Redefining the political : youth experiences of collective action in Turkey /

Redefining the political : youth experiences of collective action in Turkey / Pınar Gümüş Mantu.

This book offers an analysis of the complex and shifting conditions of being young as well as the new ways in which young people engage in politics in Turkey. It is based on a closer examination of young peoples participation in the Gezi protests in 2013. From the perspective of cultural sociology,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Gümüş Mantu, Pınar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2023]
Series:Kulturelle Figurationen.
Subjects:
Youth protest movements > Turkey > History > 21st century.
Turkey > Politics and government > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Research Questions, Approach, Aims
  • 1.2 The Structure of the Book
  • References
  • 2 Methodology
  • 2.1 Qualitative Methodology
  • 2.1.1 Ethnographic Approach
  • 2.2 Fieldwork
  • 2.2.1 Preliminary Field Research
  • 2.2.2 In-Depth Ethnographic Interviews
  • 2.3 Data Analysis
  • 2.3.1 Main Themes: Protest, Youth and the Political
  • 2.4 Reflexive Notes on the Research Process
  • 2.5 Limitations of the Fieldwork
  • References
  • Part I Youth in Collective Action
  • 3 Studying Youth and Social Movements
  • 3.1 Social Movements
  • 3.1.1 Cultural Approach: Thoughts, Emotions, Morals, and the Performative Perspective
  • 3.1.2 Individuals and Collective Identity
  • 3.2 Youth and Social Movements
  • 3.2.1 Youth Collective Action in Turkey: From the 1960s to the Post-1980 Period
  • 3.2.2 Youth in the Global Wave of Protests in 2011-2014
  • 3.2.3 Youth in the Gezi Protests
  • 3.3 Conclusion
  • References
  • 4 Youth in the Gezi Protests: Background, the Gezi Spirit, and Aftermath
  • 4.1 Refreshing the Memory: Before the Gezi Protests
  • 4.1.1 Feeling Unhappy and Oppressed: The Socio-Political Context, Earlier Movements
  • 4.1.2 Neoliberal Rule, Urban Regeneration, and Authoritarian Interventions in Everyday Life
  • 4.2 Reasons for and Modes of Participation
  • 4.2.1 Violent Treatment of the Protesters as "Moral Shock"
  • 4.2.2 Spontenaous Participation
  • 4.3 Camping Out at the Park: Rituals of Solidarity, Emotions, and the Gezi Spirit
  • 4.3.1 Solidarity as the Ground for Collective Identity
  • 4.3.2 Practicing Utopias
  • 4.3.3 The Gezi Spirit
  • 4.4 After Gezi: Transformation, Political Consciousness, and Disappointment
  • 4.4.1 Transformation in Relations and a Developing Sense of Community
  • 4.4.2 Increasing Political Interest and Consciousness
  • 4.4.3 The Individual Level: Networking, Making Decisions, Taking Action
  • 4.4.4 Critical Views, Disappointment, and Traumatic Experience
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II Youth as Experience
  • 5 Studying Youth in Social Context
  • 5.1 Conceptualizing Youth
  • 5.1.1 Youth as a Social Relationship
  • 5.1.2 Studying Young People-The Concept of Generation
  • 5.1.3 Being Young in Late Modernity: Some Reflections
  • 5.2 Being Young in Turkey in the 2000s: Socio-Economic Circumstances and Political Atmosphere
  • 5.2.1 Generational Characteristics of the Gezi Protests
  • 5.3 Conclusion
  • References
  • 6 The Meanings of Being Young: Potential, Limitations, Mission, and Action
  • 6.1 Being Young: Positive Potential and Capabilities
  • 6.2 Being Young: Hierarchies, Limitations, and Obstacles
  • 6.2.1 Generational Conflicts, Social Pressure, and Gender
  • 6.2.2 From Education to (Un)employment: Anxiety about the Future
  • 6.2.3 Being Young in Turkey vs. Being Young in Europe
  • 6.3 Being Young and Being Political: Mission, and Power
  • 6.3.1 Potential for Transformation and Political Action

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