CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Ugur, Dolunay |
|---|---|
| Title | THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW FIELD IN THE POLITICAL ARENA OF TURKEY: THE CASE OF GEZI RESISTANCE |
| Summary | This study focuses on the question of how cooperation emerges from internally conflicting groups within an umbrella movement with a plethora of distinct movements. With its emphasis on solidarity in a single movement, social movements literature falls short of explaining this question. Even though the approaches that try to understand social movements through field theory offer to fill this gap, applying field theory alone misses how different groups within a movement cooperate. I address this theoretical question through the occupation of Gezi Park. The importance of this specific phase of the Gezi Resistance lies in its being as a new social space in the political arena of Turkey in which quite different protesters resisted together for the first time. To understand how these diversified, even historically conflicting groups cooperated and formed some sort of solidarity, I adopt the framework of regarding social movements as fields. Considering this occupation phase as a field of both contention and cooperation, I use Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, practice, and field to have a better understanding than social movement theories give. My analyses demonstrate that the solidarity among varied dissenters in Gezi Park was possible with the help of the social space in which movement-consistent practices were acted through negotiations, rather than with the help of a common interest or claim. |
| Supervisor | Vedres, Balázs; Kowalski, Alexandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/ugur_dolunay.pdf |
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