The Politics of the Gezi Park Resistance

Against Memory and Identity

Bibliographic Data

ID4438124
AuthorsBülent Eken (corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume113
Issue2
Pages427-436
Publication date2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-2644212
OpenAlexW2319180037
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited6

Eken's essay contends that the mass insurrection that resulted in a fifteen-day occupation of Gezi Park in Istanbul in June 2013 can be seen as a response to the ongoing implementation of new forms of social control in Turkey. Itself the result of a process of convergence with global capitalism, the new regime of domination capitalizes on culture as a site for monitoring social desire. In Turkey, "memory" and "minorities" emerged as two privileged topics of cultural discourse through which the state seeks to achieve real political effects. The Gezi resistance is best seen as the autonomous organization of social desire against the politics of these cultural discourses. It is mainly in its embodiment of this antagonistic, anticapitalist desire that the value of the Gezi Resistance lies

Aesthetics · Capitalism · Convergence (economics) · Economic growth · Identity (music) · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Value (mathematics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society

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