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?’
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Preface by Judith Butler 1. Introduction; Umut Özk?r?ml? 2. A Moment of Elation: The Gezi Protests/Resistance and the Fading of the AKP Project; Soli Özel 3. Brand Turkey and the Gezi Protests: Authoritarianism In Flux, Law, and Neoliberalism; Asl? I?s?z 4. Gülenism: 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?; Ömür Harman?ah 10. In Lieu of Conclusion: Rallying for Gezi, or Metaphors of Aporia and Empowerment; Spyros A. Sofos
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Umut Özkırımlı 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 Globalization at the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES), University of Copenhagen; and a Senior Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University. He is the author of Theories of Nationalism (editions 2000, 2010, 2017); Contemporary Debates on Nationalism (2005); Tormented by History (with Spyros A. Sofos, 2008); and editor of The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey (2014). He is series editor of “Islam and Nationalism” (with Spyros A. Sofos). Özkırımlı’s Theories of Nationalism has been adopted as a textbook in over 80 courses in approximately 30 countries across the world; and his books have been translated into Turkish, Greek, Albanian, Persian, Arabic and Chinese so far. He is also a regular contributor to opendemocracy, Huffington Post and al-Jazeera.