Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey

Umut Özkırımlı is Professor of Political Science at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, Sweden. He is also a Visiting Professor at The Middle East Centre (MEC), London School of Economics and The Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT), University of Sussex; Honorary Professor in Europe, Nationalism and Globalization at the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES), University of Copenhagen; and a Senior Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University. He is the author of Theories of Nationalism (editions 2000, 2010, 2017); Contemporary Debates on Nationalism (2005); Tormented by History (with Spyros A. Sofos, 2008); and editor of The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey (2014). He is series editor of “Islam and Nationalism” (with Spyros A. Sofos). Özkırımlı's Theories of Nationalism has been adopted as a textbook in over 80 courses in approximately 30 countries across the world; and his books have been translated into Turkish, Greek, Albanian, Persian, Arabic and Chinese so far. He is also a regular contributor to opendemocracy, Huffington Post and al-Jazeera.

“This volume is a collection of valuable and comprehensive chapters analyzing the Gezi protests in terms of neo-liberal policies, privatization, authoritarianism, public space, the resistance of bodies against the contemporary regime and its policies, and the social and political outcomes of the protests. Each chapter contains important points and various aspects that concentrate on the protests’ dynamics and processes, even if they are not systematically connected.” (Betül Baki, Southeastern Europe, Vol. 40 (2), 2016)

• Preface by Judith Butler 1. Introduction; Umut Özk?r?ml? 2. A Moment of Elation: The Gezi Protests/Resistance and the Fading of the AKP Project; Soli Özel 3. Brand Turkey and the Gezi Protests: Authoritarianism In Flux, Law, and Neoliberalism; Asl? I?s?z 4. Gülenism: The Middle Way or Official Ideology?; Cihan Tu?al 5. Can the 'Spirit Of Gezi' Transform Progressive Politics in Turkey?; Onur Bak?ner 6. White Turks, Black Turks, and Negroes: The Politics of Polarization; Michael Ferguson 7. Occupy Gezi as Politics of the Body; Zeynep Gambetti 8. Cruising Politics: Sexuality, Solidarity and Modularity after Gezi; Emrah Y?ld?z 9. Urban Utopias and How They Fell Apart: The Political Ecology of Gezi Park?; Ömür Harman?ah 10. In Lieu of Conclusion: Rallying for Gezi, or Metaphors of Aporia and Empowerment; Spyros A. Sofos