Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements

1. Front Matter

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2. Prelude: Occupy Turkey

   • Altug Yalcintas

   Pages 1-5

3. Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey

   • Altug Yalcintas

   Pages 6-29

4. Political Potential of Sarcasm: Cynicism in Civil Resentment

   • Secil Deren van het Hof

   Pages 30-47

5. Vernacular Utopias: Mimetic Performances as Humour in Gezi Park and on Bayındır Street

   • Utku Balaban

   Pages 48-74

6. Gezi Protests and the LGBT Rights Movement: A Relation in Motion

   • Ayşe Deniz Ünan

   Pages 75-94

7. ‘Just a Handful of Looters!’: A Comparative Analysis of Government Discourses on the Summer Disorders in the United Kingdom and Turkey

   • Boran Ali Mercan, Erhan Özşeker

   Pages 95-115

8. Epilogue: Joy Is the Laughter of the Resistance

   • Altug Yalcintas

   Pages 116-119

9. Back Matter

   Pages 120-123

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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.

• Occupy
• Turkey
• social movements
• Gezi
• creativity
• humour
• protest
• discourse
• Government
• nature
• Protest
• utopia

• Department of Economic, Ankara University, Turkey

  Altug Yalcintas

Utku Balaban, Ankara University, Turkey Secil van het Hof, Akdeniz University, Turkey Boran Ali Mercan, Ankara University, Turkey and University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Erhan Öz?eker, Galatasaray University, Turkey Ay?e Deniz Ünan, University of Essex, UK Altug Yalcintas, Ankara University, Turkey

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