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15th Conference of the European Sociological Association , 2021
As populism escalates and numbers of authoritarian right-wing regimes and antidemocratic practice... more As populism escalates and numbers of authoritarian right-wing regimes and antidemocratic practices rise, politics is becoming more restricted and oppression within daily life is increasing. In addition to this, the COVID-19 pandemic and the strengthening domination over the individual’s body have had a transformative effect over tools of social pressure and legitimization of policies. Meanwhile, social fights taken to the streets have allowed for awareness of racist policies, but the global health crisis has been used to reorganize oppressive and racist discourse, and legitimize antidemocratic decision-making. Parallel to the world, the state of the pandemic in Turkey has set the stage for the increase and variation in tools of oppression over the individual’s daily life. Anti-authoritarian movements intrinsic to university culture throughout Turkish history have been one of the main actors of Turkish politics, and important determiners of the structure, content, means and development of social movements.
The present study is a comparative historical analysis of how the effect of increasing authoritarian practices on individuality and collectivism have influenced social movements. This analysis is conducted on the student protests against the rector appointments at METU and Boğaziçi University, the two largest student protests of the last ten years in Turkey, occurring before and during the pandemic respectively. They are addressed in the light of information gathered from the students’ personal and organized social media posts, mass media and participant observation.
This study claims that what underlies different political, discursive and legal contexts is the dynamics of the allegedly temporal use of authoritarian power during the pandemic. Drawing students’ different actions, the future of social movements and alternative ways of popularisation are brought up for discussion.
3rd National Applied Ethics Summit, Middle East Technical University
28-30.11.2018
III. Ulusal Uygulamalı Etik Kongresi Bildiri Özetleri Kitabı, 2018
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Papers by Ezgi Nilgün Güney
Book Reviews by Ezgi Nilgün Güney
Conference Presentations by Ezgi Nilgün Güney
The present study is a comparative historical analysis of how the effect of increasing authoritarian practices on individuality and collectivism have influenced social movements. This analysis is conducted on the student protests against the rector appointments at METU and Boğaziçi University, the two largest student protests of the last ten years in Turkey, occurring before and during the pandemic respectively. They are addressed in the light of information gathered from the students’ personal and organized social media posts, mass media and participant observation.
This study claims that what underlies different political, discursive and legal contexts is the dynamics of the allegedly temporal use of authoritarian power during the pandemic. Drawing students’ different actions, the future of social movements and alternative ways of popularisation are brought up for discussion.
The present study is a comparative historical analysis of how the effect of increasing authoritarian practices on individuality and collectivism have influenced social movements. This analysis is conducted on the student protests against the rector appointments at METU and Boğaziçi University, the two largest student protests of the last ten years in Turkey, occurring before and during the pandemic respectively. They are addressed in the light of information gathered from the students’ personal and organized social media posts, mass media and participant observation.
This study claims that what underlies different political, discursive and legal contexts is the dynamics of the allegedly temporal use of authoritarian power during the pandemic. Drawing students’ different actions, the future of social movements and alternative ways of popularisation are brought up for discussion.