Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements, 2015 Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey and Beyond

This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power.

Prelude: Occupy Turkey; Altug Yalcintas 1. Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey; Altug Yalcintas 2. Political Potential of Sarcasm: Cynicism in Civil Resentment; Secil van het Hof 3. Vernacular Utopias: Mimetic Performances as Humour on Gezi Park and Bay?nd?r Street; Utku Balaban 4. Gezi Protests and the LGBT Rights Movement: A Relation in Motion; Ay?e Deniz Ünan 5. "Just a Handful of Looters!": A Comparative Analysis of Government Discourses on the Summer Disorders in the UK and Turkey; Boran Ali Mercan and Erhan Öz?eker Epilogue: Joy is the Laughter of the Resistance; Altug Yalcintas

Utku Balaban, Ankara University, Turkey Secil van het Hof, Akdeniz University, Turkey Boran Ali Mercan, Ankara University, Turkey and University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Erhan Öz?eker, Galatasaray University, Turkey Ay?e Deniz Ünan, University of Essex, UK Altug Yalcintas, Ankara University, Turkey