Gezi at Ten

Upon the tenth anniversary of the Gezi protests, the book takes upon the task of critically re-examining the social uprising of June 2013 in Turkey by compensating for blind spots in the academic corpus hitherto generated. This volume braves into subjects largely neglected by the extant scholarship, in particular, the organizational aspects of the Gezi upheaval, which bear heavily on the course of social and political affairs that has since taken dramatic turns. By delving into the question of political practice, whether on the part of the state, the government or the opposition, the book re-evaluates how the emergent collective momentum was managed by the contesting parties. In other words, the volume concentrates on the multifaceted political organizing of social forces in conflict both during and in the aftermath of the protests.

Contributors are: Athina Arampatzi, Gökhan Atılgan, Özgür Balkılıç, Selin Dingiloğlu, Antoine Dolcerocca, Çağlar Dölek, Kürşad Ertuğrul, Ufuk Gürbüzdal, Ezgi Kaya Hayatsever, Eren Karaca, Sebla Ayşe Kazancı, Arca Özçoban, Ezgi Pınar, Sungur Savran, Ozan Siso, Aylin Topal, Fatih Yaşlı and Adem Yeşilyurt.

Ozan Siso is a researcher of international political economy and theories of state. After attaining dual Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and French and Francophone Studies from Pennsylvania State University, Siso received his Master’s degree in Equality Studies from University College Dublin.

Ufuk Gürbüzdal is an independent filmmaker and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University.

Eren Karaca is a lecturer at TED University and Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University after attaining her BS and MS degrees from Middle East Technical University. Her scholarly interests lie in the fields of social policy, health policies, political economy and state-capital relations.

"The authors have written a book that is pleasant to read and represents the fruit of years of scientific research already published in important journals, especially about the analysis of inequalities (Clementi and Schettino 2015; Clementi et al. 2017; Clementi, Molini, and Schettino 2018; Schettino and Khan 2020). However, this book is also an attempt to keep alive a critique of political economy by first and foremost following the teachings of Karl Marx. The attentive reader is thus prompted, as he or she reaches the work’s conclusions, to grapple with the categories of Marxian dialectics."

Stefano Lucarelli, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Review in Political Economy (2023).