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Challenging neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, from private discontent to collective class action, Efe Can Gürcan, Efe Peker

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-193) and index

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Challenging neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park

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Efe Can Gürcan, Efe Peker

Social movements and transformation

from private discontent to collective class action

In 'Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park', Gürcan and Peker focus on Turkey's struggle against 'neoliberalism with Islamic characteristics', and ask what material, objective, and subjective factors account for the emergence and persistence of this robust protest cycle. The authors also study the effect the movement has had on the development of collective leadership mechanisms and political consciousness that can potentially alter the configuration of social forces in the country. Through a Marxist political sociological perspective, the authors shed light on the class basis, conjunctural underpinnings, organizational forms, and political expressions of the Gezi Park Protests as an exceptional cycle of mass mobilization in neoliberal times.--, Provided by publisher

1. New Social Movement Theories and Their Discontents -- 2. Debunking the Myth of 'Middle Classes' : The Class-Structural Background of the GPPs -- 3. 'Neoliberalism with Islamic Characteristics' : Political Economic and Cultural Conjuncture of the GPPs -- 4. Organizational-Strategic Aspects of the GPPs : Leadership and Resistance Repertoires -- 5. Forging Political Consciousness at Gezi : The Case of 'Disproportionate Intelligence' -- 6. Looking Ahead : 'Gezi Spirit' and its Aftermath