An Unfinished Grassroots Populism: The Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and Their Aftermath

Hayriye Özen

South European Society and Politics, 2015, vol. 20, issue 4, 533-552

Abstract: Focusing on the Gezi protests, this study addresses two questions: How did a particular struggle against the demolition of a park spontaneously turn into nationwide mass protests? And why was this mobilisation unable to transform itself into a popular counter-hegemonic movement? Drawing on the Laclauian concept of populism, I demonstrate that Gezi mobilised various groups by turning into a symbol of the repressive responses of the hegemonic power to various social demands. This popular mobilisation could not go beyond a conjunctural experience due to its inability to unify heterogeneous protesters and to respond effectively to the counter-strategies of the hegemonic power.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1099258

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