This article is based on an ethnographic investigation of the Gezi Park events in 2013. Starting from the much acknowledged characteristics of Gezi as being its cultural and political pluralism and its commitment to non-violence, in this article we are engaging with two interlinked questions: How has the plurality of participants and orientations been possible to attain, and how could this pluralism be contained without any major conflict at Gezi? We propose to provide an answer by focusing on the manners of everyday life at Gezi Park during the time of dissidence, which we conceptualize as 'manner of contention'. It was the manner of contention that characterized the specific ways in which contentious politics took place at Gezi and prevented the formation of clashes among the plurality of contenders. The ethnographic research delineates at least 4 components of manner of contention in the case of Gezi: an ethos of collective work; a spirit of exchange and gift-giving; politeness; and non-violence.

There are names given to the various era's of history: stone age, metal age, space age, an so forth. These names are given according to the changes taking place on earth, trying to understand their reasons and characteristics. For that reason, Leonard W. Cowie and Robert Wolfsan, two historians writing 19th century European history, entitled their books "Years of Nationalism, European History, 1815-1890.'" In fact this name is the most suitable to refer to the 19th century European history. Nationalism, from the end of the 18th century to the 19th centuryand to our day, even though its effect sometimes diminishes, is, especially in Europe and thereafter in all the world countries, the most important power affecting events. Many books have been written on the meaning of this concept. In this study, "Greek nationalism" is focused on and evaluated with regards to its very important and exemplary characteristics, its historical evolution among European nationalisms, and its consequences. As this is a very broad topic, this study focuses only on the influence of Russia and Britain in the creatimı and success of Greek nationalism.Many sorts of typologies are constructed in ord er to understand the specificity and the conditions of the wide range of concepts of *

This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club—Çarşı—in one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as “unusual suspects” in social movements, Çarşı’s role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or “known sequences for acting together,” are key to contentious politics and social movements, Çarşı’s organized and effective performance during the Gezi Park protests shows how previous encounters with the police can be decisive in terms of social upheavals. This study suggests that Çarşı members, who were already accustomed to making ethical judgments on a variety of issues both political and non-political, should be taken as a prominent example of how supporters on terraces and fan clubs facilitate the framing processes described by the social movement literature.

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