This book offers an analysis of the complex and shifting conditions
of being young as well as the new ways in which young people engage
in politics in Turkey. It is based on a closer examination of young
people’s participation in the Gezi protests in 2013. From the
perspective of cultural sociology, this work presents a nuanced
discussion of the roots and dynamics of young people’s unexpected
engagement and spectacular appearance at the protests, with a
theoretical focus on the concepts of youth and the political, by
exploring questions such as: How did young people experience the
protests? How did they reflect on being young? How did they define
the political? Grounded in ethnographic field research conducted
via in-depth interviews, this book demonstrates that what happened
in the Gezi protests was not a sudden and miraculous transformation
of apolitical youth into political subjects on the streets, as has
often been argued in public discourse. Rather, the protests brought
into view the changes which had already been taking place in young
people’s lives in Turkey as a result of the effects of both local
and global processes, i.e. the influence of authoritarian politics
and social change characterized by religion in everyday life, as
well as the implications of neoliberal policies in the
restructuring of urban spaces.
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