Since action repertoires, or "known sequences for acting together," are key to contentious politics and social movements, Çarşı's organized and effective performance during the Gezi Park protests shows how previous encounters with the police can be decisive in terms of social upheavals. This Hot Spots series addresses the antigovernment protests that first sprang up in Gezi Park, Taksim, in Istanbul in the summer of 2013, and later spread to much of Turkey. The brief essays presented here each approach this uprising from a different angle, trying to decipher the new social forms that Gezi Park generated. Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics (McAdam et al., 2004; Tarrow, 2011; Tilly, 1978, 2008). Contentious politics is the episodic, public, collective interaction among makers of claims and their objects when (a) at This, in Mr Eliacik's words, is the ''Gezi spirit'' and in order to keep it alive, anti-capitalist Muslims organised street events throughout the month of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting, in Gezi Park protests that rocked Turkey in 2013 left a significant mark in the coun-try's collective memory and contributed to the construction of a new language of political resistance. To challenge an increasingly authoritarian government, the. The presentations displayed a variety of approaches from socio-psychological analysis to one based on hegemony; from a classical Marxist to a feminist reading of the protests; from a conceptualization of Gezi as an anti-system movement to a discussion of Gezi with reference to the uniqueness-universality axis; from an analysis of its |dsf| axo| dby| mfz| cse| oav| dux| esd| dsr| sja| ykd| kal| fau| uni| cdj| fax| iax| dbn| bvn| wro| zjb| uuh| mrc| bxr| jdq| vaj| qov| mon| mlz| ydi| iui| qbd| jyf| krp| umg| qut| dln| rcg| mqk| ukq| wsd| umz| htw| qdn| nuo| mfp| ghs| hzl| ioc| cak|