Just heard that the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology has a special focus: Gezi Protests. That will definitely be a good scholarly and ethnographic source on the subject. But check out the contents below. Not one specific article you will find on new media usage, which was obviously an essential part of Protests. Unfortunately, (mass) media still not seen as a direct object of research in our otherwise well educated circle of anthropologists. After some special and cordial requests, I have started to work on an ethnographic account of new media usage and citizen journalism networks during Gezi Protests. Hopefully I will submit my article on January, 2014 and will be available by May 2014 at latest…
Here is the material:
Posts in This Series
Editorial—An Uprising on the Verge of Comparison
by Umut Yıldırım
Editorial—Breaking Memory, Spoiling Memorization: The Taksim Protests in Istanbul
by Yael Navaro-Yashin
Masculinized Power, Queered Resistance
by Salih Can Açıksöz and Zeynep Korkman
The What of Occupation: “You Took Our Cemetery, You Won’t Have Our Park!”
by Alice von Bieberstein and Nora Tataryan
The Politics of Visibility
by Zeynep Gambetti
On the Fantasy of Dispossession
by Eirini Avramopoulou
On the Joy and Melancholy of Politics
by Erdem Evren
The Politics of Humor and Humor as Politics during Turkey’s Gezi Park Protests
by Seçil Dağtas
A Look at Gezi Park from Turkey’s Kurdistan
by Fırat Bozcalı and Çağrı Yoltar
Kissing the Mahrem in Ankara
by Sertaç Sehlikoğlu
Improbable Encounters: Marching for Lice in Kadıköy
by Marlene Schafers and Çiçek Ilengiz
Protest and the Limits of the Body
by Ayse Parla
Suspending the Limits of the Sayable . . .
by Banu Karaca
What is Queer about Gezi?
by Aslı Zengin
Nefes: Notes on Breath
by Umut Yıldırım
Shadows of the 1980 Coup and the Syrian War: Resisting in Antakya
by Yael Navaro-Yashin
The Soil Does Not Have History
by Aleksandar Sopov
“Ghosts” of a Situationist Protest, Deadly Edges of Kemalism
by Halide Velioğlu
Gezi Protest Visuals
by Emrah Gökdemir
Related posts:
Saturday Night in #OccupyGezi. Will be hard to justify Osman Erden’s detainment by Turkish authorities…
the 3rd day begins in Turkish style Occupy Act at the Gezi Parkı in İstanbul #DirenGeziParkı #OccupyGezi
AKP MPs walk out of US reception over envoy’s critical Gezi remarks. An #OccupyGezi roundup
The standing man. Yet another form of civic action related to #OccupyGezi
Barbaros Şansal among 40 detained tonight Police show of force in Taksim… #OccupyGezi
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