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Informationen zum Autor Cristiano Bee Cristiano Bee is Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University (UK). Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Kadir Has University, Turkey and Marie Curie Fellow at the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, where he was principal investigator in the research project 'The Europeanisation of the organised civil society in Turkey. The case of youth organisations in the prospect of the European integration'. He is author of Active Citizenship in Europe . Practices and Demands in the EU , Italy , Turkey and the UK (Palgrave 2017). Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey. He received his PhD and MA degrees at the University of Warwick, UK. Some of his books are Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey (2013); Islam, Migration and Integration: The Age of Securitization (2012). Klappentext This book is a reflection on current debates about the historical determinants of civic and political participation in Turkey, traditional and alternative means of political and civic mobilisation, and political behaviour. It originally published as a special issue in Turkish Studies . Zusammenfassung This book is a reflection on current debates about the historical determinants of civic and political participation in Turkey, traditional and alternative means of political and civic mobilisation, and political behaviour. It originally published as a special issue in Turkish Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Conventional versus non-conventional political participation in Turkey: dimensions, means, and consequences 2. A participatory generation? The generational and social class bases of political activism in Turkey 3. Voting Behavior of the Youth in Turkey: What Drives Involvement in or Causes Alienation from Conventional Political Participation? 4. Between Gezi Park and Kamp Armen: the intersectional activism of leftist Armenian youths in Istanbul 5. Negotiating ‘the political’: a closer look at the components of young people’s politics emerging from the Gezi Protests 6. The weakest link or the magic stick?: Turkish activists’ perceptions on the scope and strength of digital activism 7. Europeanization of civil society in Turkey: legacy of the #Occupygezi movement 8. Youth activists and occupygezi : patterns of social change in public policy and in civic and political activism in Turkey 9. Stand-in as a performative repertoire of action ...
