Full Description
Upon the tenth anniversary of the Gezi protests, the book takes upon the task of critically re-examining the social uprising of June 2013 in Turkey by compensating for blind spots in the academic corpus hitherto generated. This volume braves into subjects largely neglected by the extant scholarship, in particular, the organizational aspects of the Gezi upheaval, which bear heavily on the course of social and political affairs that has since taken dramatic turns. By delving into the question of political practice, whether on the part of the state, the government or the opposition, the book re-evaluates how the emergent collective momentum was managed by the contesting parties. In other words, the volume concentrates on the multifaceted political organizing of social forces in conflict both during and in the aftermath of the protests.
Contributors are: Athina Arampatzi, Gökhan Atılgan, Özgür Balkılıç, Selin Dingiloğlu, Antoine Dolcerocca, Çağlar Dölek, Kürşad Ertuğrul, Ufuk Gürbüzdal, Ezgi Kaya Hayatsever, Eren Karaca, Sebla Ayşe Kazancı, Arca Özçoban, Ezgi Pınar, Sungur Savran, Ozan Siso, Aylin Topal, Fatih Yaşlı and Adem Yeşilyurt.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction Political Stagnation over the Past Decade
Ufuk Gürbüzdal
Part 1
In the Footsteps of Gezi
2 The Gezi Popular Rebellion A Critical Evaluation
Sungur Savran
3 The Gezi Resistance at the Edge of Populist Rupture
Kürşad Ertuğrul and Aylin Topal
4 A Mirror to the Past, a Step to the Future Kernels of Organized Movement in the Gezi Uprising
Gökhan Atılgan and Ezgi Kaya Hayatsever
Part 2
Two, Three, Many Gezis
5 Gezi and the Yellow Vests Protests "End of the World, End of the Month, Same Struggle?"
Antoine Dolcerocca, Sebla Ayşe Kazancı and Arca Özçoban
6 Re-visiting the "Populist Moment" Geographies of Grassroots Movements and Left Populism in Greece, Spain and Turkey
Athina Arampatzi
Part 3
Dissenting a Step Further beyond Gezi
7 Watchmen as akp's "Brownshirts"? Regime Debate and Police Order in the Post-Gezi Period
Selin Dingiloğlu and Çağlar Dölek
8 In Search of the Labor Movement in Turkey A Panoramic Review vis-à-vis the Gezi Uprising
Ezgi Pınar and Adem Yeşilyurt
9 The Legacy of the Gezi Resistance and Its Effects on Turkey's Socialist Movements of the Past Decade
Eren Karaca and Özgür Balkılıç
10 From Gezi to the New Regime How the akp Continued Its Regime-Building after the Gezi Resistance
Fatih Yaşlı
11 Concluding Remarks Ten Years of Contradictions and Possibilities
Ufuk Gürbüzdal
Index
