Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements - Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Utku Balaban, Ankara University, TurkeySecil van het Hof, Akdeniz University, TurkeyBoran Ali Mercan, Ankara University, Turkey and University of Kent at Canterbury, UKErhan Öz?eker, Galatasaray University, TurkeyAy?e Deniz Ünan, University of Essex, UKAltug Yalcintas, Ankara University, Turkey Klappentext This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power. Zusammenfassung This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey! 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians! film-makers! social scientists and other creative individuals! out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests! rather than seizure of political power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelude: Occupy Turkey; Altug Yalcintas 1. Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey; Altug Yalcintas 2. Political Potential of Sarcasm: Cynicism in Civil Resentment; Secil van het Hof 3. Vernacular Utopias: Mimetic Performances as Humour on Gezi Park and Bay?nd?r Street; Utku Balaban 4. Gezi Protests and the LGBT Rights Movement: A Relation in Motion; Ay?e Deniz Ünan 5. "Just a Handful of Looters!": A Comparative Analysis of Government Discourses on the Summer Disorders in the UK and Turkey; Boran Ali Mercan and Erhan Öz?eker Epilogue: Joy is the Laughter of the Resistance; Altug Yalcintas

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Prelude: Occupy Turkey; Altug Yalcintas 1. Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey; Altug Yalcintas 2. Political Potential of Sarcasm: Cynicism in Civil Resentment; Secil van het Hof 3. Vernacular Utopias: Mimetic Performances as Humour on Gezi Park and Bay?nd?r Street; Utku Balaban 4. Gezi Protests and the LGBT Rights Movement: A Relation in Motion; Ay?e Deniz Ünan 5. "Just a Handful of Looters!": A Comparative Analysis of Government Discourses on the Summer Disorders in the UK and Turkey; Boran Ali Mercan and Erhan Öz?eker Epilogue: Joy is the Laughter of the Resistance; Altug Yalcintas

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• Authors: Altug Yalcintas
• Assisted by: Yalcintas (Editor), A Yalcintas (Editor), A. Yalcintas (Editor), Altug Yalcintas (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2015
• EAN: 9781137473622
• ISBN: 978-1-137-47362-2
• No. of pages: 123
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; C, Sociology, Political Science, Arts, Political Sociology, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Communication Studies, Sociology, general, Public Administration, Public Policy, Political science and theory, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Political Communication, Political structure and processes