses (2022) and extend them into a comprehensive explanation of capitalism’s long downturn. Here’s a breakdown🔽
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, The Long Downturn and Its Political Results, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog...
newleftreview.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
📌In their new article, DylanRiley and Robert Brenner revisit the arguments first outlined in Seven Theses (2022) and extend them into a comprehensive explanation of capitalism’s long downturn. Here’s a breakdown🔽
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
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🚨New Article Alert🚨
The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
By Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
By Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, The Long Downturn and Its Political Results, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog...
newleftreview.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🚨New Article Alert🚨
The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
By Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
By Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
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BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
October 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
Reposted by Berkay Koçak
September 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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📣My article “Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey” is published in the Special Issue “Migration Crises with Adjectives” in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Open access link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey
www.tandfonline.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📣My article “Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey” is published in the Special Issue “Migration Crises with Adjectives” in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Open access link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
🌍 In our new @textumdergi.bsky.social mini series, we discussed Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber.
📝We talked about the power of fossil capital, the limits of green capitalism, and the possibilities for class struggle.
textumdergi.net/climate-chan...
📝We talked about the power of fossil capital, the limits of green capitalism, and the possibilities for class struggle.
textumdergi.net/climate-chan...
Climate change as class war: Interview with Matt Huber
Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War (2022, Verso) has sparked significant debates in Anglo-American circles with its class-based approach to the climate crisis. Rejecting consumption-focused narr...
textumdergi.net
June 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🌍 In our new @textumdergi.bsky.social mini series, we discussed Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber.
📝We talked about the power of fossil capital, the limits of green capitalism, and the possibilities for class struggle.
textumdergi.net/climate-chan...
📝We talked about the power of fossil capital, the limits of green capitalism, and the possibilities for class struggle.
textumdergi.net/climate-chan...
Some more "material"context to support this great article:
Zär’a Ya‘əqob’s Hatäta wasn’t born in a vacuum—it emerged from a crumbling tributary empire, fractured land tenure, and Oromo expansions. A rationalist ethics forged amid social upheaval.
Zär’a Ya‘əqob’s Hatäta wasn’t born in a vacuum—it emerged from a crumbling tributary empire, fractured land tenure, and Oromo expansions. A rationalist ethics forged amid social upheaval.
Should Ethiopian philosophy be practised from a universalist perspective – therefore taking Ethiopian philosophy to be part of the universal quest for wisdom – or from an Africanist perspective that sees Ethiopian philosophy as a means of cultural reaffirmation? buff.ly/qJb6kVb
June 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Some more "material"context to support this great article:
Zär’a Ya‘əqob’s Hatäta wasn’t born in a vacuum—it emerged from a crumbling tributary empire, fractured land tenure, and Oromo expansions. A rationalist ethics forged amid social upheaval.
Zär’a Ya‘əqob’s Hatäta wasn’t born in a vacuum—it emerged from a crumbling tributary empire, fractured land tenure, and Oromo expansions. A rationalist ethics forged amid social upheaval.
Reposted by Berkay Koçak
1/7
Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals
Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...
www.tandfonline.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
1/7
Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals.
With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reposted by Berkay Koçak
This lecture is now posted on YouTube - see below. Final lecture in the series, on "Reorienting our way of seeing nature as a path to solidarity," is tomorrow night, local time www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...
5th lecture posted!
Does addressing climate change require us to shift our understanding of “the market”? youtu.be/eLvJYDazz9Q?...
Does addressing climate change require us to shift our understanding of “the market”? youtu.be/eLvJYDazz9Q?...
De Carle Distinguished Lecture Series 2025: Lecture 5, 29 April
YouTube video by University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka
youtu.be
May 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This lecture is now posted on YouTube - see below. Final lecture in the series, on "Reorienting our way of seeing nature as a path to solidarity," is tomorrow night, local time www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...
Reposted by Berkay Koçak
Exciting that the MEGA has just published the latest tranch of Marx/Engels correspondance, covering the year 1871 (so including the Paris Commune). Includes an incredible 847 letters to and from Marx & Engels, 496 of which are published for the first time
April 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Exciting that the MEGA has just published the latest tranch of Marx/Engels correspondance, covering the year 1871 (so including the Paris Commune). Includes an incredible 847 letters to and from Marx & Engels, 496 of which are published for the first time
Reposted by Berkay Koçak
Planet is sizzling, Solar is booming, Markets are crashing & the US is imploding.
Wondering what Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action??
Join us this friday! @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
w @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyleichan.bsky.social, Adriana Adbenur...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Wondering what Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action??
Join us this friday! @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
w @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyleichan.bsky.social, Adriana Adbenur...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Planet is sizzling, Solar is booming, Markets are crashing & the US is imploding.
Wondering what Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action??
Join us this friday! @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
w @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyleichan.bsky.social, Adriana Adbenur...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Wondering what Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action??
Join us this friday! @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
w @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyleichan.bsky.social, Adriana Adbenur...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Some comments: 📍This article offers an insightful analysis of Marx’s materialism and its impact on the history of political thought. Grounding political thinkers within their material contexts is crucial, and the discussion of historical materialism’s premises is key to that effort. 🧵
There are fifty free copies of the article available via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XYQW8...
Toward a Materialist History of Ideas: History, Contradictions, and Possibilities
This essay contributes to the development of a Marxist approach to the history of ideas based on Marx’s historical materialism. It first outlines historical materialism and its relevance to the stu...
www.tandfonline.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Some comments: 📍This article offers an insightful analysis of Marx’s materialism and its impact on the history of political thought. Grounding political thinkers within their material contexts is crucial, and the discussion of historical materialism’s premises is key to that effort. 🧵
Reposted by Berkay Koçak
There are fifty free copies of the article available via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XYQW8...
Toward a Materialist History of Ideas: History, Contradictions, and Possibilities
This essay contributes to the development of a Marxist approach to the history of ideas based on Marx’s historical materialism. It first outlines historical materialism and its relevance to the stu...
www.tandfonline.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
There are fifty free copies of the article available via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XYQW8...
One of the best decisions in this article was removing the literature review to focus entirely on the strata of relationships that structure the dynamics between capital and the state—explaining the ontology of inter-state systems.
*new article*
Prolegomena on the ‘System of States’
by Raffaele Sciortino, Robert Ferro
endnotes.org.uk/posts/robert...
Prolegomena on the ‘System of States’
by Raffaele Sciortino, Robert Ferro
endnotes.org.uk/posts/robert...
March 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
One of the best decisions in this article was removing the literature review to focus entirely on the strata of relationships that structure the dynamics between capital and the state—explaining the ontology of inter-state systems.
🏓Behind the U.S. plan to leave NATO or the UN lies a scheme by military-industrial and tech oligarchs to turn these institutions into "privatized premium" security services, where other countries subscribe and pay to be included.
⚠️ Musk now advocating for the US to leave NATO and the UN.
March 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🏓Behind the U.S. plan to leave NATO or the UN lies a scheme by military-industrial and tech oligarchs to turn these institutions into "privatized premium" security services, where other countries subscribe and pay to be included.
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
December 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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📢New Article🌟
Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate: Recovering Agency and Discontinuity
by Maïa Pal
brill.com/view/journal...
Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate: Recovering Agency and Discontinuity
by Maïa Pal
brill.com/view/journal...
December 11, 2024 at 1:47 AM
📢New Article🌟
Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate: Recovering Agency and Discontinuity
by Maïa Pal
brill.com/view/journal...
Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate: Recovering Agency and Discontinuity
by Maïa Pal
brill.com/view/journal...
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🔵Hello Bluesky!☁️
🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍
🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍
November 26, 2024 at 11:50 PM
🔵Hello Bluesky!☁️
🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍
🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍
🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍👇
bsky.app/profile/poli...
bsky.app/profile/poli...
bsky.app
November 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
🚩 The Political Marxism community is finally here! We aim to bring together PM enthusiasts passionate about historical materialism. Engage in the latest studies, exchange ideas, and foster connections with us. 🌍👇
bsky.app/profile/poli...
bsky.app/profile/poli...
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“Skinner, Wood, and the two-fold Problem of Context” by @magnusz.bsky.social and “Contradictions and Possibilities in Marxist History of Ideas” by me. Both chapters are from a recent anthology “Philosophy and the History of Ideas” edited by Mikkel Thorup for @baggrund.bsky.social
Filosofi & idéhistorie — Baggrund
Klima er ikke bare summen af vejr. Det er også blevet et symptom og tidsbillede på vor tid. Klima er blevet et af de væsentligste sprog, hvor inden for vi samtaler om og med os selv om, hvem vi er, og...
baggrund.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:29 AM
“Skinner, Wood, and the two-fold Problem of Context” by @magnusz.bsky.social and “Contradictions and Possibilities in Marxist History of Ideas” by me. Both chapters are from a recent anthology “Philosophy and the History of Ideas” edited by Mikkel Thorup for @baggrund.bsky.social
Reposted by Berkay Koçak
We regularly update our Starter Pack of the German-speaking community in political theory and history of ideas as well as a number of international accounts, mostly from institutions. So take a look at who has been added here in the last 3 weeks. We welcome suggestions for further suitable accounts.
November 21, 2024 at 8:52 AM
We regularly update our Starter Pack of the German-speaking community in political theory and history of ideas as well as a number of international accounts, mostly from institutions. So take a look at who has been added here in the last 3 weeks. We welcome suggestions for further suitable accounts.
Jobs, jobs, jobs... 🇳🇿faces not just a recession but an unprecedented downturn, with data slowly revealing the full extent. In the post-pandemic era, a low/no-growth, low-profitability paradigm dominates. Job growth & employment are now keys shaping public perceptions of politics.
Weekly jobs data 🧵
I've been cautious about being too doomy on the weekly jobs trends, but this is starting to look *bad*.
The seasonal pick-up seems to be absent so far (as at mid-Oct). We usually add 20,000 jobs between June & October, but we've *lost* thousands this year [1/n]
I've been cautious about being too doomy on the weekly jobs trends, but this is starting to look *bad*.
The seasonal pick-up seems to be absent so far (as at mid-Oct). We usually add 20,000 jobs between June & October, but we've *lost* thousands this year [1/n]
November 21, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Jobs, jobs, jobs... 🇳🇿faces not just a recession but an unprecedented downturn, with data slowly revealing the full extent. In the post-pandemic era, a low/no-growth, low-profitability paradigm dominates. Job growth & employment are now keys shaping public perceptions of politics.
post a photo of you from a different era.
mid 2010s - in search of a post-Gezi political paradigm (failed experiment)
mid 2010s - in search of a post-Gezi political paradigm (failed experiment)
November 21, 2024 at 3:11 AM
post a photo of you from a different era.
mid 2010s - in search of a post-Gezi political paradigm (failed experiment)
mid 2010s - in search of a post-Gezi political paradigm (failed experiment)
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Here is the nucleus of the list of critical intellectuals on/from Turkey. The list will be updated. go.bsky.app/5KxbZUg
November 20, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Here is the nucleus of the list of critical intellectuals on/from Turkey. The list will be updated. go.bsky.app/5KxbZUg