CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Altinok, Berat Uygar |
|---|---|
| Title | Constituent Power and the Gezi Movement: The Competing Discourses on Who the People are |
| Summary | This thesis is an evaluation of the June 2013 Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, from the perspective of the constituent power. It seeks to answer questions such as “Can constituent power manifests itself as a social movement? How can we identify the constituent component in the practice of social movements? What is the relationship between claim-making and discourse-establishing mechanisms in the act of constituting?” in the context of the Gezi Movement. In order to do so, the thesis focuses on, first, the processes in which a local concern transformed into a nation-wide protest; second, the Schmittian reading of the Justice and Development Party’s discourse on popular sovereignty; finally, the Gezi Movement’s discourse of an alternative politics in relation to governmental discourse. The main argument is that Hardt and Negri’s conceptualization of the multitude can serve as a basis for understanding the constituent practices in social movements, especially in the Gezi Movement. |
| Supervisor | nenad dimitrijević |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/altinok_berat-uygar.pdf |
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