Gezi at Ten

Domination, Opposition and Political Organization

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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.
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2024
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Ozan Siso is a researcher of international political economy and theories of state. After attaining dual Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and French and Francophone Studies from Pennsylvania State University, Siso received his Master’s degree in Equality Studies from University College Dublin.

Ufuk Gürbüzdal is an independent filmmaker and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University.

Eren Karaca is a lecturer at TED University and Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University after attaining her BS and MS degrees from Middle East Technical University. Her scholarly interests lie in the fields of social policy, health policies, political economy and state-capital relations.
"The authors have written a book that is pleasant to read and represents the fruit of years of scientific research already published in important journals, especially about the analysis of inequalities (Clementi and Schettino 2015; Clementi et al. 2017; Clementi, Molini, and Schettino 2018; Schettino and Khan 2020). However, this book is also an attempt to keep alive a critique of political economy by first and foremost following the teachings of Karl Marx. The attentive reader is thus prompted, as he or she reaches the work’s conclusions, to grapple with the categories of Marxian dialectics."

Stefano Lucarelli, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Review in Political Economy (2023).
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

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This volume will provide a handbook for scholars, students and activists alike. It will especially resonate with scholars of international political economy, political science and social movement studies.
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