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Zeynep Gambetti probes into “the politics of the body” that has come to the fore with the protests, the kinesis of thousands of bodies which displaced strategy and deliberation, and turned Gezi into some sort of “empty signifier” under which diverse grievances could be subsumed. The resistance thus took the form of a struggle of “disorderly bodies, of those who did not have any dispositif other than their bodies”. What happened throughout June 2013 was novel, Gambetti concludes, as it cannot be explained by conventional political categories. One needs to look into “the extensive interstices” of the politics of the body to begin deciphering it.
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Notes
As defined by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Moufle, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985).
Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou, Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013), 100.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 9.
Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
Ernst Bloch, Natural Right and Human Dignity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), 61.
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Gambetti, Z. (2014). Occupy Gezi as Politics of the Body. In: Özkırımlı, U. (eds) The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey: #occupygezi. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137413789_7
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