Different facades of “wreckedness”: young women’s uncertainty experiences and future(less) narratives in Turkey

Official URL: https://risc01.sabanciuniv.edu/record=b3199885

This thesis aims to investigate the daily lived experiences of young women who feel frustrated with the political and social context in Turkey and to explore their range of emotions vis-a-vis growing economic crisis and state authoritarianism in Turkey. As the neoliberal context makes the transitions from youth to adulthood more complex globally, the young people in Turkey also struggle in their attempts to transition into social adulthood. Focusing on young women from major universities in Istanbul, I aim to understand the particularities and emotions that actually existing neoliberalism in Turkey produces in this context .The main point in this thesis is that the participants are reluctant to subscribe to the readily available narratives and dreams - such as economically stable adulthood, politically stable country, intimately stable relationships, and dream life fantasies abroad. This reluctance, alongside with failure to replace these narratives and dreams with the new ones create an emotional/affective constellation, which I refer to as wreckedness.