Emergency in protest : young people's politics in the Gezi protests

dc.contributor.authorGümüs, Pinar
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T11:25:18Z
dc.date.available2016-05-30T12:06:01Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T11:25:18Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractProtests often indicate social states of emergency. Protesters no longer agree with the existing situation and the way their lives are regulated; therefore, they demand immediate change. The Gezi Protests, in which people from various social, political, and class backgrounds went to the streets to voice their dissent, certainly reflected a state of emergency in Turkey. Young people, often referred to as members of the country s post-1980 apolitical generation within public discourse, unexpectedly gathered on the streets and acted as the frontrunners of this mass movement. What is more, their way of protesting through creative performances and humor effectively increased their visibility. Drawing upon the concept of emergency, and guided by a cultural performative approach, this article focuses on young people s experiences of protest. It is a study of the reasons and meanings behind young people s participation in the protests, as well as of values such as trust, solidarity, and collectivity upon which their action was grounded. My findings are based on qualitative field research, i.e., in-depth interviews conducted with young participants of the Gezi protests in İstanbul. The investigation is driven by the questions of how young people describe the notion of the political in relation to trust, solidarity, and collectivity, and how these diverse ways of describing the political through practices foreshadow a new understanding of the political, which gained momentum from the state of emergency of the Gezi Protestsen
dc.identifier.issn2366-4142
dc.identifier.urihttp://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-120699
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/7602
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-7036
dc.language.isoende_DE
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectGezi protestsde_DE
dc.subjectsocial movementde_DE
dc.subjectpoliticalde_DE
dc.subjectyouth in Turkeyde_DE
dc.subjectemergencyde_DE
dc.subject.ddcddc:320de_DE
dc.titleEmergency in protest : young people's politics in the Gezi protestsen
dc.typearticlede_DE
dcterms.isPartOf2856008-5de_DE
local.affiliationGCSC International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.opus.fachgebietGießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaftende_DE
local.opus.id12069
local.opus.instituteInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.source.journaltitleOn_culture: the open journal for the study of culture
local.source.volume1

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