Challenging neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park : from private discontent to collective class action / Efe Can Gürcan and Efe Peker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gürcan, Efe Can, author.

Peker, Efe, author.

Series:

Social movements and transformation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Turkey.

Social movements.

Protest movements--Turkey.

Protest movements.

Neoliberalism--Turkey.

Neoliberalism.

Turkey--Politics and government--1980-.

Turkey.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

202 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

In Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, Gürcan and Peker focus on Turkey's struggle against "neoliberalism with Islamic characteristics", and ask what material, objective, and subjective factors account for the emergence and persistence of this robust protest cycle. The authors also study the effect the movement has had on the development of collective leadership mechanisms and political consciousness that can potentially alter the configuration of social forces in the country. Through a Marxist political sociological perspective, the authors shed light on the class basis, conjunctural underpinnings, organizational forms, and political expressions of the Gezi Park Protests as an exceptional cycle of mass mobilization in neoliberal times. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 New Social Movement Theories and Their Discontents 13

2 Debunking the Myth of "Middle Classes": The Class-Structural Background of the GPPs 33

3 "Neoliberalism with Islamic Characteristics": Political, Economic, and Cultural Conjuncture of the GPPs 59

4 Organizational-Strategic Aspects of the GPPs: Leadership and Resistance Repertoires 85

5 Forging Political Consciousness at Gezi: The Case of "Disproportionate Intelligence" 113

6 Looking Ahead; "Gezi Spirit" and Its Aftermath 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137469014

1137469013

OCLC:

885148322