Scenes from Gezi Park: Localisation, nationalism and globalisation in Turkey

Abbas, Tahir; Yigit, Ismail Hakki

doi:10.1080/13604813.2014.969070

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“…On the basis of the distribution of the sophistication variable, we identified two groups, high (from 5.6 to 10) and low sophistication (from 0 to 5.5). 10 For values, we followed the Karakitapoğlu and Imamoğlu (2002) adaptation of Schwartz's models (Tables 1 and 2), and we included the items that were conceptually close from the WVS: Tradition-religiosity (tradition is important to this person; follow the customs handed by religion and family); Self-enhancement (importance of being rich; living in secure surroundings; able to have a good time and spoil oneself; importance of being successful and be recognized for achievements; take risks and have an exciting life); Benevolence (importance of being able to do something good for the society); Normative patterning (importance of behaving properly and avoiding doing anything that might be considered as wrong by the society) and Universalism (importance of looking after the environment; care for the nature and save life resources).…”

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“…Voting in national elections has been mandatory since 1982, and electoral turnout is high 3 (Croucher et al 2013;. At the same time, Turkey's ratings on freedom and civil liberties have worsened since 2013 (Freedom House 2016) with citizens witnessing a number of powerful state-led repressive tactics, civil liberties and political rights restrictions, and personal integrity violations (Abbas and Yiğit 2015;Amnesty International 2013). In this context, it is important to investigate the determinants of participation, keeping two considerations in mind: (a) is the Turkish political environment with its electoral authoritarian characteristics determining a different kind of engagement with conventional and unconventional participation compared to western democracies, and (b) are there systematic differences in the predictors of conventional and unconventional participation in this context.…”

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The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

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Capelos

2016

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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This article aims to understand the recent heightened levels of mobilization and unconventional political participation in Turkey. We use a political psychology model that highlights the impact of civic engagement, political sophistication, and values on conventional and unconventional participation. We argue that these factors will be significant predictors of unconventional participation setting it apart from conventional political behaviour, which will be driven by simpler considerations. We expect these qualitative differences in the drivers of conventional and unconventional participation to go beyond age and gender differences and highlight the complexity of political decision-making in Turkey's electoral authoritarian system. We use the 2012 World Value Survey to test our hypotheses, with a nationally representative sample of Turkish citizens. We find significant variations in the role of values, sophistication and levels of civic engagement for conventional and unconventional participation when controlling for age, gender and left-right ideological orientations. Our findings confirm the complex considerations that drive citizens' engagement with politics and can be useful to explaining recent political developments in Turkey involving youth, public mobilization and protests, but also mainstream voting choices.

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The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

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Capelos

2016

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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“…Protesters promoted and applied a practice of deliberative democracy where they tried to 'defend their lifestyles and basic rights of expression, freedom of speech and other democratic rights' (Özkaynak et al 2015, 102). Abbas and Yiğit (2014), focus on the spatial distribution of protesters during the Gezi protests, noticing the presence of at least three social groups, which are environmentalists, non-partisan and anarchists, and pointing out the fact that the second category was the most consistent and composed by people with 'no specific political affiliation or explicitly political objectives' (Abbas and Yiğit 2014, 70). Yörük and Yüksel (2014) second this, arguing that 'the protests should be understood as a popular movement driven by political demands, in which all social classes participated proportionally' (89).…”

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Right to public space and right to democracy: The role of social media in Gezi Park

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Bee

2017

Research and Policy on Turkey

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Gezi Park represents a unique example of a mobilization process focused on the right to public space and democracy in Turkey, where forms of bottom up active citizenship have emerged in order to bring forward demands for environmental and social justice. This paper is focused on the role of social media in triggering the protests and in establishing these two central frames. By conducting a discourse analysis of social media content, we provide an overview of the principal narratives that emerged during the days of the Gezi movement. Our article is centrally focused on the adoption of a connective action framework. We argue that social media in occupygezi played the role of mobilizing agent that brought together a heterogeneous mix of participants and offered the chance to personalize the individual grievances that were expressed and promoted by the participants.

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“…During and after this period the political tension has only but slightly simmered down. For more on this matter see (Milan 2016;Abbas and Yigit 2015).…”

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Relational Ethics: Volunteering and the Responsibilities of the Good Muslim

Kayikci

2019

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This article explores the ways in which female Belgian Muslim volunteers experience responsibility. It argues that responsibility consists of multiple dynamics for the volunteers, for example, the duties that are embedded in the Islamic tradition and the duties that arise from being a good citizen in a liberal/secular context. While these are often emphasized as being contentious binaries—especially for Muslims living in the West—this paper suggests that volunteering allows the Muslim women to bring these worlds together. The ways in which volunteering enables this is by introducing a relational reading of ethics and ethical self-formation. Relationality is highly significant for the female Muslim volunteer. It signifies being in touch with both (non-liberal) Islamic ethics and liberal public norms, even when pursuing a pious lifestyle. Hence, the article explores the ways in which responsibility is actualized in this framework. Finally, the last section interrogates how this idea of responsibility and relationality re-articulates binaries of the good-Muslim and the bad-Muslim.

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Scenes from Gezi Park: Localisation, nationalism and globalisation in Turkey

Cited by 50 publications

References 31 publications

The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

The political psychology of participation in Turkey: civic engagement, basic values, political sophistication and the young

Right to public space and right to democracy: The role of social media in Gezi Park

Relational Ethics: Volunteering and the Responsibilities of the Good Muslim

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