Ebook: Creativity and humour in occupy movements: intellectual disobedience in Turkey and beyond

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Prelude: Occupy Turkey -- 1 Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey -- 2 Political Potential of Sarcasm: Cynicism in Civil Resentment -- 3 Vernacular Utopias: Mimetic Performances as Humour in Gezi Park and on Bayındır Street -- 4 Gezi Protests and the LGBT Rights Movement: A Relation in Motion -- 5 'Just a Handful of Looters!': A Comparative Analysis of Government Discourses on the Summer Disorders in the United Kingdom and Turkey -- Epilogue: Joy Is the Laughter of the Resistance -- Name Index -- Subject Index.;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.