| dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines the social and material construction of Turkey as an
emerging market. It does so through the lens of discourses, knowledge and
practices within the emerging markets industry. Furthermore this study also
examines the power geometries between different actors and centres of
evaluation to understand how these circumstances influence the production
of knowledge about Turkey. Set within debates on emerging markets and
geographies of finance, the thesis focuses on Turkey’s bond and equity
markets. It makes use of a variety of methodologies including semistructured
interviews, textual analysis and the analysis of published data
from various sources. The underlying argument of the thesis rests on the
mutually formative nature of the territorialities and relationalities of
discourses, knowledge and practices. Discourses shape what is regarded as
knowledge. Knowledge of Turkey informs the discourses around the
Turkish economy and so shape the nature of, and the ways in which,
economic practices are put to work. Economic practices produce new
knowledge, which in turn informs the production of new discourses. These
discourses, knowledge and practices are, in turn, shaped by their own
territorial and relational geographies (e.g. the power geometries of the
Turkish emerging market industry). Thus, the thesis explores not only the
social, political and economic dynamics taking place within Turkey and its
emerging links with Europe, the Middle East and the wider geo-political
economy, but explores how discourses and knowledge about these
developments are also the product of the socio-spatial relations of the
emerging market industry. The thesis sets out to show how all of these
influences both respond to and shape developments on the ground, and so
actively contribute to the emergent economic geographies of Turkey as an
emerging market | en_US |
