Leonidas Karakatsanis is the Assistant Director at the British Institute at Ankara, and author of Turkish-Greek Relations. Rapprochement, Civil Society and the Politics of Friendship. His work focuses on peace and reconciliation, civil society, minorities, and the role of affects in contentious politics.Nikolaos Papadogiannis is a Teaching Fellow and Co-Director of the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include travel, youth cultures, gender, migration, emotions and European identities

In this edited volume, Leonidas Karakatsanis and Nikolaos Papadogiannis have brought together more than a dozen scholars who have been contributing immensely to different fields of social sciences for over a decade. This is not just another book on the emergence of nationalism in these countries or their similarities and differences. This book sheds light on understudied but extremely important issues such as the ‘intersection’ between the politics and cultures of the Left in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus...All in all, I would say this has been one of the most original books I have read on these three countries.Bahar Baser, Conventry University in Journal of Contemporary European Studies

• Introduction, Performing the Left in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus Part 1 Disposession and the Left/ Performing memory and loss 1. Inhabiting the memory of political incarceration in Greece: two women's narratives from the Civil War and the Junta 2. Surrogate apologies, sublated differences: contemporary visions of post-national futures in Turkey under the spectre of the Left 3. Repositioned/ re-signififed: Echoes of violence, aporias of solidarity between Cyprus, Turkey and Greece Part 2 Contested performances/ art as politicising culture 4. Sounds of resistance: performing the political in the Kurdish music scene 5. Encounters betwixt and between: Contemporary art curatorial performances and the Left in the republic of Cyprus 6. Lost images, silenced past: rethinking the film practices of Genc Sinema (Young Cinema) from 1968 to 1971 Part 3 Cultures of the Left between 'traditions' and 'modernities' 7. The Left of the everyday: Cypriot narratives of indigenous modernization, geopolitics and visions of emancipation 8. 'We are and we remain Greeks'. The radically patriotic discourse in Pyrsos magazine in the GDR 1961-1968 9. Collective and counter Memory: The 'invention of resistance' in the rhetoric of the Greek and Turkish Left, 1951-1971 Part 4 Performing Space, un/doing boundaries 10. Revolutionary ethics: relations between leftist militants and Gecekondu dwellers in Istanbul, 1975-1980 11. Radicalising no-man's land: The occupy Buffer Zone Movement in Cyprus 12. Performing 'culture', becoming Left: Greek university students in pursuit of 'autonomy' Part 5 Beyond Concluding 13. Across Borders and Generations: Remembering and Imaging the Left - An interview with Foti Benlisoy and Nikolaos Moudouros 14. The Left beyond concluding: performance and culture as critique

Leonidas Karakatsanis is the Assistant Director at the British Institute at Ankara, and author of Turkish-Greek Relations. Rapprochement, Civil Society and the Politics of Friendship. His work focuses on peace and reconciliation, civil society, minorities, and the role of affects in contentious politics.Nikolaos Papadogiannis is a Teaching Fellow and Co-Director of the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include travel, youth cultures, gender, migration, emotions and European identities

In this edited volume, Leonidas Karakatsanis and Nikolaos Papadogiannis have brought together more than a dozen scholars who have been contributing immensely to different fields of social sciences for over a decade. This is not just another book on the emergence of nationalism in these countries or their similarities and differences. This book sheds light on understudied but extremely important issues such as the ‘intersection’ between the politics and cultures of the Left in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus...All in all, I would say this has been one of the most original books I have read on these three countries.Bahar Baser, Conventry University in Journal of Contemporary European Studies

• Introduction, Performing the Left in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus Part 1 Disposession and the Left/ Performing memory and loss 1. Inhabiting the memory of political incarceration in Greece: two women's narratives from the Civil War and the Junta 2. Surrogate apologies, sublated differences: contemporary visions of post-national futures in Turkey under the spectre of the Left 3. Repositioned/ re-signififed: Echoes of violence, aporias of solidarity between Cyprus, Turkey and Greece Part 2 Contested performances/ art as politicising culture 4. Sounds of resistance: performing the political in the Kurdish music scene 5. Encounters betwixt and between: Contemporary art curatorial performances and the Left in the republic of Cyprus 6. Lost images, silenced past: rethinking the film practices of Genc Sinema (Young Cinema) from 1968 to 1971 Part 3 Cultures of the Left between 'traditions' and 'modernities' 7. The Left of the everyday: Cypriot narratives of indigenous modernization, geopolitics and visions of emancipation 8. 'We are and we remain Greeks'. The radically patriotic discourse in Pyrsos magazine in the GDR 1961-1968 9. Collective and counter Memory: The 'invention of resistance' in the rhetoric of the Greek and Turkish Left, 1951-1971 Part 4 Performing Space, un/doing boundaries 10. Revolutionary ethics: relations between leftist militants and Gecekondu dwellers in Istanbul, 1975-1980 11. Radicalising no-man's land: The occupy Buffer Zone Movement in Cyprus 12. Performing 'culture', becoming Left: Greek university students in pursuit of 'autonomy' Part 5 Beyond Concluding 13. Across Borders and Generations: Remembering and Imaging the Left - An interview with Foti Benlisoy and Nikolaos Moudouros 14. The Left beyond concluding: performance and culture as critique

Leonidas Karakatsanis is the Assistant Director at the British Institute at Ankara, and author of Turkish-Greek Relations. Rapprochement, Civil Society and the Politics of Friendship. His work focuses on peace and reconciliation, civil society, minorities, and the role of affects in contentious politics.Nikolaos Papadogiannis is a Teaching Fellow and Co-Director of the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include travel, youth cultures, gender, migration, emotions and European identities

In this edited volume, Leonidas Karakatsanis and Nikolaos Papadogiannis have brought together more than a dozen scholars who have been contributing immensely to different fields of social sciences for over a decade. This is not just another book on the emergence of nationalism in these countries or their similarities and differences. This book sheds light on understudied but extremely important issues such as the ‘intersection’ between the politics and cultures of the Left in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus...All in all, I would say this has been one of the most original books I have read on these three countries.Bahar Baser, Conventry University in Journal of Contemporary European Studies

• Introduction, Performing the Left in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus Part 1 Disposession and the Left/ Performing memory and loss 1. Inhabiting the memory of political incarceration in Greece: two women's narratives from the Civil War and the Junta 2. Surrogate apologies, sublated differences: contemporary visions of post-national futures in Turkey under the spectre of the Left 3. Repositioned/ re-signififed: Echoes of violence, aporias of solidarity between Cyprus, Turkey and Greece Part 2 Contested performances/ art as politicising culture 4. Sounds of resistance: performing the political in the Kurdish music scene 5. Encounters betwixt and between: Contemporary art curatorial performances and the Left in the republic of Cyprus 6. Lost images, silenced past: rethinking the film practices of Genc Sinema (Young Cinema) from 1968 to 1971 Part 3 Cultures of the Left between 'traditions' and 'modernities' 7. The Left of the everyday: Cypriot narratives of indigenous modernization, geopolitics and visions of emancipation 8. 'We are and we remain Greeks'. The radically patriotic discourse in Pyrsos magazine in the GDR 1961-1968 9. Collective and counter Memory: The 'invention of resistance' in the rhetoric of the Greek and Turkish Left, 1951-1971 Part 4 Performing Space, un/doing boundaries 10. Revolutionary ethics: relations between leftist militants and Gecekondu dwellers in Istanbul, 1975-1980 11. Radicalising no-man's land: The occupy Buffer Zone Movement in Cyprus 12. Performing 'culture', becoming Left: Greek university students in pursuit of 'autonomy' Part 5 Beyond Concluding 13. Across Borders and Generations: Remembering and Imaging the Left - An interview with Foti Benlisoy and Nikolaos Moudouros 14. The Left beyond concluding: performance and culture as critique