The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey occupygezi [Hardcover]

The aim of this collection of essays, the first academic book on the topic in English, is to offer a preliminary analysis of Gezi protests and address the following questions: 'How can we account for the protests?' and 'Who were the protesters?'Preface by Judith Butler 1. Introduction; Umut ?zk?r?ml? 2. A Moment of Elation: The Gezi Protests/Resistance and the Fading of the AKP Project; Soli ?zel 3. Brand Turkey and the Gezi Protests: Authoritarianism In Flux, Law, and Neoliberalism; Asl? I?s?z 4. G?lenism: The Middle Way or Official Ideology?; Cihan Tu?al 5. Can the 'Spirit Of Gezi' Transform Progressive Politics in Turkey?; Onur Bak?ner 6. White Turks, Black Turks, and Negroes: The Politics of Polarization; Michael Ferguson 7. Occupy Gezi as Politics of the Body; Zeynep Gambetti 8. Cruising Politics: Sexuality, Solidarity and Modularity after Gezi; Emrah Y?ld?z 9. Urban Utopias and How They Fell Apart: The Political Ecology of Gezi Park?; ?m?r Harman?ah 10. In Lieu of Conclusion: Rallying for Gezi, or Metaphors of Aporia and Empowerment; Spyros A. SofosThis volume is a collection of valuable and comprehensive chapters analyzing the Gezi protests in terms of neo-liberal policies, privatization, authoritarianism, public space, the resistance of bodies against the contemporary regime and its policies, and the social and political outcomes of the protests. Each chapter contains important points and various aspects that concentrate on the protests dynamics and processes, even if they are not systematically connected. (Bet?l Baki, Southeastern Europe, Vol. 40 (2), 2016)

Umut ?zk1r1ml1 is Professor of Political Science at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, Sweden. He is also a Visiting Professor at The Middle East Centre (MEC), London School of Economics and The Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT), University of Sussex; Honorary Professor in Europe, Nationalism and Globalizatl³n