In the Aftermath of Gezi

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. In the Aftermath of Gezi: Introduction

   • Oscar Hemer, Hans-Åke Persson

   Pages 1-16

3. What Emerged in the Gezi Park Occupation in Istanbul?

   • Asu Aksoy

   Pages 17-34

4. The Politics of Protest

   • Anita Sengupta

   Pages 35-54

5. Violent Communication and the Tyranny of the Majority

   • Ronald Stade

   Pages 55-64

6. Alone in the City: Gezi as a Moment of Transgression

   • Spyros Sofos

   Pages 65-85

7. At the Intersection of Competing Modernizations: Gezi as a Litmus Test for the Public Sphere

   • Hikmet Kırık

   Pages 87-107

8. It is Too Dangerous to be an Individual in Turkey

   • Jakob Lindgaard

   Pages 109-132

9. Gezi in the Center and Periphery the Protests as Communicated by the Turkish Media

   • Erliza López Pedersen, Marco Zoppi

   Pages 133-159

10. The Gezi Movement Under a Connective Action Framework: Enhancing New Forms of Citizenship via Social Media

    • Stavroula Chrona, Cristiano Bee

    Pages 161-185

11. Activist Citizenship and the Dramaturgy of Social Change

    • Thomas Tufte

    Pages 187-200

12. Epilogue: #Occupygezi Movement and Right to the City

    • Ayhan Kaya

    Pages 201-215

13. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219

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This edited volume addresses various aspects of social and political development in Turkey and the latter’s role within a global context. Paradigmatically and theoretically, it is situated in the realm of communication and/for social change. The chapters thread together to present a fresh and innovative study that explores an array of issues related to the Gezi protests and their aftermath by scholars and activists from Scandinavia, Turkey and India. Through its thorough analysis of the government’s repressive policy and the communication strategies of resistance, during the protests as well as in the dramatic on-going aftermath, the volume has wide international and interdisciplinary appeal, suitable for those with an interest in globalization, communication and media, politics, and social change.

• social development
• political development
• Turkey
• global context
• communication for social change
• Istanbul
• Gezi protests

• School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  Oscar Hemer

• Department of Communication, Business Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

  Hans-Åke Persson

Oscar Hemer is Professor in Journalistic and Literary Creation at Malmö University, Sweden, and co-director of Ørecomm Centre for Communication and Glocal Change.
 
Hans-Åke Persson is Professor in Modern European History at Roskilde University in Denmark.

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