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The Road to Gezi: Resistance and Counter-Publics in 21st Century Turkey

The Road to Gezi: Resistance and Counter-Publics in 21st Century Turkey

Yücesan-Özdemir, Gamze

Paperback

International RelationsTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 1926958322
ISBN13: 9781926958323
Publisher: Red Quill Books
Published: Jun 1 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Description

The Road to Gezi sheds light on the resistance and political construction of counterpublics in 21st century Turkey by analyzing the 'No' protests and the social upheavals of 'We have a Dream' across different domains and actors in the lead up to the Gezi Park protest. The contributors to this anthology offer an alternative, critical reading of Gezi collectively arguing that the resistance practices of various factions and strata of the working class across a wide social terrain created the uprising. These included: student movements, anti-Hydroelectric Power Plant (HES) resistance, movements against urban renewal, social upheals of white collar workers, protests of blue collar workers, women's movements, social media activism, new forms of journalism, and direct democracy practices of revolutionary-popular local governments.

Finally, this anthology demonstrates that an analysis of resistance and counterpublics in the lead up to the Gezi uprising offers a chronicle of the creative and useful ways in which theoretical analyses of activism can be materialized.

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