Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements
Subtitle: Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey and Beyond
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781137473622
Subjects: Intellectuals; Turkey, politics and government; Turkey, intellectual life
Description: This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the Occupy protests that took place at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film makers, novelists, poets, writers, social scientists, and other members of the creative class out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power. Taken together, they illustrate that when the protestors hit the streets in solidarity against the political establishment, perhaps for the first time in the social and political history of Turkey, the non-material creative talent of the people and their will to create became apparent.