Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies
研究土耳其曾经的资源开采核心区如何因国家干预策略变化而出现反复的政治反应，揭示落后地区并非总是“报复性”的，其不满情绪具有动态和情境依赖性。
This paper investigates the twists and turns that characterise the political reactions of some ‘left-behind’ places. Offering a situated, context-sensitive and temporal analysis of Turkey’s once extractive heartland, we unveil a volatile and particularly fragile political terrain and throw light on its contingency on changing modes of state intervention and power-laden strategies responsive to disaffection and discontent. We suggest that this power-laden mechanism that plays down, if not eradicates, the ability of places to transform and thrive precludes conceptions that invariably position left-behind places as ‘vengeful’ and invites dynamic and context-sensitive comprehensions of discontent and agential and processual reconceptions of left-behindness.